Guy Braunstein
Guy Braunstein (born 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli violinist. He was from 2000 to 2013 First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Life
, At the age of seven, he began learning the violin. On his way to a professional musician, he studied with Chaim Taub and later in New York at Glenn Dicterow and Pinchas Zuckerman.
From a young age Braunstein began his international career as a soloist and as a chamber musician and has since appeared with many major orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra Copenhagen as well as the radio - Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, the Filarmonica della Scala and the Berlin Philharmonic, to name just a few.
His success led him quickly to the most important stages in the world, and he has worked with musicians such as Isaac Stern, András Schiff, Zubin Mehta, Maurizio Pollini, Vladimir Fedosejew, Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Barenboim, Leoba Brown, Sir Simon Rattle, Mitsuko Uchida, Andrey Boreyko, Lang Lang, Jonathan Nott, Emanuel Ax, Gary Bertini, Pierre -Laurent Aimard, Semyon Bychkov and Angelika Kirsch camp worked.
Between 2003 and 2007, Braunstein was a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin and since 2006 has been the Artistic Director of Rolandseck Festival, to which he invites international stars such as Emmanuel Pahud, Hélène Grimaud, Amihai Grosz and François Leleux regularly.
Braunstein was appointed in 2000 to the first concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, with whom he had appeared in 1992 as one of the soloists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto under the baton of Zubin Mehta. In the summer of 2013 Brown Stone finished his work at the Berliner Philharmoniker, in order to concentrate on his solo career.
Highlights of recent times were solo performances with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the German State Philharmonic of the Rhineland -Palatinate, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sofia Philharmonic. In addition, Braunstein intensively with chamber music and gives recitals in London, Paris, Berlin, Luxembourg, Jerusalem, Frankfurt, Croatia and Poland.
In recent years, Braunstein has been engaged in Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
In the 2011/12 season was Guy Braunstein of the "Artist in Residence " of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Braunstein plays on a violin, which was built in 1679 by Francesco Ruggieri.