Ariadne Daskalakis

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Ariadne Daskalakis (born December 1, 1969 in Boston, USA ) is a violinist of Greek - American origin who lives in Germany and, in addition to her concert activities, is professor of violin at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

biography

Daskalakis grew up in a family of first generation Greek immigrants in the United States . Trained on the violin at an early age, she received lessons from Eric Rosenblith from the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, among others . She attended the Winsor School in Boston and then studied violin at the Juilliard School in New York (with Szymon Goldberg ) and at the Berlin University of the Arts (with Ilan Gronich and Thomas Brandis ), where she passed her concert exam in 1999. In addition to her musical training, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1993 .

From 1992 to 2003 she worked closely with the Ensemble Oriol Berlin , which played mostly without a conductor, and with whom she also appeared as concertmaster and soloist. In 1994/95, Ariadne Daskalakis and other leading members of this ensemble founded the Manon Quartet Berlin, which performed numerous concerts and several CD recordings until 2007. As a soloist she has played with the Potsdam Chamber Academy , the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , the Northwest German Philharmonic , the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , the English Chamber Orchestra , the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Philharmonic , the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Athens National Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Munich, the Academy for Early Music Berlin , the Dortmund Philharmonic , the Cologne Academy , the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, the Norsk Barokkorkester and Concerto Köln . Her chamber music partners at Duo - recitals include the pianist Paolo Giacometti, Roglit Ishay, Anthony Spiri, Nina Tichman and Miri Yampolsky.

Her repertoire covers old and new music equally and in a wide range. In 2004 she was involved in the world premiere of Caspar Johannes Walter's violin concerto "Drawings" in the musica viva series in Munich, and in 2005 in the Vienna world premiere of the work "Herr K und Frau N", which Christoph Coburger performed for her and the violist Sebastian Gottschick wrote. In 2011 she worked as a soloist with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in the production “4x4”, choreographed by Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests) based on Vivaldi's “ Four Seasons ”. She is co-founder of the Ensemble Vintage Cologne and plays classical repertoire with gut strings, historical bow and fortepiano in historically informed performance practice.

In 2012 she founded the international summer chamber music festival Music from Land's End Wareham in Wareham, Massachusetts (USA). In the same year she was also involved in founding the International Chamber Music Week of the European Academy of Music and Performing Arts Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano . Since 2015 she has been the artistic director of the Palazzo Ricci.

After winning prizes at various regional competitions in 1985/1986 (Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts, Brookline Concerto Competition, Mystic Valley Concerto Competition), she was awarded the Framingham State University's Christa McAuliffe Medallion, which was first awarded on this occasion, in 1986 and in 1987 with the Francis Lanier Award from the New England Conservatory. She won other prizes at the Ibolyka Gyarfas Competition in Berlin (1992), the ARD Munich International Music Competition (1998) and the St. Louis Symphony Strings Competition (2000). She was also a scholarship holder of the Mozart Society Dortmund (2000).

Former students of Ariadne Daskalakis have permanent positions at the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Funkhausorchester Cologne , the Orchester philharmonique du Luxembourg , the Gewandhausorchester , the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn , the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the International Ensemble Modern Academy , the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra , the Geneva Camerata , the Aachen Symphony Orchestra and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . She also looked after award winners at international competitions in Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan.

Discography

  • Jō Kondō : Bonjin. Chamber Music. Ensemble L`Art pour L`Art. Wergo 2016.
  • Ferdinand Ries : Violin Sonatas. Ariadne Daskalakis, Wolfgang Brunner. CPO 2015.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : Rosary Sonatas. Ariadne Daskalakis, Ensemble Vintage Cologne. UNTIL 2015.
  • Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda : Violin Concertinos, Overtures. Ariadne Daskalakis, Cologne Academy / Michael Alexander Willens. CPO 2015.
  • "7 With One Stroke". Concertos by Antonio Vivaldi . Ariadne Daskalakis, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Tacet 2013.
  • Georg Friedrich Handel : Complete Violin Sonatas. Ensemble Vintage Cologne, Ariadne Daskalakis. Naxos 2010. (“Selection of the Month” in The Strad Magazine)
  • Witold Lutosławski : Complete Music for Violin and Piano | Karol Szymanowski : Myths | Leoš Janáček : Violin Sonata. Ariadne Daskalakis, Miri Yampolsky. Naxos 2009.
  • Joseph Haydn : Concerts for Solo Instruments - Double Concerto in F major, Hob.XVIII: 6. Ariadne Daskalakis (violin), Harald Hoeren (fortepiano), Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Müller-Brühl. Naxos 2007.
  • Giuseppe Tartini : Five Violin Concertos. Ariadne Daskalakis, Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Müller-Brühl. Naxos 2005. (CD of the month at Naxos, awarded as “Concerto Selection” by The Strad magazine)
  • Joseph Joachim Raff : Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 & 4. Ariadne Daskalakis, Roglit Ishay, Tudor 2004.
  • Joseph Joachim Raff: Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 5. Ariadne Daskalakis, Roglit Ishay. Tudor 2004.
  • Gabriel Fauré : L'horizon fantastique: pièces pour piano et violon. Ariadne Daskalakis, Roglit Ishay. Carpe Diem 2003.
  • Matteis , Biber, Baltzar , Corelli , JS Bach : Violino Arioso. Ariadne Daskalakis, Helene Lerch, Gabriella Strümpel. Tudor 2000.
  • Schubert , Purcell , Janáček, Manon Quartet Berlin - 1998 - live recording, Ariadne Daskalakis, Bernhard Forck, Sebastian Gottschick, Anna Carewe. IPPNW 1998.
  • Saint-Saëns , Debussy , Mozart , Brahms : Ariadne. Ariadne Daskalakis, Roglit Ishay. Carpe Diem 1996.
  • Purcell, Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Berg , Manon Quartet Berlin - 1995 - live recording, Ariadne Daskalakis, Bernhard Forck, Sebastian Gottschick, Anna Carewe. IPPNW 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Mathieu: It doesn't just fall from the sky . In: Aachener Zeitung, January 28, 2012, number 24.
  2. ^ Markus Schwering: Between Boston and Baroque . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 89, 15./16. April 2006 (last accessed December 23, 2015).
  3. ^ Julia Gaß: Dortmund Philharmonic. Spring in concert - lovely and brutal . In: Ruhr Nachrichten, February 12, 2014 (last accessed December 23, 2015).
  4. ^ Benjamin Dunham: Duo pay homage to the master ( Memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wareham Courier, March 18, 2015, accessed August 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ Carsten Fastner: Good News & Bad News. In: Falter 44/05; P. Jarolin: A start has been made. In: Kurier, November 1, 2005.
  6. ↑ Olaf Weiden: Passion without a duty roster. In: Kölnische Rundschau, January 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ Chris Shott: Acclaimed musicians enamor overflow crowd at Wareham Free Library ( Memento from October 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wareham Courier, July 31, 2015, accessed August 10, 2020.
  8. ^ Robin Stowell: Stylish accounts of Handel from a German-based ensemble . In: The Strad, January 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Daskalakis, Ariadne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist, music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1st December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston