Friedemann Eichhorn (born 1971) is a German classical violinist.

Biography and career

Eichhorn was born in

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, Germany, and studied

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with Valery Gradow at the Mannheim University of Music. He continued his studies with

Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor of Ukrainian ancestry. The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss ...

, at the International Menuhin Music Academy in

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, then went on to study at the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

, where he worked with

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, Earl Carlyss,

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and

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. Eichhorn has received scholarships from the

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, the Menuhin Academy and the Juilliard School, among others. Friedemann also studied musicology and law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in

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, where he earned a Ph.D.. Eichhorn has performed with many orchestras, including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Symphony, the

Munich Symphony Orchestra The Munich Symphony Orchestra (Münchner Symphoniker) is a German orchestra based in Munich. The orchestra gives subscription concerts at the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater and, to a lesser degree, at the Philharmonie am Gasteig, a ...

, the Hamburg Symphonies, and the Southwest Germany Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at a number of music festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Kronberg Cello-Festival, Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, Focus Festival, New York, and Killington, Vermont. He has worked with conductors such as

Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. ...

, Howard Griffiths and David Stahl, and performed with musicians such as

Yuri Bashmet Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist. Biography Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Abram Borisovich Bashmet and Maya Zinovyeva Bashmet (née Kri ...

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, and Igor Oistrach. As a

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, he was worked with Julius Berger, Alexander Huelshoff, José Gallardo,

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and

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. Eichhorn has recorded a number of CDs, for the

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, and

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labels. He has recorded works by Hermann, Rode,

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and others. Eichhorn teaches violin at the Liszt School of Music in

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, Germany, and is the

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of the

Kronberg Academy The Kronberg Academy is a Private university, private music school for string instrumentalists based in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany. Founded in 1993 by Raimund Trenkler, the academy trains a select group of young musicians who have the potential ...

Kronberg Kronberg im Taunus (, ) is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies ...

, Germany.

References

External links

Friedemann Eichhorn's biography and discography on the Naxos web site

Friedemann Eichhorn's web site
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