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Premio Paganini
The Paganini Competition (aka Premio Paganini or Paganini Concore) is an international violin competition named after the famed virtuoso and founder of contemporary violin technique Niccolò Paganini. Created in 1954 it has been carried out ever since in the months of September and October. The "Paganini Competition" is one of the most important violin competitions. It is held every two years at " Carlo Felice" theatre in Genoa, Italy. There are three levels of competition: preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals and repertoire that is played includes solo violin, violin and piano accompaniment, and violin and orchestra. Participation Participants are of all nationalities and are between 15 and 31 years of age. Competition Preliminaries: Preliminary repertoire includes two selections for solo violin or violin and piano accompaniment and two Caprices from Paganini's 24 Caprices, Op.1 M.S. 25 for solo violin. Semi-Finals: Three or four selections for solo violin or violin and pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Pauk
György Pauk (26 October 1936 – 18 November 2024) was a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue. Biography Pauk was born on 26 October 1936 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Imre Pauk and Magda (nee Lustig). His father was a manager at the Lustig and Gluck Transportation Company. His mother was a pianist and the daughter of the company's owner. Pauk's father was taken away by the Hungarian SS in 1942 and starved to death in a labour camp in Ukraine; his mother was murdered following a raid later that year by Hungarian fascists belonging to the Arrow Cross party. Pauk was raised in poverty by his grandmother in the Budapest ghetto under the protection of a Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, and his chief memory was of hunger. Musical career Pauk had started learning the violin at the age of five and resumed his studies after the war. He entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at the age of nine in 1945 and studied as Imre Waldbauer's pupil. From 1947 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Fodor (violinist)
Eugene Nicholas Fodor, Jr. (March 5, 1950 – February 26, 2011) was an American classical violinist. Fodor was born in Denver, Colorado. His first 10 years of study were with Harold Wippler, who taught him from 1958 until 1968. Wippler observed that "It was very apparent that he had exceptional talent. Not just technical talent but a great, unusual understanding of music." He then studied at the Juilliard School in New York City, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Southern California, where his teachers included Ivan Galamian, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz, respectively. Fodor made his solo debut with the Denver Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10, playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, and began touring as a soloist while still a young teenager. Fodor won numerous national contests before the age of 17, including First Prize in both the Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, D.C., and the Young Musicians Foundation Competition in Los Angeles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Sekler
MOSE () is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding. The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile gates, installed on the seafloor at the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets, that can be raised to temporarily seal off the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea during acqua alta high tides. Together with other measures, such as coastal reinforcement, elevating of quaysides, and paving and improvement of the lagoon, MOSE is designed to protect Venice and the lagoon from tides of up to . As of 2023, the floodgates are raised for tides forecast to be more than . The ''Consorzio Venezia Nuova'' is responsible for the work on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – Venice Water Authority.The Water Authority is heir to the historic office of the Serenissima set up in 1501. It is now the local organ of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport with direct primary responsibility for the sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer (; born 27 February 1947) is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica. Life and career Gidon Kremer was born in Riga. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holocaust. His mother had German-Swedish origins. His grandfather was a well-known musicologist and violinist in Riga. The boy began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather, who were both professional violinists. He went on to study at the Riga School of Music, where his teacher was mainly Voldemar Sturestep (Voldemārs Stūresteps). From 1965, Kremer studied with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1967, he won third prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. In 1969, he won second prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition (shared with Oleh Krysa), followed by first prize at the Paganini Competition in Genoa, and first prize again in 1970 at the International Tchai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Fried
Miriam Fried (; born 9 September 1946) is a Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist and pedagogue. Biography Miriam Fried was born in Satu Mare, Romania but moved with her family to Israel when she was aged 2. Her family settled in Herzliya. Her mother was a piano teacher. Miriam first took up piano lessons, but she began studies at age eight with Alice Fenyves at the Tel Aviv Academy (now the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University). She then spent a year under with Alice's brother, Lorand Fenyves, at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, and eventually studied with Josef Gingold at Indiana University (under what is now the Jacobs School of Music) and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School. In 1968 she won the Paganini Competition in Genoa and in 1971 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. Miriam Fried is the dedicatee and first performer of the Violin Concerto by Donald Erb. Other composers who have written works for her include Ned Rorem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Zhislin
Grigori Yefimovich Zhislin (Russian Григорий Ефимович Жислин; 14 May 1945 in Leningrad – 2 May 2017 in Berlin) was a Russian violinist and pedagogue. He studied with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatory. At the age of 22, he won the First Prize at the Paganini Competition in Genoa and the Silver Medal at the Queen Elizabeth Competition. Zhislin's repertoire contains concertos and recitals of all genres, for violin as well as for viola. As a soloist, Zhislin appeared with the Leningrad/St Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, State Symphony Orchestra, RRS (Mailand, Turin), RBC Orchestras (Australian), Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Vienna Symphonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Krakow Philharmonic, Stockholm Radio Orchestra. He played under the conductors Herbert Blomstedt, Aldo Ceccato, Erik Klass, Karl Österreicher, Kirill Kondrashin, Dimitri Kitajenko, Alexander Lasarev, Arvid Jansons, Yuri Temirk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Pikaizen
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (2014 film), a Franco/Russian film * ''Viktor'' (2024 film), a documentary of a deaf person's perspective during Russian invasion of Ukraine Music * ''Victor'' (Alex Lifeson album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * ''Victor'' (Vic Mensa album), 2023 album by Vic Mensa * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (born 3 October 1945) is a French violinist and conductor. His son is the pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Biography Kantorow was born in Cannes, France, into a family of Russian-Jewish origin. From the age of 13 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with René Benedetti, and in 1960 won the first violin prize. In the 1960s he won ten major international prizes, including first prizes in the Carl Flesch Competition (London), the ( Genoa) Paganini Competition, and the Geneva International Competition. Since the 1970s he has been noted for his solo performances in a very wide range of repertoire (from Baroque music to contemporary), and as a chamber music performer. His recordings have won many awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Franz Liszt. He held senior positions at the Strasbourg Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleh Krysa
Oleg/Oleh Krysa ( ; born June 1, 1942) is an American violinist of Ukrainian Origin, Laureate of International Competitions, Honored Artist of Ukrainian SSR(1970), Laureate of Lenin Komsomol Prize(1970), Merited Artist of Ukraine. Early life Born in Uchanie, now Gmina Uchanie in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, into a family of Ukrainian aristocrats. In 1945, as a result of Operation Vistula, his family found itself in Lviv, where he grew up and spent his school years. Although none of the family had any professional music background, his mother, who was often heard singing, wanted young Oleh to play violin, although his father preferred that he learned to play piano. Thus, at the age of six, Oleh started learning to play the violin. His first teacher was Konstantin Mikhailov, who himself was a pupil of Sergey Korguyev (known in the West as Serge P. Korgueff, a pupil and assistant of Leopold Auer). After graduating from the Lviv Specialized Music School in 1960, Oleh Krysa en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryvonne Le Dizès
Maryvonne Le Dizès (25 June 1940 – 9 August 2024), also known as Maryvonne Le Dizès-Richard, was a French violinist and academic teacher. She is best known for her work on contemporary classical music, as violinist of the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris from 1979 for over twenty years. Le Dizès collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez and György Ligeti, and commissioned new chamber music works. She taught at the Regional Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris from 1977. Life and career Maryvonne Le Dizès was born on 25 June 1940, in Quimper, France. During her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, she received awards for both solo performances and for chamber music. In 1962, she was the first woman to achieve first prize at the Paganini Competition. She moved to the United States for two years because of her husband's career, where she became the first woman and the first foreigner to enter the Carnegie Hall Competition. At this time she performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Kamilarov
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Emil may refer to: Literature *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s *Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer See also * * Emile (other) *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a variant of the given names Emil (other), Emil, Emilio (other), Emilio and Emílio (other), Emílio, and may refer to: *Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor *Aimilios Papathanas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
