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Gulda (other)
Gulda may refer to: * Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), Austrian pianist and composer * Rico Gulda Rico Gulda (born 9 April 1968) is an Austrian classical pianist and conductor. Biography Early life and career He was born in Zurich, as the third son of the prominent pianist Friedrich Gulda and the only child of his Japanese second wi ... (born 1968), Austrian pianist and conductor, son of Friedrich Gulda See also * Golda (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields. Biography Early life and career Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano at age 7 with Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno Seidlhofer and Joseph Marx. During World War II as teenagers, Gulda and his friend Joe Zawinul would perform forbidden music, including jazz, in violation of the government's prohibition of playing of such music."Friedrich Gulda: So What – A Portrait" Gulda won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1946. Initially, the jury preferred the Belgian pianist Lode Backx, but when the final vote was taken, Gulda was the winner. One of the jurors, Eileen Joyce, who favoured Backx, stormed out and claimed the other jurors were unfairly influenced by Gulda's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rico Gulda
Rico Gulda (born 9 April 1968) is an Austrian classical pianist and conductor. Biography Early life and career He was born in Zurich, as the third son of the prominent pianist Friedrich Gulda and the only child of his Japanese second wife, the pianist and composer Yuko Wakiyama. He grew up in Munich and received his first piano lessons at the age of five. From the age of twelve, he studied with and later with at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov and Oleg Maisenberg, as well as work with his father, Friedrich Gulda, rounded out his education. Gulda performs as a soloist, in a chamber music ensemble, and with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. He has performed with his half-brother the pianist , as well as with the pianists Paul Badura-Skoda and Martha Argerich, the violinist Renaud Capuçon, the conductor Christian Arming, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
