Elisaveta Blumina

Elisaveta Blumina ( Russian Елизавета Блюмина , transl .: Elizaveta Blûmina; * before 1976 in Leningrad ) is a classical pianist . The focus of her work is concentrated on composers who were not performed in the past due to their gender, religion, ethnicity or political position and who have subsequently been forgotten.

Life

Blumina was born as the daughter of the pianist Mara Mednik . For a long time she wanted to become a ballerina and attended the famous Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg. She studied piano, chamber music and song accompaniment at the Rimsky-Korsakow Conservatory . At the age of 16 she made her debut as a soloist with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra with Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 . In 1992 she moved to Hamburg with her mother . She later continued her studies in Hamburg, Bern and London. Her teachers include Radu Lupu , András Schiff , Evgeni Koroliov and Paul Badura-Skoda . At the age of 23 she won the International Johannes Brahms Competition .

Since then she has played at countless festivals and concerts, including in the most prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie and Carnegie Hall in New York. One of the highlights of her career for the time being is the award of the ECHO classical music prize , which she received in 2014 together with her trio Ensemble Blumina .

She founded the Trio Ensemble Blumina together with the oboist Kalev Kuljus ( NDR-Sinfonieorchester ) and the bassoonist Mathias Baier ( Staatskapelle Berlin ) in 2008. Blumina has been the artistic director of the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival and the Giluim Festival in Schönebeck since 2012 . “Chamber music is my life” she confessed in an interview.

Forgotten composers

The fact that Mieczysław Weinberg is regularly performed again today and that his works are now also recorded is thanks to Gidon Kremer , who for his part was infected with the "vineyard fever" by Blumina. Blumina advocates for “unwanted” composers. In her concerts she sometimes presents not only their music, but also their fate. She was very well received at a series of concerts in the Jewish communities in Germany: "The fates touched many of the audience and sometimes linked to their own experiences."

She is particularly concerned with the idiosyncratic music of Galina Ustvolskaya , which was not recognized in the Soviet Union due to its deep Christian religiosity.

Web links

• Official homepage of Elisaveta Blumina
• Elisaveta Blumina at Allmusic (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ Elisaveta Blumina: Bringing Jewish melodies to new life , Jüdische Rundschau. Retrieved July 25, 2017. 
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ Booklet for CD Weinberg. Piano Trio - Violin Sonatina - Double Bass Sonata . See also https://www.staatskapelle-berlin.de/de/kuenstler/elisaveta-blumina.1280/
4. ↑ Portrait
5. ↑ ^{a b} In conversation with Elisaveta Blumina , Final Note Magazine. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 25, 2017.  
6. ↑ Music full of Judaism , Jüdische Allgemeine. Retrieved July 25, 2017.