Fiammetta Tarli plays regularly all over Europe, both as a soloist and in different chamber music groups, including Ofer Falk (former first violin of the Allegri Quartet), Rohan De Saram (former cellist of the Arditti Quartet), David Cohen, Roger Chase, conductors Muhai Tang, Stanislav Oushev, Robert Bokor, Massimiliano Caldi, and Martin Georgiev, as well as her husband Ivo Varbanov (two pianos – four hands). Composers Silvina Milstein and Martin...
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Henry MillerFiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov, pianists and creative partners in life and work, have banded together with a dedicated team of recording and design professionals to launch ICSM Records, a company with impressively high aspirations: “Independent Creative Sound and Music (ICSM) Records—made by musicians for musicians—is committed to uncompromising quality in every aspect...
Learn MoreBrahms: Complete waltzes for four hands CD review – sparkle and swing (4/5 stars) Fiammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov (piano) (ICSM) ‘A dizzying experience’: FIammetta Tarli and Ivo Varbanov. Stephen Pritchard Sunday 30 November 2014 00.05 GMT The Observer You can have too much of a good thing sometimes. Brahms’s two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes (love...
Learn MoreAugust 15, 2014 by Norman Lebrecht Husband and wife pianists Ivo Varbanov and Fiammetta Tarli are starting a new record label next month. We asked them to explain the USP of ICSM Records. Fiamma, being Italian, muttered something about fighting the mafia. Ivo objects to the over-production that takes place on major labels. We asked them to talk it through. So they...
Learn MoreCulture – 13 June 2014 by Ekaterina Docheva The English Connection Over the last 25 years a lot of changes have taken place in the musical life in the country. The negative changes related at the beginning with the impoverishment of the country and later on with the continued unreasonable distribution of the budget funds which causes damage mostly to the...
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