Gidon Kremer
Gidon Markowitsch Kremer ( lett Gidons Krēmers; born February 27, 1947 in Riga) is a Latvian violinist German - Jewish descent.
Life
Kremer was born in Riga in 1947, the son of German-born parents. His grandfather and his father were a violinist and music educator, and Kremer received in the domestic circle as a child music lessons. In 1954 he attended the Conservatory of Riga and took lessons with Voldemars Stūresteps. Even at sixteen he was awarded the First Prize of the Latvian Soviet Republic.
1965 Kremer went to the Moscow Conservatory, where he became a pupil of David Oistrakh. In 1967 he won a prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (3rd place), and two years later he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, in 1970, in turn, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
As a member of the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra Kremer developed in the 1970s together with Emil Gilels and Lazar Gosman work-ups of more than 200 works of chamber music, including pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten. He gave his first concert in 1975 in (West ) Germany, and in 1976 he played at the Salzburg Festival in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Chaconne for solo violin and chamber orchestra "il Vitalino raddoppiato ". In 1977 he made his debut in the United States. In the same year he married the pianist Elena Bashkirova.
Early 1978 Kremer asked the Soviet government to a two-year vacation and got that too.
In 1980, he stayed on in the West as his Soviet visa allowed him. Kremer decided to no longer in the (then) USSR return ( glasnost and perestroika began five years later ).
In 1980, he switched to a Stradivarius from 1734, the "Ex -Baron of Feilitzsch ", then on a Guarneri del Gesù (ex David) from the year 1730. Currently, he plays a Nicola Amati from the year 1641.
In 1981, Kremer, the Chamber Music Festival curls house, which has since been held every year in the summer, since 1992 under the name Kremerata Musica. In 1997 he founded the string orchestra Kremerata Baltica with young musicians from the Baltic States. In the same year he was appointed as the successor of Yehudi Menuhin, the artistic director of the festival in Gstaad. Since 2002 he has been artistic director of the Basel festival les muséiques and is also the Artistic Advisory Board of the Kronberg Academy. Since 2004 he has held the end of June / beginning of July with the Kremerata Baltica festival in the Latvian town of Sigulda.
Kremer 1993 published the book childhood Splitter, 1997 overtones and 2003 between worlds. The books contain autobiographical narratives and arguments with artistic themes.
Kremer has with numerous major orchestras and conductors ( Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Valery Gergiev, Claudio Abbado and Sir Neville Marriner ) and played over 100 CDs for the label, Melodiya, Teldec, BIS Records, Nonesuch, Sony, ECM and German Grammophon. His chamber music partners include, inter alia, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Oleg corn mountain, Eduard Brunner, Kim Kashkashian, Isabelle van Keulen, Valery Afanasyev and Tabea Zimmermann.
He played numerous works by contemporary composers, and took them on (as world premieres: Sofia Gubajdulinas Offertory, Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa for Two Violins and Stabat Mater, Michael Nyman's first violin concerto ). Apart from the classical composers he has works by Alfred Schnittke, Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov, Luigi Nono, Aribert Reimann, Peteris Vasks, Kaija Saariaho and John Adams in the program. In the nineties he cared extensively around the compositional work of Astor Piazzolla.
Prizes and awards
- Federal Cross of Merit
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
- 3rd place at the Concours Reine Elisabeth 1967
- 1st place at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1969
- 1st place at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1970
- Frankfurt Music Prize and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 1982
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize 1989
- The Latvian Great Music Award, Latvia 1995 and 2004
- Rheingau Music Prize 1996
- ECHO Klassik
- Bremer Musikfest Prize 1999
- Grand Prix du Disque
- German Record Prize
- Moscow's Triumph Prize 2000
- Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas in 2000
- UNESCO Music Prize in 2001
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2004
- SAECULUM the Glashütte Original Music Festival Prize as part of the Dresden Music Festival 2007
- Rolf Schock Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2008
- Culture Award of German Freemasons 2009
- Culture Prize of the Province of Burgenland in 2011
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2011
Works
- Childhood Splitter, Munich; Zurich: Piper 1993, ISBN 3-492-03614-7
- Oasis curls house. 15 years Chamber Music Festival - Kremerata Musica 1981-1996, Salzburg; Vienna: Residenz- Verl. 1996, ISBN 3-7017-1057-0
- Overtones, Salzburg; Vienna: Residenz- Verl. 1997, ISBN 3-7017-1063-5
- Between Worlds, Munich; Zurich: Piper 2003, ISBN 3-492-04459- X
Bibliography
- Wolf -Eberhard von Lewinski: Gidon Kremer. Interviews, facts, opinions ( Great Artists ), Mainz: Schott 1982, ISBN 3-7957-8214-7