Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis (Hebrew עברי גיטליס; born August 22, 1922 according to other sources 1927 in Haifa, then League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is an Israeli- French violinist.
Life
Gitlis comes from a family of Russian immigrants, his mother was a singer, his grandfather Cantor. At the age of six, he received his first lessons. At age nine he gave his first concerts, with ten years of Bronisław Huberman became aware of him and made sure that he is sent to further studies in Paris. There he was taught by three very famous violinists Carl Flesch, George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud. During the war, his mother and him to escape to England, where he first worked in a munitions factory, in order to make its contribution to the war against the National Socialist German Reich succeeded, after which he became involved with countless concerts in the troop entertainment.
The mid-1950s he took relevant " warhorses " of the violin literature with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (aka Pro Arte Orchestra ), which violin concertos by Tchaikovsky, Max Bruch, Felix Mendelssohn and Sibelius, but also the second violin concerto by Béla Bartók and its Sonata for solo violin.
During these years he became a dedicated advocate of the new and latest music, his concerts had cult status in the Parisian intellectual Existenzialistenkreisen. In the 1960s recordings followed the violin concertos 1 and 2 of Paganini, but also recordings of violin concertos of classical modernism, Igor Stravinsky about by Paul Hindemith and Alban Berg (including the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Wind ). 1965, there was an acclaimed performance with the Berlin Philharmonic with Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 1, however two years later he was playing a violin evening before half- empty stands.
In May 1968 he played with Martha Argerich in Paris on the road. In 1968 he joined forces with Yoko Ono in the Dirty Mac Project at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus on (on DVD re-released ).
In 1971 he gave the premiere of the solo piece Piece for Ivry by Bruno Maderna, 1972, the premiere of a solo piece by Iannis Xenakis. In 1972 he took part in a large series of concerts in Tel Aviv in memory of Bronislaw Huberman in part, to the met the then world's top violinists, including the very young Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman. Again he played Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1.
In 1980 his autobiography ( in French). In 1988 he became ambassador of UNESCO.
In the 1990s, a CD was released in Japan with relevant Zugabestückchen, where he once again proves his violin step brilliance of questionable material. Mature high he gave concerts in May 2001 with Martha Argerich, where he played the Kreutzer Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven and the violin sonatas by César Franck and Claude Debussy.
He plays a Stradivarius, nicknamed " Sancy " of 1713.