Barbara Buntrock
Barbara Buntrock (born February 18, 1982 in Wuppertal ) is a German violist and university teacher.
Life
Buntrock received her first violin lessons at the age of five. Since 1991 she has been a student of Maria Szabados-Racz at the Bergische Musikschule Wuppertal . She was the first winner of the national youth music competition five times . From 1998 to 2000 Barbara Buntrock was a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra , most recently as deputy concertmaster . She began her viola studies in 2001 at the Cologne University of Music , Wuppertal department with Werner Dickel. Since the winter semester 2002/2003 she has been studying with Barbara Westphal at the Musikhochschule Lübeck , where she received her concert diploma in July 2008. Supported by the Gerd-Bucerius-Scholarship of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben , she spent a year abroad (September 2005 to May 2006) at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Heidi Castleman. She then completed additional studies at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Lars Anders Tomter , with the aim of obtaining her concert exam. Buntrock was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . She also attended master classes at the Verbier Festival Academy , the International Music Academy of Switzerland and with Walter Levin ( LaSalle String Quartet ), Gábor Takács-Nagy , Lukas Hagen ( Hagen Quartet ) and Eberhard Feltz.
As a soloist and as a chamber musician , she has performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra , the Bergische Symphoniker , the Bochumer Symphoniker and the Südwestfälische Philharmonie .
From February 2009 to December 2010 Buntrock was the first solo viola of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . She plays a viola by Antonio Mariani , built around 1650 , which was previously played by Lionel Tertis . In September 2011 she founded the "Festival 3B", a festival for chamber music in the Immanuelskirche in Wuppertal, as artistic director .
Buntrock has been professor for viola at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf since 2015 .
Awards
- Five-time winner of the national youth music competition
- 2004 winner of the Theodor Rogler Foundation at the ARD International Music Competition
- 2005 Dr. Smooth at the Concours de Genève
- 2006 Zonta Music Prize and a grant from DMW ( German Music Competition )
- 2007 1st prize at the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition
- 2008 winner of the Federal President's grant at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition
- 2008 From the Heydt sponsorship award of the city of Wuppertal
- 2008 Special prize for the best interpretation of a work by JS Bach at the International Primrose Competition in Arizona , USA
Web links
- Homepage of Barbara Buntrock
- Biography at the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben
- Press release from the city of Wuppertal
- Short biography at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin
- Homepage of the Festival 3B
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buntrock, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |