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Isang Yun Competition
The ISANGYUN Competition is an international music competition, held annually in Tongyeong, South Korea. It commemorates Isang Yun (1917–1995), a Korean composer who was born in Tongyeong and later settled in Germany. The competition was established in 2003 as the Gyeongnam International Music Competition, and renamed to ISANGYUN Competition in 2008. It consists of a three-year "cycle", where each year, or "edition", consists of a different instrument in the rotation: cello, piano, and violin. History The competition has been organized by local governments and media companies in South Korea: Gyeongnam Province, the City of Tongyeong and MBC Gyeongnam. To remember Isang Yun, in 2003, the Governor of Gyeongnam Province requested the Tongyeong International Music Festival (통영국제음악제) Foundation to plan and organize an international competition. The foundation, initially chaired by Seong-Yawng Park, created a general prospectus of an annual instrumental competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tongyeong
Tongyeong (; ) is a coastal Administrative divisions of South Korea, city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It has an area of and in 2010, a population of 139,869 people. It is divided into 1 eup (town), 6 myeon (township) and 11 dong (neighborhood). Chungmu city and Tongyeong county were reunited in 1995, creating Tongyeong as it is known today. It consists of Goseong County, South Gyeongsang, Goseong Peninsula, Hansando, , and other islets. It was formerly known as Chungmu, after the posthumous name of Admiral Yi Sun-sin. The name Tongyeong means "command post" and is itself associated with Admiral Yi, as it refers to his principal base that was located on nearby Hansan Island. Notable people Notable people associated with the city include Yi Sun-sin, whose headquarters were located there, and Yun Isang, a noted 20th-century composer. Chungmu Halmae, or "Chungmu Grandmother", is a mythical old woman from Chungmu who gave her name to Chungmu Halmae Kimbap, a common Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lluis Claret
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Thinat
Françoise Thinat (born in 1934) in Gien (Loiret), is a French classical pianist. She presides over the Orléans International Piano Competition, which she founded in 1994 and teaches at the École normale de musique de Paris. Biography First prize in interpretation in the classes of Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier at the Conservatoire de Paris, Thinat has also taken interpretation courses from Marguerite Long, Georges Tzipine, Louis Fourestier and Guido Agosti at Siena. She has performed in concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan and Korea, and has given interpretation courses abroad. Thinat is the founder of the Orléans International Piano Competition in 1994. This internationally renowned biennial competition showcases the piano heritage from the 20th century to the present day. Supported by many patronages and cultural associations, this competition has revealed young artists. For several decades, she has also directed the concert series entitled ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Tawaststjerna
Erik Werner Tawaststjerna (10 October 1916 – 22 January 1993) was a Finnish musicologist who also worked as a pianist, pedagogue, and critic. He is remembered as a significant biographer of Jean Sibelius. Biography Erik Werner Tawaststjerna was born in Mikkeli, Grand Duchy of Finland in 1916. His piano studies were with Ilmari Hannikainen, K. Bernhard, Heinrich Leygraf, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alfred Cortot and Jules Gentil. His concert career began in 1943, and was confined to Scandinavia, Vienna and the Soviet Union, after which he became a private teacher. He held posts in the Press and Cultural Affairs Department of the Foreign Ministry of Finland from 1948 to 1960. His doctoral dissertation from the University of Helsinki in 1960 was on the piano works of Jean Sibelius; he became Professor of Musicology there from 1960 to 1983. His magnum opus was his biography of Sibelius, who had been a personal friend of his. It used a wealth of hitherto unavailable personal material i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Rose
Jerome Rose is an American pianist and educator. He has served on the faculty of the Mannes School of Music and has given masterclasses. Career Rose made his concert debut at the age of 15 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna and received the gold medal at the 1961 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Rose graduated from Mannes College and the Juilliard School of Music, and later pursued further studies with Leonard Shure and Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro Music School. Rose has appeared with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, and London Philharmonic, performing under conductors such as Sir Georg Solti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. His recordings of works by composers such as Liszt, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, and Brahms have received distinctions including the Grand Prix du Disque from the Liszt Society of Budapest and the Franz Liszt Medal from Hungary's Ministry of Culture. In 1999, Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Tong-il
Han Tong-il (; December 4, 1941 – December 29, 2024) was a South Korean pianist. Background Han was born in Kankō (now Hamhung, North Korea), Korea, Empire of Japan. He began learning the piano and musical composition from his father at the age of 4. He fled south during the Korean War, ending up in Seoul. He was a guest on the classic American game show, '' I've Got a Secret'', hosted by Steve Allen. Han's secret was that, as a young child, he was discovered by Staff Sergeant JJ "Mike" Egan during the Korean War, and General Samuel E. Anderson arranged a tour at the US bases in Japan where they raised money for the young child. Han died on December 29, 2024, at the age of 83. Musical career Han left South Korea on June 1, 1954. He went to the US with General Anderson to attend Juilliard, where his teachers included Rosina Lhévinne. In 1965, at 23, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition. Han had performed with many of the finest orchestras around the world, amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Dae-jin (pianist)
Daejin Kim is a South Korean pianist, an alumnus of the Juilliard School. He won the first prize in the 6th Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition - which is called Cleveland Competition today, in 1985. Kim is a professor of piano and the president of the Korea National University of Arts, and the music director of the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra. Early performances In 1986, Kim made his New York debut and received a favorable review from the critic for ''The New York Times'' who wrote that "Daejin Kim demonstrated all the accouterments necessary for a successful solo career. Kim has what seems to be a foolproof technique and his careful choice of music showed a musician interested in subtleties, not just the usual frontal assaults of bravura repertory. This is a fine young musician, one with the physical means to express his considerable musical intelligence." In 1987, he was invited to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra and since then his international career ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Hellwig
Klaus Hellwig (born 3 August 1941) is a German pianist and academic teacher. Life and career Born in Essen,Axel Schniederjürgen (publisher): ''Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch''. 5th edition de Gruyter, 2006, Hellwig studied with Detlef Kraus in Essen and Pierre Sancan in Paris as well as in master classes with Guido Agosti and Wilhelm Kempff and has won prizes at international competitions. He has performed as a soloist worldwide, among others in Europe, the US, Brazil, Australia and Asia with renowned orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarica and the Krakauer Philharmonie. As chamber musician, he founded the "Berlin Trio" with Christiane Edinger and Lluís Claret, and performed together among others with the wind players of the Berliner Philharmonic, the Philharmonischen Streichoktett Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Ozim
Igor Ozim (9 May 1931 – 23 March 2024) was a Slovenian classical violinist and Pedagogy, pedagogue. He was based in Salzburg, Austria. Life and career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At age 5, he started private lessons with , a former student of Otakar Ševčík, at the Academy of Music, Ljubljana. He entered Pfeifer's class at the Academy when he was 8.Margaret Campbell, ''The Great Violinists'' Retrieved 28 September 2015 In 1949 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. He spent three months at the Royal College of Music learning the Edward Elgar, Elgar Violin Concerto (Elgar), Violin Concerto in B minor under one of its greatest exponents, Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ik-Hwan Bae
Ik-Hwan Bae (November 19, 1956 – July 24, 2014) was a South Korean-born American concert violinist. A native of Seoul, he made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. He attended New York City's prestigious High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1975. While there, Bae also studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard's Pre-School. He went on to graduate from Juilliard four years later. His performances in recitals and concerto concerts took him to most of the major cities in Europe, Asia and the United States. Career Bae received second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1985 and also was a prize winner at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1984. In 1986, he was a recipient of the Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. As an enthusiastic participant in many of the world's best chamber music festivals, he traveled everywhere from Seoul to Alaska. He was an artistic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saschko Gawriloff
Saschko Gawriloff (born October 20, 1929) is a German violinist and violin teacher of Bulgarian descent. Life Gawriloff was born in Leipzig and received his first violin lessons from his father Yordan Gavriloff, who was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He then studied with Walther Davisson, Gustav Havemann, and Martin Kovacz, the last of whom had been a pupil of David Oistrakh and Jenő Hubay. After completing his formal education, Gawriloff won many international awards for his performances, including a prize at the Paganini Competition and the Kulturförderpreis of the City of Nuremberg. At various times, he has served as concertmaster with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Frankfurt Opera, and the Hamburg Symphony. As a soloist, Gawriloff has played with many prestigious orchestras around the world, led by such conductors as Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnányi, Eliahu Inbal, Michael Gielen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
(born July 28, 1942 in Tokyo) is a world renowned Japanese cellist. In an international career which began in 1954, Tsutsumi has performed and recorded all of the principal standard works in the cello repertoire, both solo and concerto. He has appeared as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C.. Tsutsumi won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest. Tsutsumi was awarded the Artist Diploma in Instrumental Performance at Indiana University in 1965. He was Visiting Professor and Resident Artist at University of Western Ontario from 1967 to 1984 and Professor of Cello at Indiana University from 1988 to 2006. He was President of Toho Gakuen School of Music from 2004 to 2014. Education Tsutsumi’s father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
