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Belmont Prize
The Belmont Prize is a music award named after the place of destiny in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice''. The Munich-based Forberg Schneider Foundation, founded in 1997, promotes outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary music. The biennially-awarded prize is endowed with €20,000 and is one of Europe’s highest endowed awards for artistic creation. Recipients * 1999 Jörg Widmann * 2001 Florent Boffard * 2004 Carolin Widmann * 2005 Quatuor Ébène * 2007 Bruno Mantovani * 2009 * 2012 Alex Ross * 2013 Sabrina Hölzer * 2015 Milica Djordjevic * 2018 Eamonn Quinn * 2020 Florian Weber Florian Weber (born 11 November 1977) is a German pianist and composer of modern jazz. Early life and education Weber was born on 11 November 1977 in Detmold. His family was musical: "his father was a music professor and his mother an opera singe ... * 2022 Sarah Aristidou References External links * {{official website, 1=http://www.stiftung.forberg-schneider.de/?id=4&L=1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merchant Of Venice
''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for the character Shylock and his famous demand for a " pound of flesh" in retribution. The play contains two famous speeches, that of Shylock, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" on the subject of humanity, and that of Portia on " the quality of mercy". Debate exists on whether the play is anti-Semitic, with Shylock's insistence on his legal right to the pound of flesh being in opposition to Shylock's seemingly universal plea for the rights of all people suffering discrimination. Characters * Antonio – a prominent merchant of Venice in a melancholic mood. * Bassanio â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2018, Widmann was the third most performed contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he is composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie. His most important compositions are the two operas ''Babylon'' and ''Das Gesicht im Spiegel'', an oratorio ''Arche'', his string quartets and the concert overture '' Con brio''. Widmann wrote musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018. Education and career Widmann was born on 19 June 1973 in Munich, the son of a physicist and a teacher. He first took clarinet lessons in 1980. Four years later he became a composition student of Kay Westermann. Widmann attended the secondary school in Munich. He later studied composition with Hans Werner Henze, Wilfried Hiller, Heiner Goebbels and Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florent Boffard
Florent Boffard (born in 1964) is a French classical pianist and pedagogue. Biography Boffard received his first musical training at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon. In 1976, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod's piano class at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained a first prize. He completed his piano studies with Germaine Mounier. He also studied chamber music with Geneviève Joy. From 1988 to 1999, he was a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, with whom he created numerous works by contemporary composers such as Franco Donatoni, György Ligeti, Klaus Huber, Philippe Fénelon and Michael Jarrell. Among others, he played Boulez's '' Structures for two pianos'' (with Pierre-Laurent Aimard) and Luciano Berio's ''Sequenza IV''. With Isabelle Faust, he recorded Bartok's '. In 2001, he released a recording of Debussy's and Bartók's works for piano for Harmonia Mundi. As a concert pianist, Boffard has performed at festivals in Salzburg, Berlin, Bath and Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolin Widmann
Carolin Widmann (born 1976) is a German classical violinist. The sister of composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, she focuses mainly on contemporary music. She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. Career Born in Munich, Widmann studied with Igor Ozim in Cologne, Michèle Auclair in Boston and David Takeno in London. As a soloist she has been conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Holliger, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Daniel Harding and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders, who have written several works especially for her.Biography of her Homepage She has performed with orchestras such as |
Quatuor Ébène
In music, a quartet or quartette (, , , , ) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers; or a musical composition for four voices and instruments. Classical String quartet In classical music, one of the most common combinations of four instruments in chamber music is the string quartet. String quartets most often consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass (SATB). In the string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the bass register. Composers of notable string quartets include Joseph Haydn ( 68 compositions), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (23), Ludwig van Beethoven (16), Franz Schubert (15), Felix Mendelssohn (6), Johannes Brahms (3), AntonÃn Dvořák (14), Alexander Borodin (2), Béla Bartók (6), Elizabeth Maconchy (13), Darius Milhaud (18), Heitor V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Mantovani
Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government as well as other organizations. In September 2010 he was appointed to the post of director of the Paris Conservatory. Biography At 37, Bruno Mantovani became the director of the Conservatoire de Paris. In October 2018, his new composition ''Threnos'' was premiered at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Marin Alsop. In March 2019, he was named music director of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, a position that will start in January 2020. Awards * 2010 Claudio-Abbado-Kompositionspreis of the Orchester-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Works list Orchestra * ''Art d'écho'', for orchestra, 2000 * ''Con Leggerezza'', for orchestra, 2004 * ''Concerto pour deux altos et orchestre'', for two violas and orchestra, 2009 * ''Concerto pour deux pianos'', for two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Ross (music Critic)
Alex Ross (born January 12, 1968) is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. A staff member of ''The New Yorker'' magazine since 1996, his extensive writings include performance and record reviews, industry updates, cultural commentary and historical narratives in the realm of classical music. He has written three well-received books: '' The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century'' (2007), ''Listen to This'' (2011), and ''Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music'' (2020). A graduate of Harvard University and student of composer Peter Lieberson, from 1992 to 1996 Ross was a critic for ''The New York Times''. He has received wide acclaim for his publications; ''The Rest Is Noise'' was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and his other awards and honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Belmont Prize. He maintains a popular classical music blog, ''The Rest is Noise''. Life and career Alex Ross w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Hölzer
Sabrina may refer to: * Sabrina (given name), a feminine given name, including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name People * Sabrina (actress), stage name of Norma Ann Sykes (1936–2016), a British glamour model and actress * Sabrina (Filipino singer) (born 1989) * Sabrina (Greek singer) (born 1969) * Sabrina (Portuguese singer) (born 1982) * Sabrina Salerno (born 1968), Italian singer also mononymously known as Sabrina Film and television * ''Sabrina'' (1954 film), starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden * ''Sabrina'' (1995 film), a remake starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, and Greg Kinnear * ''Sabrina'' (2018 film), an Indonesian horror film * several media properties featuring Sabrina the Teenage Witch * ''Sabrina'' (TV series), a Mexican show on the Telehit network, circa 2005 * ''Sabrina'' (Bangladeshi TV series), a streaming series Music * ''Sabrina'' (album), an album by Sabrina * "Sabrina", a song by Einstürzende N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Djordjevic
Milica Djordjevic (born 1984 in Belgrade, Serbia), is a composer of contemporary classical music and one of the most important representatives of the younger generation of composers in international musical life. (Berliner Festspiele) She lives in Cologne. Life and background Djordjević grew up in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. As a young child she hoped to become a concert pianist or a painter. She went to classical gymnasium and specialized music school, which she decided to enroll during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when her refuge was not a bunker but playing the piano for virually endless hours of air raids. During teenage years she seriously considered a career in physics, theatre or art. Both painting and physics are still an important part of composer's life: her first impulse for sound representation, i.e. the notation, is a drawing and physics is inextricably linked to music. Some of the examples of this very broad field of interest and inspiration are ''The De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn Quinn
Eamonn or Éamon or Eamon may refer to: *Eamonn (given name), an Irish male given name *Eamon (singer) (born 1983), American R&B singer-songwriter and harmonicist * ''Eamon'' (video game), a 1980 computer role-playing game for the Apple II *" Éamonn an Chnoic" (Ned of the Hill), an Irish song *Eamon Valda This article serves as an index of major characters in the fictional setting of Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' series, with a description of their main roles or feats in the series. ''The Wheel of Time'' has 2787 distinct named characters. ..., fictional character in Robert Jordan's fantasy book series ''The Wheel of Time'' See also * Ayman {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Weber
Florian Weber (born 11 November 1977) is a German pianist and composer of modern jazz. Early life and education Weber was born on 11 November 1977 in Detmold. His family was musical: "his father was a music professor and his mother an opera singer. He began learning the piano at the age of four and had played in both classical and jazz ensembles by the time he left high school." In 1999, he received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. Later, he studied with John Taylor in Cologne, Joanne Brackeen and Paul Bley in Boston, and Richie Beirach and Lee Konitz in New York. Career Together with bassist Jeff Denson and drummer Ziv Ravitz, Weber founded Minsarah (Hebrew for "prism") in 2002. Their 2006 eponymous album was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize. The saxophonist Lee Konitz began working with the Trio Minsarah in 2006, and the group became a quartet. They began to tour, mainly in the United States. Their first CD, ''Deep Lee'', was released by En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
