Božo Paradžik

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Božo Paradžik (* 1969 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian double bass player and university professor .

Life

Božo Paradžik is the son of the musician Drago Paradžik (1940-2018). From the age of 13 he received double bass lessons from Tihomir Vidović in Sarajevo and studied from 1987 to 1992 with Jiří Hudec in Prague .

As a solo double bass player, he first played in important symphony orchestras such as the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. In this context, he worked with numerous well-known conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Georges Prêtre , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Neville Marriner , Gennady Rozhdestvensky , Carlo Maria Giulini and Franz Welser-Möst .

After the release of his first CD on EMI / Virgin Classics together with the pianist Ulrich Rademacher in 2000, Paradžik became world famous as a soloist. Since then he has given up his orchestral work - apart from a few special projects - and plays worldwide as a soloist and in the context of chamber concerts.

In addition to his concert activities, Paradžik first taught as a guest lecturer at the Jan Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam (2000–2001) and then as a professor at the Detmold Academy of Music (2001–2004). Since 2003 he has been professor for double bass at the Freiburg University of Music and since 2010 also at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences . He is also visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and regularly gives master classes in Amsterdam, The Hague, London, Lyon, Manchester and Paris.

His first compositional work Simbi , a concertante composition for double bass and piano, was written in 2008.

In 2009 a documentary about his life and work was filmed for the Croatian TV channel HRT (cultural program HRT2, producer Tihomir Štivičić).

In 2015 he received the Special Recognition Award for his solo performance from the International Society of Bassists .

Publications

  • 2000: The double bass - elephant or swan with the pianist Ulrich Rademacher, EMI-Electrola / Vergin Classics
  • 2012: Double Bass goes Beethoven ( Ludwig van Beethoven's cello sonatas for double bass and piano) with the pianists Ulrich Rademacher, Maria Sofianska and Hansjacob Staemmler , Solo-Musica Munich
  • 2017: Double Bass goes Brahms with the pianist Maria Sofianska ( Johannes Brahms Sonata in A major op.100 , Sonata in E minor op.38 and Sonata in E flat major op.120 No. 2), in-house production.

In addition, many of his concerts were professionally recorded. Paradžik has made them available on its official YouTube channel in order to make them accessible to students and a broader audience worldwide.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preminuo Drago Paradžik. In: Ljubušaci. October 11, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Freiburg University of Music: Božo Paradžik ( Memento from November 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Božo Paradžik, Visiting Professor of Double Bass. In: Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved April 18, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Božo Paradžik. Royal Northern College of Music , accessed November 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ bozoparadzikcom: "Simbi" (Paradžik plays Paradžik). March 1, 2016, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ HRT: Naslovnica. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 2015 Special Recognition Awards. ISB , 2015, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Paradžik, Božo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian double bass player
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb