The Time for Peace Film and Music Awards Ceremony Chef, Jean André Charial, a two-star Michelin chef and owner of L'Oustaù de Baumanière in Les Baux de Provence, draws all attention of british gastronomes.
Coming from the outskirts of Iceland, the Hjaltalin who are being considered as nominees for next year’s Time for Peace Song Award for “The Trees Don't Like the Smoke”, will perform at this year’s Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony and dinner concert. A nine-piece band, one isn’t quite sure whether to call Hjaltalin a small orchestra, a mutated and overgrown rock band, or something else. This odd group of instrumentalists form an allegiance which already has a solid fan base among critics and listeners in Iceland. Hjaltalin was founded in 2006 and it has been storming the Icelandic music scene ever since. An eclectic and wonderfully strange composition of instruments creates the exciting sound of Hjaltalin. Besides the regular guitar, bass, and drums, the band also includes a piano, accordion, bassoon, clarinet, cello, and a violin. On top lilt the voices of Högni and Sigga. Altogether the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. One might think that rare instruments such as a bassoon and clarinet were added for the sake of rendering the songs more exotic - or that adding a few notes to might provide some quaint decorations. Nothing could be further from the truth. The brass and string instruments sync to create a wall of sound that is perfect for the baroque-like pop songs of Hjaltalin. Here is the future.
The young songwriter Alan Pownall will sing a few songs at this year’s Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony and dinner concert. Alan Pownall is an up-and-coming acoustic singer-songwriter, on the Laura Marling / Beans On Toast / Kate Nash circuit. Having played only a handful of shows at London club nights such as Young and Lost, Chess Club, Mi7 and Skip Skip Jump, his song craft and performances have proved to be a force to behold. Since signing his publishing deal with Global, Alan has been working hard on new material and has toured the UK with Adele, who requested that he support her after hearing his song "Colourful Day", on myspace. He continues to attract A&R interest from UK labels and will be playing many festivals across the UK this summer.
Monday, May 4, 2008
The young talented British cellist Natalie Clein will perform some Jean Sebastian Bach pieces at this year’s Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony. Natalie Clein’s exceptional musicality has earned her a number of prestigious prizes including the Classical Brit Award for Young British Performer of 2005 and the Ingrid zu Solms Cultur Preis at the 2003 Kronberg Academie. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year (aged 16) in 1994 and in the same year was the first ever British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. She was awarded “the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Scholarship” by the Royal College of Music before completing her studies with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. In the 2007/08 season, Natalie will tour Australia and New Zealand, performing the Elgar Cello Concerto with Martin Brabbins and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and with Pietari Inkinen and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She will also give concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Northen Sinfonia amongst others, as well as recitals and chamber music throughout the UK. She made her concerto debut at the BBC Proms in August 1997, performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with Sir Roger Norrington and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and has since appeared in venues throughout the UK such as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Bridgewater Hall and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. She has performed as a soloist with most of the UK’s major orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, The Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, Hallé and BBC orchestras with conductors such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Gennardi Rozhdestvensky, Sir Andrew Davis, Heinrich Schiff, Sir Neville Marriner, and Paul Daniel.
Her international career continues to gain momentum with concerts in the United States, Canada, South America, Germany, Austria and Spain. Her debut concerts with the Montreal Symphony and Mark Wigglesworth received critical acclaim as did her Argentinean debut at the Teatro Colon with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. Natalie is in great demand as a recitalist and appears every year at London’s Wigmore Hall. Next season she will perform there several times as part of Stephen Kovacevich’s residency. She has given recitals in Tokyo, Seoul, New York (Lincoln Center) and Vienna and Salzburg. She is a passionate chamber musician and each summer takes part in many of the world’s great international festivals, including Cheltenham, Mostly Mozart (London), City of London, Bath, Oxford, Australia, Canada (Vancouver Festival), France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Austria. Besides her regular recital partners - Julius Drake, Kathy Stott and Katya Apekisheva - her chamber music collaborators have included Martha Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Melvyn Tan, Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt, Itamar Golan, Wayne Marshall, Steven Isserlis, clarinetists Michael Collins, Sharon Kam and Emma Johnson, oboist Nick Daniel and violinists Priya Mitchell, Pekka Kuusisto and Isabelle Faust. She is also regularly invited to perform with the Belcea, Jerusalem and Takacs quartets as well as the Nash Ensemble.
Natalie records exclusively for EMI Classics. Her debut recording, a recital disc with both Brahms Cello Sonatas and Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata with Charles Owen was released in October 2004. She has since released ‘The Romantic Cello’ with Charles Owen, which includes Rachmaninov’s Sonata and Chopin’s Sonata and Polonaise. Her latest disc of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vernon Handley, CBE conducting was released in September 2007.
Natalie Clein plays on the “Simpson” Guadagnini cello (1777).*
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The program magazine of this year’s Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony and dinner-concert is introduced by Dan Glickman, Chairman and chief Executive Officer of Motion Picture Association of America.
Monday, Apr. 21, 2008
Jean André Charial, a two-star Michelin chef and owner of L'Oustaù de Baumanière in Les Baux de Provence will be the chef of this year‚s Time for Peace Film & Music Awards dinner. L'Oustaù de Baumanière is one of the most magnificent hotels in Europe. Jean André Charial who also has an exceptional wine cellar, produces a wine called L'Affectif that will be served during the four-course dinner.
Monday, Apr. 21, 2008
The Time for Peace Film & Music Awards works with All Nippon Airways (ANA), because the environment is the key to what ANA does, as they recognize that the meaningful continuation of its activities and their sustainable growth depend on it. ANA is thus replacing its fleet with the most efficient aircraft available today, and is investing in tomorrow‚s technology in the shape of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Mitsubishi Regional Jet. With fewer emissions, less noise and less fuel-burning it will be the most environmentally friendly aircraft in their class when it enters the service. Beyond technology, ANA also tries to give back to the communities it serves, so in Japan and around the world, All Nippon Airways works with NGOs on reforestation and coral protection projects, and is committed to cooperating with its Star Alliance partners on environmental activities covering the entire planet. For the past five years, All Nippon Airways has also run an environmental picture-book competition - to raise awareness of environmental issues in a way that appeals to all ages - and will continue to promote it across all the regions to where it flies. In Japanese, we call our environmental efforts “Aozora”, which means “Blue Skies”, and with an eye on the future All Nippon Airways is determined to explore all avenues to make the skies bluer.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
Sponsored by Aeroflot, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, the widow of the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, will fly from St. Petersburg to London to attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony. Vishnevskaya is nominated for this year's Time for Peace European Actress Award for her outstanding performance as Alexandra Nikolaevna in Alexandra, the latest film by Alexander Sokurov.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
Sponsored by Aeroflot, renowned Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov will fly with Producer and Film music composer Andrey Sigle from St. Petersburg to London to attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony. Sokurov is nominated for this year's Time for Peace European Film Award for his brilliant and powerful direction of Alexandra.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
Sponsored by All Nippon Airways, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase will fly with her family from Tokyo to London to attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony. Kawase is nominated for this year's Time for Peace Asian Film Award for her beautiful direction of Mogari No Mori (The Mourning Forest).
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
Irish filmmaker John Carney will fly from Dublin to London to attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony. John Carney is the director of Once, nominated for this year's Time for Peace European Film Award.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton will attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards to take place in London on May 12. Michael Winterbottom is nominated for the Time for Peace Film Award for his brilliant directing of The Mighty Heart, an adaptation of Marianne Pearl's memoir. The Mighty Heart is a detailed account of the search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
The ambassadors of Argentina, Armenia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, Europe, India, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom to the United Nations and who are members of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards committee jury will fly from Geneva to London to attend this year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards ceremony and dinner-concert.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
This year's Time for Peace Film & Music Awards Ceremony and dinner-concert will take place on 12 May, at the prestigious five stars Hotel Landmark. The Hotel Landmark is a new Leading Hotel of the Word.
Monday, Apr. 14, 2008
The breathtaking Champagne Krug Grande Cuvée is the official champagne of this year’s cocktail reception of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards Ceremony to take place in the Harewood Room of the Landmark Hotel.