Elena Gurevich

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Elena Gurevich (* in Kaliningrad ) is an Israeli pianist .

Life

Her father was the chief conductor of the orchestra of the Soviet armed forces. Gurevich attended a school for musically gifted children in Kaliningrad and studied piano and harpsichord in Saint Petersburg , Jerusalem and Karlsruhe . Among her teachers were Alexander Tamir (Jerusalem) and Fany Solter (Karlsruhe). As a student at the Rubin Music Academy, she received several awards. She was also a scholarship holder of the American-Israeli cultural foundation Keren Sharet .

In 2012 she was “Artist in Residence” at the Whitsun Festival in Ettersburg Castle near Weimar. In 2015 she was active in the cultural program of the Central Council of Jews in Germany . A year later (2016) she went on a concert tour through China.

As a soloist she has appeared with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra . She also worked with Péter Eötvös .

Since 2008 she has been teaching young opera singers at the Musikhochschule in Munich. She also works as a pianist at the Bavarian Theater Academy in the Prinzregententheater in Munich . Since 2015 she has been a "Steinway Artist".

Elena Gurevich is married to the writer and journalist Michael Klonovsky .

Discography

  • 2013: Recital - piano works by Bach, Schubert a. a., Bayer Records.
  • 2017: Klassik meets Film , new classic live.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elena Gurevich. In: pianistenclub.de. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c cultural program 2015 (PDF file)
  3. ↑ Elena Gurevich. In: eu.steinway.com. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gurevich, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaliningrad