Lera Auerbach
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| Born | October 21, 1973 Chelyabinsk, Russia |
Lera Auerbach (Russian: Лера Авербах; b. October 21, 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is one of the most widely performed composers of the new generation.[1]
She was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. Auerbach continues the tradition of virtuoso pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the youngest composer on the roster of the prestigious international music publishing company Hans Sikorski well-known as a home to Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Kancheli. Auerbach's music is characterized by its stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language.
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[edit] Career
Auerbach made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002 performing her own Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica. Ms. Auerbach's music has been presented at Carnegie Hall each season since then.[2] In 2005, Lera Auerbach was awarded the prestigious Hindemith Prize by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany.
Auerbach's compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras and ballet companies including Gidon Kremer, the Kremerata Baltica, David Finckel, Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Tokyo, Kuss and Petersen String Quartets, the SWR and NDR (Hannover) Symphony Orchestras, NDR Hamburg and the Royal Danish Ballet. Lera Auerbach’s music has also been commissioned and performed by leading Festivals throughout the world including Caramoor, Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein.
Lera Auerbach has appeared as solo pianist at such prestigious venues as the Bolshoi Saal of the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo's Opera City, New York's Lincoln Center, Munich's Herkulessaal, Oslo's Konzerthaus, Chicago's Symphony Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center.
A new commission by The Royal Danish Ballet, to celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary, was Lera Auerbach's second collaboration with choreographer John Neumeier. The ballet is a modern rendition of the classic fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid' and was premiered successfully in April 2005.
Lera Auerbach is also a writer. She has published six volumes of poetry and prose in Russian.
[edit] Recordings
- 24 Preludes (BIS 2003)
- Tolstoy's Waltz (BIS 2004)
- Auerbach plays Mozart (ARABESQUE 2005)
- Ballet for a Lonely Violinist (BIS 2005)
- Preludes and Dreams (BIS 2006)
- Cetera Desunt, String Quartet No. 3 (CAPRICCIO 2006)
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Jerry Bowles: "The Total Package", Sequenza 21, Wednesday, August 10, 2005 http://www.sequenza21.com/2005/08/lera-auerbach-total-package.html
- ^ Carnegie Hall Schedule Publications 05.01.2002 Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Gidon Kremer, violin; Lera Auerbach, piano and Kremerata Baltica) 10.07.2003 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (Philippe Quint Violin, Adam Neiman, Piano) 2004 20.02.2004 Sonata for Solo Cello (Christophor Miroshnikov, cello) 04.01.2005 Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon - (American Youth Symphony) 2006 Trio for Violin Piano and Orchestra (Clavier Trio) 03.11.2007 Oskolki for Violin and Piano (Borok-Ponochevny Duo)
