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Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud Competition
The Long–Thibaud–Crespin Competition is an international classical music competition for pianists, violinists and singers that has been held in France since 1943. (A Jacques Thibaud Competition was held the year before in Bordeaux: Jacques Thibaud chaired the jury and the First Prize was awarded to Jacques Dejean.) It was created by the pianist Marguerite Long and the violinist Jacques Thibaud. Thibaud died in 1953, Long in 1966. Until 2011 it included only pianists and violinists and was known as the Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud Competition. That year, in honour of the French soprano Régine Crespin (1927–2007), it was expanded to include singers, and renamed. Frequency The competition was initially triennial, but from 1949 it was held biennially. In 1980, it was split into two contests, where pianists compete only against other pianists, and violinists only against other violinists. Previously, violinists and pianists had competed against each other. That ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dejean
Jacques Dejean (13 December 1919, in Bordeaux – 7 July 2013, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande) was a French classical violinist. Biography His father, Louis Dejean, was a violin teacher and a violinist at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux; his mother, Rose Fino, of Basque origin, was a renowned piano teacher. After a first prize in violin and a first prize in viola at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux in 1936, Dejean entered Jules Boucherit's class at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained the first prize in violin, unanimously "first named". In 1942 he won first prize in the Jacques Thibaud Competition (jury composed of Jacques Thibaud, Jules Boucherit, Gaston Poulet, Jean Fournier, André Asselin and Firmin Touche) the year it was founded in Bordeaux. Concertmaster of many orchestras (Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Concerts Colonne, Orchestre Lamoureux, Pasdeloup Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México), he was also a member of several French string quartets (Tessier Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Collard
Collard at the ''Flâneries musicales'', Reims (6 June 2014) Jean-Philippe Henri Collard (born 27 January 1948) is a French pianist known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns. Career Collard was born on 27 January 1948 in Mareuil-sur-Ay, Marne, into a musical family. He started playing the piano at age five. In 1960 he traveled to Berlin having been sent by the Jeunesses musicales de France to compete in the International Competition for young pianists. At 16 he won First Prize at the Paris Conservatory of Music. He is also a winner of the Gabriel Fauré Award. In addition, Collard has won a First Prize from the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, the Albert Roussel Award and the Cziffra International Competition. In 1973 he played his recital debut in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Critics in Paris were very enthusiastic. "He has all the right qualities which make him a musician of the highest order; hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Kravchenko (violinist)
Kravchenko, also Krawchenko, Krawczenko or Kravtchenko ( Сyrillic: Кравченко) is a common Ukrainian surname, widely found in the former Soviet Union and respective diasporas abroad. It is an occupational surname of patronymic derivation, based on the occupation of ''kravets'' (кравець), or 'tailor' and literally meaning "child of tailor". Other Ukrainian surnames of similar derivation are Kravchuk and Kravets.Cottle, Basil. ''Penguin Dictionary of Surnames.'' Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1967. It may refer to the following people: * Alex Kravchenko (born 1971), Russian professional poker player * Alexander Kravchenko, several persons * Andrei Kravchenko (other), several persons * Anzhela Kravchenko (born 1971), Ukrainian sprinter *Dmytro Kravchenko (born 1995), Ukrainian football player * Fyodor Iosifovich Kravchenko (1912–1988), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union *Grigory Kravchenko (1912–1943), Soviet aircraft pilot and twice Hero of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Jashvili
Nana Jashvili (Russian: Нана Яшвили, Georgian: ნანა იაშვილი) is a well-known Georgian classical violinist of Russian tradition, born in Tbilisi, Georgia. A student and later assistant of Leonid Kogan at the Moscow conservatory, she won several competitions in Georgia and in the Soviet Union. At age 17, she won the ''Premier Grand Prix'' at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition in Paris, where she was also awarded the ''Prix Spécial'' for her interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Tzigane. She also won the Concours Musical International de Montréal. She has performed in Russia, Georgia, Europe, Japan and Canada. She has appeared as soloist at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Karl Böhm, Aleksandr Dmitriyev, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Kirill Kondrashin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |