Elizabeth Sombart

Elizabeth Sombart (* 1958 in Strasbourg , France ) is a French pianist , musician and actress .

biography

Sombart began her piano lessons at the age of seven. She entered her hometown conservatory and made her first public appearance at age eleven. After receiving first prize in piano and chamber music at the age of sixteen, she decided to leave France to perfect her art in Buenos Aires with Bruno Leonardo Gelber and, before completing her training, with other masters such as Peter Feuchtwanger . She studied in London and with Hilde Langer-Rühl in Vienna , where she deepened her work with the use of breath in piano playing. In the ten years that followed, she began to study with the conductor Sergiu Celibidache at the University of Mainz , studying music phenomenology , which brought her to a phenomenological pedagogy with the basic principle of reducing the multitude of occurring phenomena to a unity.

Foundation Resonanz / "Fondation Resonnance"

In addition to her work as a soloist, Elizabeth Sombart is the founder and president of the "Fondation Resonnance", founded in 1998 and represented in seven countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Spain and Lebanon. The tasks of the foundation are, on the one hand, to offer “classical music in places where it is not played” (hospitals, nursing homes, facilities for the disabled, penal institutions, companies, etc.) and, secondly, to establish and manage “schools for resonance” Piano schools without exam and without age limit.

Awards

In 2006 she was made a Knight of the French Order of Merit for her work and in 2008 a Knight of the French Order of Art and Literature for her artistic career .

Piano teacher, master classes

Elizabeth Sombart has also devoted herself to establishing master classes for pianists at universities and music colleges in Switzerland and abroad (Paris, Lausanne, Rome, Barcelona, ​​Louvain, Beirut and Kaslik) for 25 years. In 2009 she was appointed a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Russian Conservatory "Serge Rachmaninoff" in Paris. In 2004, Elizabeth Sombart opened the leading Swiss International Center for Resonance Education. This pedagogy around the phenomenology of sound and gestures is organized by masters at the piano, in singing , in conducting and in chamber music.

Concerts

Elizabeth Sombart performs in the world's most renowned concert halls: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Salle Palau in Barcelona. She plays chamber music with Augustin Dumay (violin), Patrick Gallois (flute), Lluís Claret (cello) and Akiko Nakajima (soprano). She plays with the Orchester National de Lille at the Festival in Strasbourg, with the Bruckner Orchestra at the Academy in Munich, and gives concerts with the Symphony Orchestra of the 21st Century in Catalonia .

Movies

Elizabeth Sombart was also active as an actress, e.g. B. in the crime series Derrick (episode 201: The dead person plays almost no role)

Discography

Elizabeth Sombart publications include " The Art of Fugue " with Jean-Christophe Geiser in duo with piano and organ in the IFO Publishing House, the 21 Nocturnes of Chopin . A DVD shows the portrait of Serge Schmidt: “Elizabeth Sombart, Music and Colors of the Soul”, it was broadcast on Mezzo , the parliamentary channel, and broadcast on TSR and on Lebanon TV.

On the other hand, there is a series of 50 programs, broadcast on France 3 and produced by Peter Knapp: “Confessions to the piano from Bach to Bartók”, which presents an anthology of classical music.

Elizabeth Sombart has also published several books, including “Music in the Heart of Miracles” by Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, song lyrics on harmony by Editions A. Michel and the book “They call me Plume” by Edition l'Hebe.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elizabeth Sombart in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about lizabeth Sombart in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• Elizabeth Sombart at Allmusic (English)
• Elizabeth Sombart in the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Notes and sources

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2. ↑ Elizabeth Sombart at Pianobleu (French) ( accessed October 3, 2013)