Violinist / Conductor
Captivating audiences with his performances, his charisma and his amazing virtuosity, Frédéric Moreau is regularly invited to many festivals, in prestigious concert halls around the world and has become one of the most prolific French artists of his generation with over one hundred concerts as soloist each year.
Frédéric Moreau is a laureate of numerous international competitions and started his solo career at the age of eighteen. He is a first prize winner of violin and chamber music, and is a “3ème cycle" graduate of the most selective soloist programme at the French National Conservatory of Music in Paris (Master and PhD). He has studied violin with masters such as Jean Fournier, Michèle Auclair, Régis Pasquier, Tibor Varga, Yehudi Menuhin...
He is musical director and soloist of the prestigious chamber orchestra "Les Violons de France" for whom he has arranged numerous works placing the virtuoso violin centre stage. With his eclectic tastes, Frédéric Moreau has approached all styles of music and brings to life the violin repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary. In addition, he is a fervent promotor of the music of the most charismatic virtuoso violinist of all time: Niccolò Paganini, whose magic he loves reproduce for the public. Frédéric Moreau is also passionate about chamber music and is a member of the Perpetuo Duo, the Solstice Trio and the Goldoni Quartet. He has played with partners such as Nicholas Angelich, Francois Leleux, Roland Pidoux... His teaching expertise and passion for music are demonstrated by the master-classes he holds around the world.
Frédéric Moreau regularly tours in France, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine... and performs as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Kiev National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ile de France Philharmonic Orchestra...
He has made numerous recordings, including: Beethoven's violin concerto with the Munich Symphony Orchestra; a disc entitled "Hommage à l'Europe" which was nominated for best classical music recording at the "Victoires de la Musique" in 2000; a "Virtuosity" disc (including works by Paganini, Sarasate, Bazzini, Saint-Saëns...); a disc of Vivaldi's Four Seasons; a violin & harp disc (Duo Perpetuo) with Béatrice Guillermin; a DVD with the "Solstice Trio" (Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov).
Frédéric Moreau has the privilege of playing a 1749 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin.
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Tino Maxwell
Piano Coach
Tino Maxwell started his career as a professional pianist since he was a teenager. At 17, he was invited by the Lindblad Travel Co., Ltd. US. to perform on the cruise-ship "Bashan" along the Yangtse River in China. He was formerly the featured pianist of Technique Avant Garde Ltd., and became a sought-after musician at hotels throughout Hong Kong in his early 20s. Mr. Maxwell was formerly the HKSAR representative of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching. Throughout the years, his students have won numerous prizes in local and international piano competitions including Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition, Amigdala International Music Competition, Petrof International Piano Competition, Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klaiverwettbewerb, Chopin Avenue International Piano Competition, Liszt/Chopin Memorial Prizes Hong Kong-International Piano Open Competition, just to name a few.
As an experienced piano educator and musician, Mr. Maxwell has been invited to sit on the jury of various piano open competitions. He was also invited by the Education University of Hong Kong to be one of the speakers for the Distinguished Musicians' Series. An article on his research into piano practice was published in the ISATT Newsletter.
Mr. Maxwell completed both his Master of Arts Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Music Teaching with distinction at the University of Reading. He was not only the first Hong Kong student attaining distinction in the history of the course, but also the inaugural recipient of the Norman Morris scholarship. Highly complemented by the renowned British music educator and writer, Dr. Susan Hallam, his dissertation aims to investigate the effects of the metacognitive knowledge of practising strategies on pupil musicians practising behaviours and practice outcomes within the context of private piano lessons. Mr. Maxwell received his piano tuition from Huang Ruo Mei and his mentor, Nancy Loo. Throughout his studies in higher education, he has benefited from the tutelage of Dr. Nicholas Bannan, Dr. Gordon Cox, Norman Morris and Nils Franke. Mr. Maxwell is currently a piano tutor at the Education University of Hong Kong and Maestro Art School of Music.