Ernest Ačkun (Ернест Ачкун) (March 27, 1930 – September 28, 2001) was a Yugoslav
clarinetist
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.
Classical clarinetists
* Laver Bariu
* Ernest Ačkun
* Luís Afonso
* Cristiano Alves
* Michel Arrignon
* Dimitri Ashkenazy
* Kinan Azmeh
* Alexander Bader
* Carl Baermann
* ...
.
Early life
Ernest Ačkun was born in
Hrastnik
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,
Slovenia
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, which was then part of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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Bruno Brun
Bruno Brun (1910–1978) was a Yugoslav clarinetist and professor at the Belgrade Music Academy.
Education
Brun was born in Hrastnik, Austro-Hungary, now Slovenia. He graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1945 and continued his education in ...
, and then studied at the
Paris Conservatory
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under
Ulysse Delécluse
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.
Performance and teaching activities
Ačkun gave concerts as a soloist in nearly all great towns in
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, West
Germany
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,
Austria
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,
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and
Bulgaria
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, playing under the leadership of such conductors as
Zubin Mehta
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Mehta's father was the foun ...
,
Jean Martinon
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Biography
Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire ...
,
Charles Bruck
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Bruck was born in a Jewish family in Temesvár, Banat, then in the Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Timișoara in Roman ...
,
Krešimir Baranović
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,
Oskar Danon
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,
Milan Horvat
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,
Živojin Zdravković
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.
Distinguished Yugoslav composers, such as
Stjepan Šulek
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and
Zlatan Vauda
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, dedicated their compositions to him. He also recorded for
radio
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and
television
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.
Ačkun was principal clarinetist of the
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
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Unlike most Eur ...
and Professor of
Chamber Music
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prize
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s, including the First Prize at the Competition of Yugoslav Performing Artists in
Skopje
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and was a prize winner in the
ARD International Music Competition
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(both 1954). He was also rewarded the UMUS award for the best music performance achievement in the previous concert season (1984).
He was a jury member on various competitions, including the 1987
Jeunesses Musicales
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International Competition in
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, along with
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),
Walter Boeykens
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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
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(Yugoslavia).
In 1992 he was a jury member on the
ARD International Music Competition
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in
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),
Eduard Brunner
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Philippe Cuper
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(
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Giora Feidman
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Charles Neidich
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.
Later life
Ernest Ačkun died in
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,
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, which was then part of
FR Yugoslavia
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*Barker, John Craig: ''The Jeunesses Musicales Belgrade International Competition'', ''The Clarinet'', February/March 1988
*Blagojevic, Andrija. "Bruno Brun (1910-1978) - Founder of the Yugoslav clarinet school." ''The Clarinet'', Vol. 41/3 (June 2014), pp. 46–51.
* Blagojević, Andrija. "The Performance Career of Bruno Brun." ''The Clarinet'', Vol. 47/3 (June 2020), pp. 34–37.
*Dizon, Kristine. "Croatian Clarinet Concertos." ''Clarinet & Saxophone'', Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 22-25.
*Eberst, A.
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By place
Byzantine Empire
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: ''Klarinet i klarinetisti'', Forum, Novi Sad
*Gillespie, James: ''The International Clarinet Competition of the ARD-Munich'', ''The Clarinet'', September 2003
*''Jugokoncert: 1946-1971'', ed. by Milena Milanović. Belgrade: Yugoslav concert agency, 1971.
*Lawson, C. J. (1995), '' The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet'', Cambridge University Press
*''LP 2130556 STEREO'', Produkcija gramofonskih ploča Radio-televizije Beograd, Beograd
*Maksimović, M. (1971): ''Beogradska filharmonija 1951-1971'', Beogradska filharmonija, Beograd
*''Muzička enciklopedija'', I (1971), Jugoslovenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb
*''Muzika i muzičari u NOB - Zbornik sećanja'' (1982), Grupa izdavača, Beograd
*''Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937-1987'' (1988), Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd
*Pejović, R. (1986): ''Oskar Danon'', Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd
*Peričić, V.
969
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''Muzički stvaraoci u Srbiji'', Prosveta, Beograd
*Stojković, Milica. ''Bila sam svedok: Muzička produkcija RTB 1976-1992''. Beograd: RDU Radio-televizija Srbije, 2011. Svet Plus 28 September 2009
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