Valentina Babor
Valentina Babor ( born July 8, 1989 in Munich) is a German pianist.
Musical Career
Valentina Babor received her first piano lessons at the age of five years. At eight, she gave her first recital and four years later was listed among the exceptions talent at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Institute for gifted funding. Her teachers were Ludmila Gourari, Karl -Heinz Kammerling and Elisso Wirssaladze. In June 2012, she graduated with highest honors her soloist diploma with Gerhard Oppitz at the University for Music and Theater in Munich. Since 2013, it continues her studies as a master student at the Finnish pianist Antti Siirala.
She has performed alongside numerous radio and television appearances already in many prestigious concert halls and festivals, including, inter alia, in St. Petersburg, Vienna, Paris, London, Beijing, Madrid, Belgrade and Rome, as well as the " Kissinger Sommer ", " Braunschweig Classix Festival ", the" Music Festival in Bad Reichenhall "," La Biennale di Venezia ' in Venice, at the "Festival Internacional de Ushuaia " in Argentina, " Wilhelm Kempff Foundation " Positano or the " Palau de la Música Catalana " in Barcelona.
She played among others with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Central German Philharmonic Orchestra, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen. As a chamber musician she has performed among others several times with Graham Waterhouse, Clément Courtin, Konstantin Sell Home, Sebastian Klinger, Maximilian Hornung, jury Revich, Valery Sokolov and Boris Kucharsky.
In December 2010 she gave the world premiere of the complete piano works from the newly published "The Book of Stars " by Wilfried Hiller. In October 2011, she designed together with soloists of the Munich Philharmonic under the Liszt Festival in Munich, the world premiere of the piano quintet " Rhapsody Macabre" by Graham Waterhouse. Besides her work as a soloist, she founded in 2012, two chamber music ensembles, the " European Chamber Ensemble" Munich and the " Bell Artis Trio ".
She is international representative of the " Amadeus International School of Music" in Vienna and has been active since 2012 in numerous concerts and projects the school for gifted young musicians.
Prizes and awards
At age six, she was making music a first prize at youth; two first prizes she won the Munich Piano podium of the youth. In the following years, she won four times the first prize at " Grotrian -Steinweg piano competition " and two further first federal awards for " Young Musicians ". In 1999 she was awarded the " piano podium youth Munich " as "the biggest rising star of the year " and received in 2006 the Classic Award "Rising Stars". In March 2014, it was honored with the internationally advertised "German Pianist Award " as a finalist.
Family
Valentina Babor comes from a family of artists in Munich. Her mother is a ballet dancer, her father an architect. Her maternal grandfather was the Swedish UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the paternal grandfather was a pianist, and later became. Chemist as the founder of the natural cosmetics company Babor Cosmetics in Aachen
Discography
- Russian Soul. ( Along with jury Revich ). ARS Produktion, 2012 EAN 4,260,052,381,212th