Elena Denisova

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Elena Denisova, November 2017

Elena Denisova (Russian Елена Денисова, born February 14, 1963 in Moscow ) is an Austrian violinist and festival director of Russian descent.

Life

Elena Denisova's musical career began with violin lessons at the age of four. The daughter of an earthquake scientist and a transport engineer attended the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory from the age of six and then the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At the age of eleven, Denisova took part in her first recording. After studying with the violin virtuosos and David Oistrach students Valeri Klimow and Oleg Kagan, she worked as a soloist at the Moscow State Philharmonic until the violinist moved to Austria in 1990. Here she first worked at the Klagenfurt City Theater and at the Carinthian Summer .

Elena Denisova is the founder of the Moscow National Quartet and co-founder of the chamber ensemble Collegium Musicum Carinthia. Together with the conductor and pianist Alexei Kornienko she also founded the Gustav Mahler Ensemble. The ensemble performs at the annual Woerthersee Classics Festival in Klagenfurt, which Denisova has been artistic director since 2002 . After all, Elena Denisova acts as a board member of the Classic Etcetera association founded in 2001.

In parallel to these engagements, Elena Denisova performs concerts, festivals and international tours as a soloist. Among other things, she played at the Flanders Music Festival , the Viennese festivals Hörgangs und Klangbogen , the Ljubljana Festival , the Festival Russian Winter in Moscow, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Austrian Music Weeks in Bulgaria and the Festival Concerti di Primavere in Parma. In 2017 she performed in the Beijing Concert Hall and several times in the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, where she last played the New Year's Concert for 2018.

Franz Hummel should be mentioned as an example of the numerous contemporary composers whose works she is premiering . In 2012 Elena Denisova recorded his violin symphony Fukushima , followed in 2016 by the premiere of his second violin concerto Poème in memoriam Max Reger . Hummel also created an orchestral version of Alexander Zemlinsky's Serenade for violin and piano (1895) for her. The composer attests to Denisova a great wealth of nuances, effortlessness and expressiveness.

Finally, Denisova is committed to promoting young talent, for example by teaching at the Austro-American Institute in Vienna and as a jury member at international competitions. Together with various companies, the artist is also involved in the development of new types of violin strings and violins.

The development of unconventional interpretation possibilities is very important to them. With this in mind, her interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons attracted particular attention: Denisova played a different violin from Cremona each season . Two Stradivaris , a Francesco Ruggeri and a Guarneri del Gesù were used for the CD recording of the chamber music version . The instruments were made available by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and have a total value of around 7.2 million euros.

Elena Denisova is married to the conductor and pianist Alexei Kornienko and has one son. The family lives in Vienna.

Awards (excerpt)

  • 1976: Concertino Praha, Prague
  • 1985: International Violin Competition, Zagreb
  • 1987: International Violin Competition, Markneukirchen

Discography (excerpt)

  • Natural Flow : Yavor Dimitrov, David L. Kaplan, Paul Walter Fürst and Monte K. Pishny-Floyd (ORF)
  • Awakening of love : Boudewijn Buckinx, Philipp Schober (Assam Media Verlag)
  • Joseph Haydn Violin Sonatas : Elena Denisova, Alexei Kornienko (Gramola)
  • Antonio Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni - The Four Seasons : Elena Denisova, Gustav Mahler Ensemble (Assam Media Verlag)
  • Vienna around 1900 - Fuchs, Singer, Zemlinksky : Elena Denisova, Alexei Kornienko (Gramola)
  • Max Reger Violin Concerto in A major op.101 : Elena Denisova, Chamber Orchestra Collegium Musicum Carinthia, Alexei Kornienko (ORF)
  • Jascha Heifetz - miniatures for violin and piano : Elena Denisova, Alexei Kornienko (Arte Nova)
  • Bernhard Paumgartner : Elena Denisova, Grigori Alumjan, Alexei Kornienko (Gramola)
  • Joseph Rheinberger : Works for Violin and Organ (Arte Nova)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Mikhail Kollontay : Partitas (Etcetera)
  • Nikolaus Fheodoroff , Mikhail Kollontay : Violin Concertos (Tyxart)
  • From Imperial times / From Imperial Vienna : Elena Denisova, Alexei Kornienko and the Gustav Mahler Ensemble play works by Haydn, Hummel and Vivaldi (Sony Classics)

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  1. ↑ Education, activities and awards
  2. ↑ Article about career in the Kleine Zeitung ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Presentation of the Moscow National Quartet
  4. ↑ Article about Woerthersee Classics Festival 2012 ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Recording by Franz Hummel, Fukushima
  6. ^ First performance by Franz Hummel, 2nd violin concerto
  7. ^ Presentation of the orchestral version of Zemlinsky's Serenade for violin and piano
  8. ↑ Participation in the Beethovenfest Bonn 2012
  9. ↑ Participation in Austrian Music Weeks in Bulgaria XIV. (PDF; 580 kB)
  10. ↑ Franz Hummel on Elena Denisova (PDF; 13 kB)
  11. ↑ Newspaper article about the search for the right violin tone (PDF; 49 kB)
  12. ↑ Article about Four Seasons Recording ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sempre-audio.at
  13. ↑ Meeting in Das Orchester  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dasorchester.de  
  14. ↑ Newspaper article "Imperial music making on a new CD"

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personal data
SURNAME Denisova, Elena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Денисова, Елена (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow