Elin Kolev

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Elin Kolev (born December 17, 1996 in Zwickau ) is a German violinist .

Life

Elin Kolev was born as the second child of the Bulgarian violinist couple Margaritka and Marian Kolev. In 2001 he began his violin training at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau . At the age of ten, Kolev was accepted as a student of Carolin Widmann at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . There he also took master classes with Thomas Brandis , Zakhar Bron , Friedemann Eichhorn , Pamela Frank , Saschko Gawriloff , Rainer Kussmaul , Igor Ozim and Gábor Takács-Nagy . After his success at the IBLA Grand Prix, he went on a tour of the USA in 2009, which the winners of this award are entitled to as an award. Among other things, he played on April 27, 2009 in New York's Carnegie Hall . Back in Germany, he received live appearances on numerous television channels. Since April 2009 Kolev has received a scholarship from the Albert Eckstein Foundation; he plays a violin by Lorenzo Carcassi (Florence) from 1749 belonging to the foundation.

Film appearance

Kolev plays one of the leading roles in the 2011 film Wunderkinder by Marcus O. Rosenmüller .

Prices

  • 2007 First prize at the state competition Saxony Jugend musiziert
  • 2007 winner of the EnviaM talent competition Saxony / East Thuringia
  • 2008 Prize for Best Young Talent and Pablo de Sarasate Prize at the 17th IBLA Grand Prize in Ragusa / Italy
  • 2010 European Hope Prize Winner - on the occasion of the European Culture Prize Awards on May 8, 2010 in the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg i.Br.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name Elin is the Bulgarian version of the man's name Hellen (= Greek).
  2. ↑ Four years older sister Natali plans to become an actress.
  3. ↑ Elin's parents are involved as violinists in the orchestras in the region, the father in the Plauen-Zwickau theater , the mother in the Vogtland Philharmonic .
  4. ↑ Scholarship holders of the Albert Eckstein Foundation: Elin Kolev .
  5. ↑ Child prodigies. Retrieved July 24, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Elin's film is already making waves before the national start. Retrieved July 24, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Interview with the Zwickauer Pulsschlag from February 11, 2009
  8. ↑ Results IBLA Grand Prix 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Kolev, Elin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau