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Diana Tishchenko
Diana Tishchenko (; born 1990) is a Ukrainian born classical violinist and the winner of the International Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris 2018. Named "Rising Star" by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in 2020, she has performed at the leading concert halls of Europe. Career Born in Simferopol on the Crimean Peninsula, Tishchenko started playing the violin with her aunt at the age of 6, making her debut performance with the Crimean Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexey Gulianitzky at the age of 8, playing a violin concerto by Charles Auguste de Bériot, Charles Beriot. She studied further at the Lysenko Specialized Music School in Kyiv with Tamara Mukhina. She played in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra from age 18, later serving as the orchestra's youngest concertmaster, until 2013, collaborating with conductors such as Colin Davis, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Antonio Pappano and Daniele Gatti. She achieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philharmonie De Paris
The Philharmonie de Paris () () is a complex of concert halls in Paris, France. The buildings also house exhibition spaces and rehearsal rooms. The main buildings are all located in the Parc de la Villette at the northeastern edge of Paris in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, 19th arrondissement. At the core of this set of spaces is the symphonic concert hall of 2,400 seats designed by Jean Nouvel and opened in January 2015. Its construction had been postponed for about twenty years to complete the current musical institution la Cité de la Musique designed by Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995. Mainly dedicated to symphonic concerts, the Philharmonie de Paris also presents other forms of music such as jazz and world music. Opening ceremony The hall opened on 14 January 2015, with a performance by the Orchestre de Paris of Faure's Requiem, conducted by Paavo Järvi, played to honour the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, ''Charlie Hebdo'' shootings which had taken pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Kuschnir
Boris Kuschnir (born 1948) is a Soviet Austrian violinist Background and early life Born in Kiev in 1948, he studied violin with at the Moscow Conservatoire and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet. Career His many encounters with Dmitri Shostakovich (working on his last quartets) and David Oistrakh, with whom he also studied, had a lasting influence on his artistic development. His career started in 1969 when he was one of the three winners of the ''Allunions-Competition'' in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad where, in the final, he performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the ''Leningrad Symphony Orchestra'' under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov. In 1970 he founded the Moscow String Quartet and remained a member until 1979. In 1982 he became an Austrian citizen and was the first concertmaster of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Bruckner Orchestra in Linz until 1983. He was appointed professor at the Konservatorium Wien University in 1984 and became a distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of SARS-CoV-2, the virus were published on 31 December 2019, though the Origin of SARS-CoV-2, first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier. The pandemic led to COVID-19 recession, a global economic recession, 2021–2023 inflation surge, a sustained rise in global inflation for the first time since the 1970s, and 2021–2023 global supply chain crisis, a global supply chain crisis. The World Health Organization declared the virus a State of emergency, global state of emergency from March 2020 to May 2023. Several anti-government protest, demonstrations and rebellion, revolts occurred in the early 2020s, including a continuation of those in 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulturpalast
The Kulturpalast Dresden () is a modernist building built by Wolfgang Hänsch during the era of the German Democratic Republic. It was the largest multi-purpose hall in Dresden when it opened in 1969, and was used for concerts, dances, conferences and other events. The building underwent several years of reconstruction beginning in 2012 and opened with a new concert hall in April 2017. Unlike the other buildings in the Altmarkt square, the Kulturpalast is designed in the unadorned International Style; it is considered a sister building to the now-demolished Palast der Republik in Berlin. It is a stand-alone building with a floorspace of around , faces Wilsdruffer Straße, and forms the second part of the Altmarkt square. Located east of Schloßstraße and southwest of nearby Neumarkt, which has been undergoing a reconstruction project since 2005, it lies in the center of the historic old town, which was largely destroyed during the firebombing of Dresden on 13 February 1945. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gewandhaus
Gewandhaus () is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. History The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'') The first concert hall was constructed in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe inside the ''Gewandhaus'', a building used by cloth (garment) merchants. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (The Emperor Concerto) premiered here in 1811. Felix Mendelssohn is particularly associated with the first Gewandhaus, of which he was director from 1835. Other well-known works which premiered at the Altes Gewandhaus include: * Schubert's Great Symphony (21 March 1839, posth.) * Schumann's Symphony No. 1 (Schumann), Spring Symphony (31 March 1841) * Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony (3 March 1842) * Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (13 March 1845) * Wagner's overture to ''The Mastersingers of Nuremberg'' (2 June 1862; the full opera was not performed unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner Philharmonie
The () is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany, and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz. The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (''Großer Saal'') with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (''Kammermusiksaal'') with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some twenty years after the main building. History Hans Scharoun designed the building, which was constructed over the years 1960–1963. It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It was built to replace the old Philharmonie, destroyed by British bombers on 30 January 1944, the eleventh ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody (Skoryk)
''Melody'' (), also known as ''Melody in A minor'', is a musical composition by the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk. Composed for the 1982 Soviet war film ', it has a simple structure comprising an opening theme, short development section, and modified reprise of the original theme. It was originally scored for flute and piano but has since been arranged for many other instrumentations. ''Melody'' is Skoryk's most popular work and is frequently performed in concerts, including in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Background Skoryk composed ''Melody'' for the 1982 Soviet war film '. Set in Galicia in the aftermath of World War II, the film was subjected to Soviet censorship and negatively depicted Ukrainian nationalism. Skoryk, who composed the work at the request of the film's director, Volodymyr Denysenko, later said that although other composers had turned down the offer to compose the film's score, he wanted to create music to subvertively convey the film's tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poème (Chausson)
''Poème'', Opus number, Op. 25, is a work for violin and orchestra written by Ernest Chausson in 1896. It is a staple of the violinist's repertoire, has very often been recorded and performed, and is generally considered Chausson's best-known and most-loved composition. Background ''Poème'' was written in response to a request from Eugène Ysaÿe for a violin concerto. Chausson felt unequal to the task of a concerto, writing to Ysaÿe: "I hardly know where to begin with a concerto, which is a huge undertaking, the devil's own task. But I can cope with a shorter work. It will be in very free form with several passages in which the violin plays alone."Jessica Duchen"Love Triumphant?"/ref> It was commenced in April 1896 and finished on 29 June,"''Poème'', for violin and orchestra, Op.25" Classical Archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Gaggero
Luigi Gaggero (born 1976) is an Italian conductor, percussionist and academic teacher who has worked internationally. He is the chief conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, and cimbalon teacher at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, the only professor of cimbalon in Western Europe. History Gaggero was born in Italy. He studied percussion and conducting with Andrea Pestalozza, cimbalon with Márta Fábián in Budapest. He studied percussion further with Edgar Guggeis and Rainer Seegers at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where he graduated a solo diploma with distinction. He came to Ukraine as a performing percussionist around 2012, and was impressed by the quiet attention of the audience, listening like to a spiritual message ("geistige Botschaft"). He co-founded and directed the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv for contemporary music in 2015. He has taught cimbalon and percussion at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, as the only full professor of cimbalon in Western Europe. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra () is a Ukrainian symphony orchestra based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It has been conducted by Luigi Gaggero since 2018. The orchestra played music by Ukrainian composers on a tour to major concert halls in Poland and Germany, beginning in April 2022. History The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1979, during the time of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was previously known as the Kyiv Fantastic Orchestra and the State Academic Variety Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. From 2005 to 2018, the artistic director of the State Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine was Mykola Lysenko, great-great-grandson of famous Ukrainian composer. In 2017, the orchestra director was changed — Oleksandr Zaitsev was appointed instead of Serhii Fedorenko. The latter, in turn, fired the artistic director, Mykola Lysenko, and invited Bohdan Pushchak, a native of Donetsk, to replace him. The orchestra received an unofficial name Kyiv Fantastic orchestra. Since 2018 the chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Tetzlaff
Christian Tetzlaff (born 29 April 1966) is a German violinist who has performed internationally, with a focus on chamber music. Biography Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. His parents were amateur musicians and met in a church choir. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debut at 14 years old. He studied with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and later with Walter Levin at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. His breakthrough as a soloist came in 1988, at the age of 22, when he performed Schoenberg's Violin Concerto in critically acclaimed concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. The following year he made his solo recital debut in New York City. He has continued to play as a soloist with major orchestras on stage and in recordings, including Beethoven's works for violin and orchestra performed with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich under David Zinman. He returned to New York i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Isserlis
Steven John Isserlis (born 19 December 1958) is a British cellist. An acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, educator, writer and broadcaster, he is widely regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. He is also noted for his diverse repertoire and distinctive sound which is deployed with his use of gut strings. Isserlis is the recipient of numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award in 1993, the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau in 2000, and both the Wigmore Hall Medal and Glashütte Original Music Festival Award in 2017. His recordings have garnered two Gramophone Awards, a Classical BRIT Award, a BBC Music Magazine Award, and two Grammy Award nominations among others. He is also one of the only two living cellists inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Isserlis currently plays on the 1726 ''Marquis de Corberon'' cello made by Antonio Stradivari on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. Early life and educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
