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Leonard Bernstein Award
The Leonard Bernstein Award is endowed with 10,000 euros. Since 2002, the award has been sponsored by the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The prize is awarded to talented classical musicians to give them support for an international career. The jury includes children of Leonard Bernstein, Zarin Mehta (2015), the conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Christian Kuhnt. Recipients Source: * 2002 Lang Lang * 2003 Lisa Batiashvili * 2004 Erik Schumann * 2005 Jonathan Biss * 2006 Alisa Weilerstein * 2007 Martin Grubinger * 2008 Anna Vinnitskaya * 2009 Leonard Elschenbroich * 2010 Kit Armstrong * 2011 David Aaron Carpenter * 2012 Cameron Carpenter * 2013 Jan Lisiecki * 2014 * 2015 Krzysztof Urbański * 2016 Felix Klieser * 2017 Kian Soltani * 2018 Charles Yang * 2019 Emily D'Angelo Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * Emi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held each summer throughout the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. History The festival was founded in 1986 by German concert pianist Justus Frantz. In 2006, the 21st festival was from 15 July through 3 September with the Low German festival motto ''Dat klinkt lekker'' (That sounds yummy). The 22nd festival in 2007 focused on Hungary, 2008 on Russia, 2009 on Germany, when the motto was ''Heimspiel'' (''home game''). In 2010 the motto was ''Poland in Pulse'' featuring music from Poland. The regional focus was in 2011 Turkey, in 2012 China, and in 2013 Baltic states. Beginning in 2014, the concept changed by highlighting a specific composer for each year. The composer retrospectives were devoted in 2014 to Felix Mendelssohn, in 2015 to Peter Tchaikovsky, in 2016 to Joseph Haydn, in 2017 to Maurice Ravel, in 2018 to Robert Schumann, in 2019 Johann Sebastian Bach, and in 2020 Carl Nielsen. Awards and Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki (; born March 23, 1995) is a Canadian-born classical pianist of Polish ancestry. Lisiecki performs over a hundred concerts annually and has worked closely with the world's leading orchestras and conductors, his career at the top of the international concert scene spanning over a decade. He has been a recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon since the age of fifteen. Early life and education Lisiecki was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and began piano lessons at the age of five, making his orchestral debut at the age of nine. At thirteen, Lisiecki was invited to the 2008 edition of the " Chopin and his Europe" festival in Warsaw, Poland, to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 with Sinfonia Varsovia and Howard Shelley. Instantly hailed as the sensation of the festival, he returned in 2009 to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 in the same constellation. He was brought to international attention the following year when the Fryderyk Chop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Music Awards
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) * Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music Awards
Classical may refer to: European antiquity *Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea *Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity *Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans *Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures * Classics, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature *Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts Music and arts *Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles * Classical music, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present * Classical guitar, a common type of acoustic guitar *Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Kobekina
Anastasia Kobekina (russian: Анастасия Кобекина; born 26 August 1994) is a Russian cellist. In 2019, she won third prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition. Life and career Kobekina was born in 1994 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, into a family of musicians and received her first cello lessons at the age of four. In 2006, she was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory and in 2016 continued her education with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. She currently studies with Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Kristin von der Goltz. She was a finalist at Eurovision Young Musicians 2008. In 2019, she won third prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition. Kobekina performs on a 1743 cello by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (often shortened to G. B. Guadagnini; 23 June 1711 – 18 September 1786) was an Italian luthier, reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Vassileva
Vivi Vassileva (born 1994) is a German percussionist focused on new classical music. She has played as a soloist in chamber ensembles and with orchestras, using classical instruments but also percussion instruments from different cultures and even some derived from garbage. Life and career Vassileva was born in Hof in 1994 to a family of musicians from Bulgaria. Both parents played with the Hofer Symphoniker; she grew up with three elder sibling who all played violin, her brother Vasko Vasilev to become concert master at the Royal Opera House. She was first trained in violin by her father. She was one of the children portrayed in the 2010 documentary ''7 oder Warum ich auf der Welt bin'' (7 or Why I am on Earth) by and Hans Helmut Grotjahn. Vassileva became interested in percussion when she heard drummers on a beach in Bulgaria who played in a circle for hours when she was age eight. They invited her to play with them and she was fascinated. Her father gave in to let her l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Deutschlandfunk Kultur (; abbreviated to ''DLF Kultur'' or ''DKultur'') is a culture-oriented radio station and part of Deutschlandradio, a set of national radio stations in Germany. Initially named ''DeutschlandRadio Berlin'', the station was renamed ''Deutschlandradio Kultur'' on 1 April 2005. The present name was adopted on 1 May 2017. The station's studios are in what was the RIAS building at Hans-Rosenthal-Platz in Schöneberg, Berlin. History Deutschlandfunk Kultur's roots go back to the first Deutschlandsender, set up in 1926. After World War II, ''Deutschlandsender'' became the main national radio station of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), with programming aimed at all of Germany. In the 1970s it was merged with the main Berlin station ''Berliner Welle'' and renamed ''Stimme der DDR'' - "Voice of the GDR". It lasted until February 1990 when it again became ''Deutschlandsender'', and in May 1990 it merged with Radio DDR 2. The merged entity was named ''Deutschlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Shibe
Sean Shibe ( ; born 1992) is a classical and electric guitarist from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He is of English and Japanese ancestry. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (and was the youngest student to enter the then Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) and with Italian guitarist Paolo Pegoraro. He is frequently referred to as the foremost guitarist of his generation. His debut album was described as "not just great guitar playing... the best he juryhad ever heard" by ''BBC Music Magazine'', and "the best solo guitar disc I've heard" by The Arts Desk. Shibe also plays electric guitar, as on his 2018 album ''softLOUD'', on which he performs Steve Reich's ''Electric Counterpoint'', as well as electric guitar arrangements of works by David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Sean Shibe also performs Georges Lentz's epic, hour-long ''Ingwe'' for solo electric guitar. Shibe also plays renaissance lute, performing 16th Century French repertoire at Baroque at the Edge, LSO St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isata Kanneh-Mason
Isata Kanneh-Mason (born May 1996) is a British pianist. She is the sister of and frequent collaborator with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Early life and education Kanneh-Mason grew up in Nottingham, England. She is the first child of Stuart Mason, from London, a luxury hotel business manager of Antiguan descent, and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, from Sierra Leone, a former lecturer at the University of Birmingham and author of the 2020 book ''House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons''. Isata attended the Purcell School, before earning a place to study at the Royal Academy of Music on the prestigious Sir Elton John Scholarship. She later performed with the rock star himself in Los Angeles in 2013. Career Isata was an ECHO Rising Star in 21/22 performing in many of Europe’s finest halls and she is also the recipient of the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award, an Opus Klassik award for best young artist and is one of the Konzerthaus Dortmund’s Junge Wilde artists Kanneh-Mason made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stathis Karapanos
Stathis is a Greek name. * Stathis Giallelis (born 21 January 1941) Greek actor * Stathis Psaltis (1948-2017), Greek actor * Stathis K. Zachos (Στάθης (Ευστάθιος) Ζάχος born 1947, Athens) mathematician, logician and theoretical computer scientist * Stathis Chaitas (Στάθης Xάιτας born 20 March 1940) football midfielder during the 1960s and 1970s * Stathis Damianakos (Στάθης Δαμιανάκος 1939 – 2003) researcher in the fields of agriculture * Stathis Karamalikis (born 4 December 1981 in Zakynthos, Greece) professional football striker * Giannis Stathis (born 20 May 1987) Greek professional footballer * Efstathios Tavlaridis, commonly known as Stathis Tavlaridis, Greek football defender * Stathis Kappos (born 1979), Greek-Canadian footballer * Stathis Borans, character from the 1986 film '' The Fly'' * Stathis Provatidis (Στάθης Προβατίδης; born 2 December 1982), Greek footballer playing for Diagoras F.C. PAE G.S. Diag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily D'Angelo
Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * Emily (1964 song), "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily'' * Emily (Dave Koz song), "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song on Dave Koz's album ''Dave Koz'' * Emily (Bowling for Soup song), "Emily" (Bowling for Soup song), a 2003 song on Bowling for Soup's album ''Drunk Enough to Dance'' * "Emily" (2009), song on Clan of Xymox's album ''In Love We Trust'' * "Emily" (2019), song on Tourist (musician), Tourist's album ''Everyday'' * "Emily", song on Adam Green's album ''Gemstones (album), Gemstones'' * "Emily", song on Alice in Videoland's album ''Outrageous! (Alice in Videoland album), Outrageous!'' * "Emily", song on Elton John's album ''The One (Elton John album), The One'' * "Emily", song on Asian versions of Feeder's album ''Comfort in Sound'' * "Emily", song on From First to Last's album ''Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yang (violinist)
Charles Yang (born 1988) is an American violinist, composer and singer, who currently performs with the classically trained string trio Time for Three. Born in Austin, Yang began his violin studies with his mother at the age of three and later went on to study with renowned pedagogies Kurt Sassmannshaus, Paul Kantor, and Brian Lewis. He received his bachelor of music and master of music degrees at The Juilliard School under Glenn Dicterow. Yang's improvisational crossover abilities as a violinist, electric violinist, and vocalist have led to performances across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has performed at renowned venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and the Forbidden City in Beijing and has collaborated with artists including Peter Dugan, CDZA, Marcelo Gomes, Jake Shimabukuro, and Jesse Colin Young. In 2013, Twyla Tharp selected Yang to be the violin soloist for the revival of her work "Bach Partita" with the American Ballet Theatre. In 2016, Yang joined Time for T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
