Jascha Heifetz Date of birth 02.02.1901 Date of death 10.12.1987 Profession instrumentalist Country USA Writing a biographical sketch of Heifetz is infinitely difficult. It seems that he has not yet told anyone in detail about his life. He is named the most secretive person in the world in the article by Nicole Hirsch “Jascha Heifetz – Emperor of the Violin”, which is one of the few containing interesting information about his life, personality and character. He seemed to fence himself off from the world around him with a proud wall of alienation, allowing only a few, the chosen ones, to look into it. “He hates crowds, noise, dinners after the…

Tauno Hannikainen Date of birth 26.02.1896 Date of death 12.10.1968 Profession conductor, instrumentalist Country Finland Tauno Hannikainen was perhaps the most famous conductor in Finland. His creative activity began in the twenties, and since then he has played an important role in the musical life of his country. One of the representatives of a hereditary musical family, the son of the famous choir conductor and composer Pekka Juhani Hannikainen, he graduated from the Helsinki Conservatory with two specialties – cello and conducting. After that, Hannikainen took lessons from Pablo Casals and initially performed as a cellist. Hannikainen’s debut as a conductor took place in 1921 at the Helsinki Opera House,…

Ivan Khandoshkin Date of birth 1747 Date of death 1804 Profession composer, instrumentalist Country Russia Russia of the XNUMXth century was a country of contrasts. Asian luxury coexisted with poverty, education – with extreme ignorance, the refined humanism of the first Russian enlighteners – with savagery and serfdom. At the same time, an original Russian culture developed rapidly. At the beginning of the century, Peter I was still cutting the beards of the boyars, overcoming their fierce resistance; in the middle of the century, the Russian nobility spoke elegant French, operas and ballets were staged at the court; the court orchestra, composed of renowned musicians, was considered one of the…

César Franck Date of birth 10.12.1822 Date of death 08.11.1890 Profession composer, instrumentalist, teacher Country France …There is no purer name than that of this great simple-hearted soul. Almost everyone who approached Frank experienced his irresistible charm… R. Rollan Franck is an unusual figure in French musical art, an outstanding, peculiar personality. R. Rolland wrote about him on behalf of the hero of the novel Jean Christophe: “… this unearthly Frank, this saint from music managed to carry through a life full of hardships and despised labor, the unfading clarity of a patient soul, and hence that humble smile that overshadowed with light the good of his work.” K. Debussy,…

Amanda Forsyth Date of birth 1966 Profession instrumentalist Country Canada Canadian cellist and Juno Award winner Amanda Forsythe performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles with unfailing success. Her warm, clear sound and impeccable technique have already captivated audiences in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, as well as New Zealand and Australia. Amanda Forsyth regularly performs with famous orchestras at the world’s largest festivals and concert venues. After taking a sabbatical as first cello with the Canadian National Center for the Arts Symphony, Forsyth recently appeared as a soloist with the orchestra. In November 2012, after a performance with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in…

Jan Vogler Date of birth 18.02.1964 Profession instrumentalist Country Germany Jan Vogler was born in Berlin in 1964. After the construction of the wall, the family remained in the eastern part of the city, which was not a tragedy for the future quartermaster of the two forums, since Vogler’s ancestors came from the eastern part of Germany, many of whom played music in Saxony. At the age of twenty, he became the first concertmaster in the cello group at the State Saxon Chapel. Since 1997 he has been performing in this group as a soloist. Today he is one of the most famous German cellists. Collaborates with leading contemporary composers…

Alexander Fiseisky Date of birth 1950 Profession instrumentalist Country Russia, USSR Honored Artist of Russia, soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society, professor of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music Alexander Fiseisky conducts a versatile creative activity as a performer, teacher, organizer, researcher… Alexander Fiseisky completed his education at the Moscow Conservatory with brilliant teachers V. Gornostaeva (piano) and L. Roizman (organ). He has performed with many eminent orchestras, soloists and singers. The musician’s partners were V. Gergiev and V. Fedoseev, V. Minin and A. Korsakov, E. Haupt and M. Höfs, E. Obraztsova and V. Levko. His performing arts have been presented in more than 30 countries around the…

Maxim Fedotov Date of birth 24.07.1961 Profession conductor, instrumentalist Country Russia, USSR Maxim Fedotov is a Russian violinist and conductor, laureate and winner of the largest international violin competitions (named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, named after N. Paganini, the international competition in Tokyo), People’s Artist of Russia, laureate of the Moscow Government Prize, professor of the Moscow Conservatory, head violin and viola department of the Russian Academy of Music. The European press calls the violinist “Russian Paganini”. The musician performed in the most famous halls of the world: the Barbican Hall (London), the Symphony Hall (Birmingham), the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Konzerthaus (Berlin), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Gasteig (Munich), Alte Oper (Frankfurt-Main) ,…

Alexei Utkin Date of birth 1957 Profession conductor, instrumentalist Country Russia, USSR The name of Alexei Utkin is widely known in Russia and abroad. A huge natural talent, a brilliant musical education received within the walls of the Moscow Conservatory, an excellent school that Utkin went through playing with Vladimir Spivakov in the Moscow Virtuosos made him a very prominent figure in the modern musical world. “Golden oboe of Russia”, Alexei Utkin brought the oboe as a solo instrument to the Russian stage. According to critics, he “turned the oboe, an extras instrument, into the protagonist of amazing events.” Starting to perform solo works written for the oboe, he subsequently…

Mikhail Terian Date of birth 01.07.1905 Date of death 13.10.1987 Profession conductor, instrumentalist Country the USSR Soviet violist, conductor, teacher, People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR (1965), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1946). Terian has been known to music lovers for many years as the violist of the Komitas Quartet. He devoted more than twenty years of his life to quartet music-making (1924-1946). In this area, he began to try his hand even during the years of study at the Moscow Conservatory (1919-1929), where his teachers, first on the violin, and then on the viola were G. Dulov and K. Mostras. Until 1946, Terian played in a quartet, and was…