Nicolas Koeckert

Nicolas Koeckert ( born November 9, 1979 in Munich) is a German violinist.

Biography

The German -Brazilian violinist Nicolas Koeckert, came from a musical family, received at the age of 5 years already his first violin from his grandfather. His academic studies, he began with 16 years at the University of Music Würzburg with Professor Grigori Zhislin. Nicolas studied from 1998 at the Cologne Music Academy with Prof. Zakhar Bron and since then occurs regularly as a soloist. His artistic diploma he put in Cologne in 2005 with honors and finished his studies in 2007 with the concert exam. In 2001, the young violinist was awarded first prize at the International Competition for Young Violinists Novosibirsk, Russia, the special prize for the best interpretation of the compulsory piece and the Culture Prize of the city of Novosibirsk. Then, in 2002, Nicolas Koeckert was the first German violinist who won prizes at the world famous " International Tchaikovsky Competition" in Moscow. In the same year awarded him the Free State of Bavaria, in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a violinist with the Kunstförderpreis. In 2003 he was again awarded at the " Montreal International Musical Competition". In the same year Nicolas also won the second prize at the " International Liana Issakadze Competition" in St. Petersburg.

Concert career

Nicolas has performed with leading orchestras. Among other things, he played with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Brasilia, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Georgian chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra and Capella Istropolitana and renowned conductors as Lawrence Foster, Sir Colin Davis, Mikhail Jurowski, Jonathan Nott, Asher Fisch, Jose Serebrier, Christoph Poppen, Saulius Sondeckis, Andris Nelsons, Theodor Guschlbauer, Ari Rasilainen, Ira Levin, Nicholas Milton, Marc Piollet, Emil Tabakov, Victor Pablo Pérez, Osvaldo Ferreira, Fabio Mechetti, Benjamin Northey, Gabriel Feltz and Markus Poschner in Europe, Brazil, Asia, Mexico and North America.

Recordings

For the Bavarian Radio, the young violinist took several works on " ballad" Solo Sonata No.3 by Eugène Ysaÿe, Edward Grieg's C minor Sonata, the Sonata by Maurice Ravel, Tchaikovsky different pieces, Bartók solo sonata, Antonio Bazzini " dance of goblins "," Sibelius ' Violin Concerto and the 2nd Violin Concerto Szymanowsky. CD "Russian and Slavic edits " by Fritz Kreisler was selected in the journal The Strad for the best shot in December 2005 and from Naxos Germany as CD of the month June 2004. his CD for Naxos with edits by Igor Frolov with his pianist Kristina Miller Koeckert came in January 2008 on the market. Nicolas also for Naxos took in April 2008, the Khachaturian Violin Concerto and the Concerto- with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier, which came on the market in May 2009. past four years taught Nicolas regularly gives master classes at home and abroad.

Prizes and awards

  • 2001 1st prize at the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk
  • 2002 Award Winner at the International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow
  • 2002 Art Prize of North Bavaria
  • 2003 prize winner at the Montreal International Music Competition,
  • 2003 2nd prize at the International Violin Competition in St. Petersburg
  • 2005 an award for his CD recording Kreisler transcriptions for " Strad Selection" in the journal The Strad.

Instrument

Nicolas Koeckert plays an instrument by Omobono Stradivarius from 1711th

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