David Frühwirth (born 15 June 1974) is an Austrian classical violinist. He has played internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, with a focus on contemporary music which he also recorded. He has given international master classes.
Life and career
Born in
Salzburg
Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872.
The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
, Frühwirth began playing violin at age six. He made his debut at age eleven in the
Mozarteum
Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Mo ...
's great concert hall, playing Vivaldi's ''
Four Seasons
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Music
* ''The Four Seasons'' (Vivaldi), a 1725 set of four violin concertos by Antonio Viv ...
''. He studied violin in the
Mozarteum
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in his hometown with Paul Roczek and
Ruggiero Ricci
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Biography
He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants who first named him Woodrow ...
. He continued his studies in Germany from 1990 to 1995 with
Zakhar Bron, graduating at age 20. On an invitation of
Pinchas Zukerman
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Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zuk ...
, he took post-graduate studies with him in New York City, completing in 1998 with honours. He advanced chamber music playing with
Jaime Laredo
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Laredo was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In 1948, ...
,
Isidore Cohen
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and
Walter Levin
Walter Levin (December 6, 1924 – August 4, 2017) was the founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet (active 1947–1987), which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second V ...
.
Frühwirth made his debut at the
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...
in 2004, performing with pianist
Henri Sigfridsson
Henri Sigfridsson (born 1974) is a Finnish classical pianist.
Studies
Born in Turku, Sigfridsson began his musical studies in his native hometown conservatory. He then attended Erik T. Tawaststjerna's class at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. ...
music of the 20th century, music from Korngold's opera ''
Das Wunder der Heliane'', the ''Sonata in D'' by
Hans Gál
Hans Gál OBE (5 August 1890 – 3 October 1987) was an Austrian composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
Life
Gál was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, Lowe ...
,
William Walton
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's Toccata (1922/23), Korngold's Suite from his
incidental music
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to ''
Much Ado About Nothing
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'',
Op. 11 (1916), and
Ernst Krenek
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a stud ...
's first Violin Sonata, Op. 3 (1919).
The duo performed some of these works for a recording titled ''Trails of Creativity'', featuring music from the
interwar period.
Frühwirth has played at international festivals such as
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
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History
The festival was founded in 1986 by German concert pianist Justus Frantz.
In 2006, the 21 ...
and
Cheltenham Festival
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.
As a chamber music player, he has worked with
Jörg Widmann
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,
Alfredo Perl
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He began playing the piano from a young age. He studied at the Chilean National Con ...
and Adrian Brendel, among others. He is the first violinist of the Klenze Quartett, Munich.
In 2013, he recorded music for violin and piano by
Nikolai Rakov, including three sonatas, with
Milana Chernyavska. Barry Brenesal noted in
Fanfare
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about this only recording of the music: "Frühwirth has a lean, sleekly attractive tone. He negotiates Rakov’s moderate figurations without problems, and demonstrates a convincing grasp of Rakov’s phrasing and big-hearted manner."
In 2015, he participated in a concert in
Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech.
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Landsberg is sit ...
of English chamber music, including the
String Sextet
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, Op. 1, by Graham Waterhouse.
Frühwirth has given master classes internationally, including the
UCSI University
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in Manila.
He plays on a
Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari (, also , ; – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, ''Stradivarius'', as well as the colloqu ...
instrument from 1707 called "ex-Brüstlein", on loan from
Oesterreichische Nationalbank
The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) is the central bank of Austria and, as such, an integral part of both the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Eurozone. It started operations on , replacing the Austro-Hungarian Bank of whic ...
.
References
External links
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David Frühwirth / Violinaustrian-master-classes.com
Kammermusik Pasing
EDA 32: The Vienna Connection – ViolinsonatenEda Records
Farbenfrohcrescendo.de
* Rob Barnett
musicweb-international.com 2010
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1974 births
Austrian classical violinists
Male classical violinists
Living people
Mozarteum University Salzburg alumni
21st-century classical violinists
21st-century male musicians