Mr Gabriel Prynn – Curriculum Vitae

Current address: Ramlerstr. 19a, 13355 Berlin, Germany

E-mail: gabrielprynn@yahoo.com Tel: +49 30 4660 8662
Handy: 0177 49 77 494

Civil status: Single (without children) Date of birth: 14/2/73

Nationality: Canadian and British

Languages spoken: Bilingual English/French; intermediate level German;

notions of Spanish and Japanese

Professional overview:

• Founder and permanent member of the Trio Fibonacci piano trio since
1998 (repertoire: Classical to the present day; international tours and
recordings; internationally recognised authority on contemporary
repertoire for the medium)

• Permanent cellist of the new music group Ensemble Alternance in Paris

• Guest musician with contemporary music ensembles in Canada and

Germany

• Extensive teaching and coaching experience (see below)

Education and studies in cello:

1984-1991 – Kidbrooke Comprehensive School, London, UK; 8 GCSE’s and 3

A-levels (in Music, English and Sociology)

1991-1994 – University of Manchester, UK (Bachelor of Music, Upper

Second; composition studies with John Casken)

1991-1995 – Royal Northern College of Music, UK (Diploma in performance);

teacher: Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo String Quartet

1995-1996 – University of Hartford, Connecticut, and New York, USA;

teacher: David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet

1996-1998 – Private classes with Daniel Domb, then Principal Cello of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Masterclasses: Janos Starker, Yuli Turovsky, Frances Marie Uitti

Professional performances as cello soloist, as guest musician and as
member of Trio Fibonacci (highlights):

• Tour of England, 1999 (Sussex University; Holywell Room, Oxford; University

of Southampton; BMIC, London)
• South American tour, 2000 (Buenos Aires; Performance for Brazilian national
TV, Curitiba, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2000 & 2006)
• South American tour, 2001 (São Paulo, Brazil; Interview and performance for
Brazilian TV, Curitiba, Brazil; São Leopaldo, Brazil; Porto Alegre, Brazil;
Televised performance, Brasília, Brazil; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Rosario,
Argentina; Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Merkin Hall, New York, USA (2002)
• Tour in China and Japan, 2002 (Canadian Embassy, Beijing; Conservatory of
China, Beijing; University of Ningbo, near Shanghai; Shanghai Conservatory;
Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing; Central Conservatory, Beijing;
Conservatory of Sechuan, Chengdu, China; Teiarakoto Recital Hall, Tokyo,
Japan)
• Musica Strasbourg, France (2002)
• Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm, Sweden (2002)
• Japan Tour 2003 (Nagoya College of Music; Chubu University, Aichi
Prefecture; University of Nagoya; Huso Cultural Centre, Huso, Aichi
Prefecture; Conference, Irino Foundation, Tokyo; Institut franco-japonais,
Tokyo; Daikanyama Classics, Tokyo)
• Aldeburgh Festival, UK (2003 & 2005)
• XIII Festival Música Contemporánea Chilena, Chile (2003)
• Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal (ensemble-in-residence, 2004-
2007)
• Concert series in Granada and Seville, Spain (2004)
• Tour of ex-Yugoslavia, 2004 (Belgrade, Podgorica, Montenegro, Prishtina)
• Ars Musica Festival, Belgium (2004 & 2005)
• Ultraschall Festival, Berlin, Germany (2005)
• Muziegebouw an 't Ij, Amsterdam, Holland (2005)
• Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK (2005)
• Cutting Edge concert series, The Warehouse, London, UK (2005)
• Flanders Festival, Belgium (2005 & 2006)
• Guest performer with ensemble musikFabrik, Berlin (2006)
• Quincena Musical Festival, San Sebastián, Spain (2006)
• Cambridge Summer Music Festival, UK (2007)
• Centro Candiani, Venice, Italy (2007)
• Festival traiettorie’07, Parma, Italy (2007)
• Guest performer with Ensemble Alternance (Paris), in association with IRCAM
and Radio-France (2008)
• Tour in South Africa (2008)
• Concert at the Sala Casella, Rome (2008)
Recordings (solos, duos and piano trios)

• CD recording of Reflexos for piano trio by Guilherme Bauer (Rio Arte, Brazil,
2000)
• CD devoted to music of British composer Jonathan Harvey (Atma Records,
Canada 2001) - In reference to the recording of Advaya for cello and
electronics, which appears on the CD, British critic Steve Lomas wrote: “The
brilliant performance of Gabriel Prynn more than holds its own against that of
Pierre Strauch on an Ensemble InterContemporain CD of Harvey’s music.”
• CD recording of Espaços Imaginários for piano trio by Harry Crowl (Rio Arte,
Brazil, 2003)
• CD devoted to the music of Belgian composer Denis Bosse (Cyprès, Belgium,
2005)
• CD of previously unrecorded solo and trio works by James Clarke, Gerald
Barry and Michael Finnissy (NMC, UK, 2005)
• CD recording of Piano Trio by Benoît Mernier (Cyprès, Belgium, 2006)
• Trio Fibonacci performances have been televised in Canada, Brazil and China,
and their concerts have been broadcast on numerous occasions by Radio-
Canada and CBC Radio

Teaching experience
Mr Prynn has maintained a private cello studio since 1999. He has also given
masterclasses, coached chamber music, and given workshops for composition and
instrumental students at the following institutions:
• University of Oxford, UK (2000)
• Erdberg Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2001)
• Hanns Eisler Hochschule, Berlin (2001)
• Universities of Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo, Brazil (2001)
• Conservatory of Cheng Du, China (2002)
• Conservatory of Nagoya, Japan (2003)
• Conservatory of Belgrade, Serbia (2004)
• Residency at Young Composers Program, University of Ottawa (2004)
• Royal Academy of Music, London (2005)
• University of Curitiba, Brazil (2007) – gave masterclasses and directed
rehearsals of university orchestra cello section
• Centro Candiani, Venice, Italy (2007)
• Short-term residency at University of Calgary, Canada (2007)
• University of Western Ontario, Canada (2007)
• University of British Columbia, Canada (2007)
• Ecole normale de Musique, Paris (2008)
• University of South Africa and in South African townships (2008)
• Collège Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Canada (2009)
Grants and awards

1995 – Scholarship from University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, for studies

with David Finckel, Emerson String Quartet

1996 – Awards from the King Edward VII Foundation (UK) and D.A.A.D
(Germany)

1996 – Winner, Paranov Concerto Competition, Connecticut, USA

1998-2005 – Grants for exploration of new repertoire and for artistic

development from the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et
des lettres du Québec

Other work experience: Manager of a music ensemble in Canada for seven

years, involved daily work in both English and French, including translating
documents, preparing grant applications in both languages, tour planning
and promotion in both languages, handling budgets. I am fully computer
literate. Taught English for a year at the English Academy in Brussels.

Hobbies/interests: Dancing tango, yoga, history, architecture, nature, health,

the environment, literature, cinema, the arts in general, travelling, other
cultures