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Iiria Sauri
Born in Finland , she was a child of an literary and artistic family (mother: Outi Pennanen, journalist and painter, grand aunt: Eila Pennanen famous finnish writer (Eila Pennanen – Wikipedia) ,Jarno Pennanen; poet and writer, ,Ain-Elisabeth Pennanen,writer..). very early Iiria Sauri showed her desire to be creative and to express. The first appearance in the Finnish Radio was at age of 6 years . As a child she played in several radio and tv dramas. The music enters to her life in a softly manner with piano lessons at age of 9, but became very serious with the discovery of clarinet and so she finnished her studies in Sibelius Lyseum in Helsinki. The college years were rich in many ways; Iiria lstudies the clarinet with Sven Lavela and made the first experiences in symphonic orchestra with the conductor Petri Sakari. Music became Iiria’s vocation and she is admitted to Sibelius Academy (Sibelius-Akatemia - Etusivu) in 1988, to study with Kari Kriikku (Kari Kriikku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). With several master classes : Karl Leister, (Karl Leister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Claude Faucomprez and John Mc Caw comes the fascination for “central european” clarinet virtuosity and the central Europe attracted her with force. But the competition and lack of fellowship between the musicians worries and disturb the young musician.Then comes the encounter with the Finnish Orfeo group, and it is explosive. First the Orfeo group playes under conducting of Andreas Peer-Kähler in Dornach (Switzerland). They played The 6th symphony of Jean Sibelius and Gustav Mahler’s Kinder TotenLieder in the massif house of Goetheanum (http://www.goetheanum.org) Then ,In 1989 ,the Orfeo group (There is not 'passaggio': Finnish Bass-Baritone Juha Uusitalo musical extreme talks tone Bill Kenny training, personal singing and his philosophy. (BK)) went to Croatia (the ex. - Yugoslavia) to train the sound, the ground of the sound and the philosophy of musical thought.
After two months of training under the adriatic sun the Finnish group breaks away and Iiria Sauri decides to go to France and she is admitted to study the clarinet with Christian Peignier, in the conservatory of Besançon. The cultural shock is huge between finnish and french way of music making. She obtains the gold medal in 1993, but the chamber music is the closest to her wich brings the success in the international Chamber Music competition in Illzach ( France ) with the Paul Arma clarinet quartett . . Iiria is a very active chamber musician : reed quartett, duos.. She needs the other one to create, and to interpret. The pure performance and virtuosity freezes the music. Without emotion the art does not exist. With the French state diploma she teaches the clarinet and conducts in the east of France (Franche-Comté). In 1998, the experience with Hausacher Kammer -Orkester in Germany is really strong. Playing The concertino of C. M. von Weber she is amazed by the warm of the german public .With Thomas Friedli’s humanity as a clarinet teacher and his advices ( Geneve, Switzerland) the doubts are gone and she’s again very productive chamber musician : the french-finnish-belgium Hisis-trio, the Nelia reed quartett, the Triazzo reedtrio. With the Compagnie du Colibri (Besançon, France ) she plays musical theater for children ( Grenier du Temps perdu 2006, Les soeurs Tara), and in that period she gives birth to two boys: Jalmar and Aksel . Iiria Sauri goes west ( of France!!)..as a french civil servant, working in the music schools of Quimperlé and Lannion (Britanny, France ) and playing chamber music. The love and the pride for the finnish music is central in her life. In Salon Musicora 2003 Paris ( France) she conducts 'Harri Wessmann’s Kälviä (Finland), World premiere in France. In 2005 she obtains in Academy Sibelius ( Helsinki, Finland) the Master in performing Arts, clarinet. In 2006, the encounter with Narcis Llongueres (Catalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) the Catalan oboist is a real electroshock. They form a very sensitive and artistic duo. She plays also in HBBCE (Helsinki-Breihz-Barcelona Creative Ensemble).
Narcis Llongueres
Born in Catalonia (Barcelona, 1955) in a family of pedagogues and artists: his grandfather, Joan Llongueres (1880-1953) (www.joanllongueres.com) was a poet and the introducer of the Jacques Dalcroze method (www.dalcroze.ch) in Catalogne. His grandmother was Pompeu Fabra’s niece (Pompeu Fabra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), grammarian, author of the reform of the modern Catalan. His father, Josep Jordi Llongueres (1911-1981) was a musician, pedagogue and director of a school in Barcelona. All these antecedents have influenced on the personality of Narcis Llongueres, who along his career has become interested in every form of culture.
After having studied in the “Acadèmia de Musica de Barcelona”, he pursues his studies of oboe in the Conservatori Superior de Musica of Barcelona obtaining his degree and, at the same time studies of architecture for two years, without finishing them. In this period he is very interested in the music of jazz: he plays piano in most of the jazz clubs of Barcelona. Later on he decides to dedicate to the oboe in a serious way, and because of that he fixes his residence in London for three years where he studies with Valerie Darke, Michael Windfield and also with Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli). Afterwards he studies for two years in France with Michel Giot. In this period he plays in the Orchestra Perpignan Catalogne (Daniel Tosi) and the Orchestre du Théatre Lyrique du midi (Béziers). In 1989 he becomes oboe solo of the Orchestra Simfonica del Vallès (Barcelona) (http://www.osvalles.com) for nine years, and in 1998 oboe solo of the Orchestra Barcelona Sinfonietta (VIRTÈLIA Escola de Música - Institució Cultural del CIC). He collaborates very often with the National Orchestra of Chamber of Andorra (http://www.onca.ad) and other orchestras (Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona i National de Catalunya, Orquesta de Màlaga, et cetera...). During this period he has had the opportunity to play with many artists (Mirella Freni, Josep Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, John Williams, Joaquin Achucarro, Barbara Hendricks, Igor Oistrach, Tete Montoliu, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Lawrence Foster, Franz Paul Decker, Pierre Cao, John Georgiadis, Yves Prin, Antoni Ros Marbà, etc).
In the field of chamber music he has played a lot in quintet (Quintet Hammenbech, Zauberquintett) carrying out many concerts and also recordings.
As a pedagogue he has been teaching at Virtèlia Escola de Musica and the Center of Educacio Musical Diaula, both in Barcelona.
From 2004 he lives in Brittany (France) where he attempts to continue his artistic itinerary. With musicians established in Bretagne he creates the group HBBCE (Helsinki-Breizh-Barcelona Creative Ensemble), formation open to every type of artistic expression. It is in 2007 that, with Iiria Sauri plays in duo (oboe and clarinet) in Bretagne and in Catalonia (International Festival of Cadaqués) (VIRTÈLIA Escola de Música - Institució Cultural del CIC): a very enriching partnership grows among them.
At present he is a teacher in the Schools of Music of “Lannion” , “Lamballe” (Lamballe communaute - Ecole de Musique) and the Conservatoire of Quimper (Bretagne, France).
Narcis Llongueres plays oboes, oboe d’amore and English horn of the house of Lorée (Paris) (http://www.loree-paris.com)
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