George Enescu Date of birth 19.08.1881 Date of death 04.05.1955 Profession composer, conductor, instrumentalist Country Romania “I do not hesitate to place him in the very first row of composers of our era… This applies not only to composer creativity, but also to all the numerous aspects of the musical activity of a brilliant artist – violinist, conductor, pianist… Among those musicians that I know. Enescu was the most versatile, reaching high perfection in his creations. His human dignity, his modesty and moral strength aroused admiration in me … ”In these words of P. Casals, an accurate portrait of J. Enescu, a wonderful musician, a classic of the Romanian composer…

louis spohr Date of birth 05.04.1784 Date of death 22.10.1859 Profession composer, instrumentalist, teacher Country Germany Spohr entered the history of music as an outstanding violinist and major composer who wrote operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental works. Especially popular were his violin concertos, which served in the development of the genre as a link between classical and romantic art. In the operatic genre, Spohr, along with Weber, Marschner and Lortzing, developed national German traditions. The direction of Spohr’s work was romantic, sentimentalist. True, his first violin concertos were still close in style to the classical concertos of Viotti and Rode, but subsequent ones, starting with the Sixth, became more…

Henryk Szeryng Date of birth 22.09.1918 Date of death 03.03.1988 Profession instrumentalist Country Mexico, Poland Polish violinist who lived and worked in Mexico from the mid-1940s. Schering studied piano as a child, but soon took up the violin. On the recommendation of the famous violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in 1928 he went to Berlin, where he studied with Carl Flesch, and in 1933 Schering had his first major solo performance: in Warsaw, he performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with an orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. In the same year, he moved to Paris, where he improved his skills (according to Schering himself, George Enescu and Jacques Thibaut had a great influence on…

Daniel Shafran Date of birth 13.01.1923 Date of death 07.02.1997 Profession instrumentalist Country Russia, USSR Cellist, People’s Artist of the USSR. Born in Leningrad. Parents are musicians (father is a cellist, mother is a pianist). He began studying music at the age of eight and a half. Daniil Shafran’s first teacher was his father, Boris Semyonovich Shafran, who for three decades led the cello group of the Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 10, D. Shafran entered the Special Children’s Group at the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied under the guidance of Professor Alexander Yakovlevich Shtrimer. In 1937, Shafran, at the age of 14, won first prize at…

Denis Shapovalov Date of birth 11.12.1974 Profession instrumentalist Country Russia Denis Shapovalov was born in 1974 in the city of Tchaikovsky. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky in the class of the People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor N.N. Shakhovskaya. D. Shapovalov played his first concert with the orchestra at the age of 11. In 1995 he received a special prize “Best Hope” at an international competition in Australia, in 1997 he was awarded a scholarship from the M. Rostropovich Foundation. The main victory of the young musician was the 1998st Prize and the Gold Medal of the XNUMXth International Tchaikovsky Competition. P.I. Tchaikovsky in XNUMX, “A…

Sarah Chang Date of birth 10.12.1980 Profession instrumentalist Country USA American Sarah Chang is recognized worldwide as one of the most amazing violinists of her generation. Sarah Chang was born in 1980 in Philadelphia, where she began learning to play the violin at the age of 4. Almost immediately she was enrolled in the prestigious Juilliard School of Music (New York), where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. When Sarah was 8 years old, she auditioned with Zubin Meta and Riccardo Muti, after which she immediately received invitations to perform with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestras. At the age of 9, Chang released her first CD “Debut” (EMI Classics),…

Pinchas zukerman Date of birth 16.07.1948 Profession conductor, instrumentalist, pedagogue Country Israel Pinchas Zukerman has been a unique figure in the world of music for four decades. His musicality, brilliant technique and the highest performing standards invariably delight listeners and critics. For the fourteenth consecutive season, Zuckerman has served as Music Director of the National Center for the Arts in Ottawa, and for the fourth season as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Over the past decade, Pinchas Zukerman has achieved recognition both as a conductor and as a soloist, collaborating with the world’s leading bands and including the most complex orchestral works in his repertoire. Pinchas…

Nikolai Znaider Date of birth 05.07.1975 Profession conductor, instrumentalist Country Denmark Nikolai Znaider is one of the outstanding violinists of our time and an artist who is among the most versatile performers of his generation. His work combines the talents of a soloist, conductor and chamber musician. As guest conductor Nikolai Znaider has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden State Capella Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Since 2010, he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Theater…

Frank Peter Zimmermann Date of birth 27.02.1965 Profession instrumentalist Country Germany German musician Frank Peter Zimmerman is one of the most sought-after violinists of our time. He was born in Duisburg in 1965. At the age of five he began to learn to play the violin, at the age of ten he performed for the first time accompanied by an orchestra. His teachers were famous musicians: Valery Gradov, Sashko Gavriloff and German Krebbers. Frank Peter Zimmermann collaborates with the world’s best orchestras and conductors, plays on major stages and international festivals in Europe, the USA, Japan, South America and Australia. Thus, among the events of the 2016/17 season are performances…

Paul Hindemith Date of birth 16.11.1895 Date of death 28.12.1963 Profession composer, conductor, instrumentalist Country Germany Our destiny is the music of human creations And listen silently to the music of the worlds. Summon the minds of distant generations For a fraternal spiritual meal. G. Hesse P. Hindemith is the largest German composer, one of the recognized classics of music of the XNUMXth century. Being a personality of a universal scale (conductor, viola and viola d’amore performer, music theorist, publicist, poet – author of the texts of his own works) – Hindemith was just as universal in his composing activity. There is no such type and genre of music that…