Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann (born February 27, 1965 in Duisburg ) is a German violinist who has received several awards and has performed with renowned orchestras around the world in his early career.
Live and act
Frank Peter Zimmermann learned to play the violin from the age of five from his mother, a violin teacher. He gave his first public concert when he was ten. At the age of eleven he won the Jugend musiziert competition . In the same year he came to the Folkwang School in Essen, where he became a student of Valery Gradow . He continued his studies with Saschko Gawriloff and Herman Krebbers until 1985.
In 1981 Zimmerman made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker with Mozart's Violin Concerto KV 216. From 1985 he played at festivals and performed in concerts with major orchestras and conductors all over the world. He is now one of the most famous German violinists of his generation. His recordings include all of the great violin concertos in world literature.
The instruments he played the ex Dragonetti from 1706 and later, the former Fritz Kreisler belonging Stradivarius Lady Inchiquin of 1711, both the Foundation West German Landesbank belonged. Zimmermann returned this Stradivarius to the owners in February 2015 after the legal successor of the former Landesbank, Portigon AG , had to sell its art and instrument collection as part of the liquidation of the bank and its purchase offer was not satisfied. Zimmermann has been playing at the Général Dupont since 2016 . Owned by the Yu Art Foundation, the instrument was also previously played by Arthur Grumiaux . After North Rhine-Westphalia bought back 297 cultural assets from WestLB's successor Portigon AG, Lady Inchiquin will be made available to the violinist again, according to the state minister for culture, Christina Kampmann .
In February 2003 he played the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher's violin concerto en sourdine with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Péter Eötvös .
Regular chamber music partners are the pianists Enrico Pace and Christian Zacharias as well as the cellist Heinrich Schiff . His recording of Brahms' double concerto with Heinrich Schiff received the German Record Prize . With the violist and namesake Tabea Zimmermann he performed the Sinfonia concertante in E flat major KV 364 by Mozart several dozen times .
The Zimmermann Trio has existed since 2007 with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, Antoine Tamestit , viola, and Christian Poltéra , violoncello.
Zimmermann lives in Cologne with his wife and two children . His son Serge Zimmermann , born in 1991, is now also established as a violinist and soloist.
Music industry
Zimmermann published his recordings for a long time with EMI Electrola and after the turn of the millennium also with Sony Music , where they were only sold while the Westdeutsche Landesbank had financed and produced them.
He then switched to small labels such as Hänssler Classic and Sweden-based BIS Records . In 2019, in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he justified this step with the poor quality awareness of the big labels and their business practices, which were primarily characterized by business considerations, which he labeled with the "keyword capitalism " and subjected them to massive criticism.
Honors
- 1980: Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Music
- 1994: Great Culture Prize from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland
- 2002: Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
- 2008: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2010: Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau
- 2013: Annual German Record Critics' Award
- 2014: Echo Klassik in the category Instrumentalist of the Year (Violinist) for Paul Hindemith : Violin Sonatas & Concerto
Zimmermann has already received the Echo Klassik five times. In 2019 he said in an interview in the course of his massive criticism that he had "now carried his" Echo Klassik "to the rubbish dump and personally watched how it was crushed.
Web links
- Works with Frank Peter Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank Peter Zimmermann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) talk on Saturday 23 November 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Hagmann: The violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann - Does it have to be a Stradivarius at all costs? NZZ , May 14, 2016, accessed on May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Michael Stallknecht: You get sucked out for five to ten years. Interview (chargeable). SZ , May 23, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Prize Winner 2014. echoklassik.de, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Frank Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |