Shaghajegh Nosrati

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Schaghajegh Nosrati (born April 16, 1989 in Bochum ) is a German pianist .

Life

Schaghajegh Nosrati's parents, Masoud and Faravak Nosrati, came from Iran . After the Islamic Revolution in 1979 they were subjected to massive political persecution, had to break off their studies and fled to Germany in 1983. Classical music traditionally played a major role in the family and the daughter received her first piano lessons at the age of only 4, before she became a student of the Recklinghausen pianist and piano researcher Rainer Maria Klaas at the age of eight . In 2007 she was accepted as a young student by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . In 2015 she completed her master's degree at this institute with Christopher Oakden and in 2017 the concert exam with Ewa Kupiec .

She received further artistic suggestions from Robert Levin , Angela Hewitt , Murray Perahia , Daniel Barenboim and András Schiff .

successes

In 2006 she won first prize in the 16 to 18 age group as well as the special prize for "Modern" at the Rotary Youth Piano Competition in Essen . In 2014 she won second prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. In 2015 she made her first sound recording with a recording of the Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach . This recording was positively received by international critics.

In December 2016 she made her debut with the German Chamber Orchestra in Berlin in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic and performed the piano concertos in D minor BWV 1052 and E major BWV 1053 by Johann Sebastian Bach in the version of the German composer Frank Zabel (* 1968). In this foot ends on new musicological research by Schaghajegh Nosrati and Frank Zabel Arrangement with woodwind join, including oboe, oboe d'amore and English horn with the known string section.

Musical focus

Schaghajegh Nosrati's repertoire includes standard pianistic literature from the baroque to the modern. In addition to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, she also focuses on works by unknown great composers such as Charles Valentin Alkan , whose works , which only a few pianists in the world tackle due to their enormous technical difficulties, regularly perform in her recitals .

In addition, she has a special affinity for the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff , in which she expresses the unity of clarity, stringent formative power and musical poetry in a way that goes back to the musical intention of the composer through numerous self-recorded sound recordings Expression. Among other things, her interpretation of Rachmaninov could be heard in December 2016 at the Bochum Music Center as part of a concert in which she performed the rhapsody on a Paganini theme with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra under the direction of German-American conductor Steven Sloane .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nadja Juskowiak: Iranian family uses opportunities in freedom. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 27, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Biography at Reinicke Artists , accessed on August 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ rondo magazine
  4. ↑ classic magazine
  5. ↑ Berliner Philharmoniker: Concert with the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, Gabriel Adorján, Schaghajegh Nosrati. In: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ repertoire Schaghajegh Nosrati. In: www.nosrati-pianist.com. Retrieved July 31, 2016 .
  7. ↑ BOCHUMER SYMPHONICS: Detail. In: www.bochumer-symphoniker.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Nosrati, Shaghajegh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum