Dina Ugorskaya

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Dina Ugorskaja (born August 26, 1973 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ; † September 17, 2019 in Munich ) was a Russian-born German pianist .

Life

Dina Ugorskaja grew up in a home that was dominated by music. Her mother, Maja Elik, is a musicologist who took over the spoken singing role in the Soviet premiere of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire . Her father, the renowned pianist Anatol Ugorski , gave her her first piano lessons. Dina Ugorskaya made her first public appearance at the age of seven in the Leningrad Philharmonic . From 1980 to 1990 she took piano and composition lessons at the special music school affiliated with the Leningrad Conservatory . In addition, she received singing lessons with a focus on early music . At the age of 14 she played her first orchestral concert with Beethoven's 4th piano concerto . At 15, she made her debut as a composer when her string quartet was performed in the Leningrad Philharmonic.

During the perestroika era , the then 16-year-old Jewish woman Dina Ugorskaja was severely threatened by members of the anti-Semitic organization Pamjat . This was the reason for the Ugorski family to leave for Berlin in 1990 (which at the same time laid the basis for their father's international career). Dina Ugorskaja initially enrolled at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin one before at the Detmold Academy of Music in the master class of Nerine Barrett studied piano and the concert exam completed. From 2002 to 2007 she worked as a lecturer at the Detmold Academy . In the 2016/17 winter semester she accepted a position as professor of piano at the Ludwig van Beethoven Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Dina Ugorskaja died in September 2019 at the age of 46 from complications from her cancer . She leaves behind her husband and a daughter.

Artistic importance

Dina Ugorskaja's concert activity has taken her to Russia, France, Austria and the Ukraine , among others . She performed in the Gewandhaus Leipzig as well as at the Schwetzingen Festival and the Summer Music Days Hitzacker and played under conductors such as Wladimir Jurowski . Peter Gülke and Frank Beermann . She played regularly with the radio symphony orchestra of the MDR and the Northwest German Philharmonic .

Together with Anatol Ugorski, Dina Ugorskaja has recorded a CD with double concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto in C minor BWV 1060), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Concerto in E flat major KV 365) and Dmitri Shostakovich (Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94). For another CD she recorded Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto with the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra under Vladislav Czarnecki . In the Handel year 2009 she recorded his piano suites No. 2 to 6 HWV 427 to 431.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pianist Dina Ugorskaja died at 46 , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on September 18, 2019
  2. ↑ TIMELESSNESS MADE AUDIBLE , br-klassik.de, accessed on September 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ugorskaya, Dina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2019
Place of death Munich