Saschko Gawriloff

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Siegfried Jordan Saschka Gawriloff (born October 20, 1929 in Leipzig ) is a German violinist and university professor.

Life

Saschko Gawriloff received his first violin lessons from his father, who was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . He then studied with Hans Hilf , Walther Davisson , Gustav Havemann and Martin Kovacz , the latter was a student of David Oistrach and Jenő Hubay . Immediately after completing his studies, he took up the position of concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic when he was still 17 in 1947, and in the following year he switched to the Berlin Philharmonic and in 1949 to the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, each in the same position, in which he also worked with the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra and the Hamburg Opera Symphony orchestra played. He won numerous international prizes, including second prize in the Paganini competition in Genoa in 1959 and the city ​​of Nuremberg's cultural promotion award in 1960.

In 1957 he took up a professorship in Nuremberg, in 1966 he switched to the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold and in 1969 to the Folkwang School in Essen. From 1963 he took part as a musician and lecturer in the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt . In 1982 he followed Max Rostal as professor at the Cologne University of Music , which he held until 1996. Gawriloff has been visiting professor at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin since the 2010 winter semester .

As a soloist he has performed with numerous renowned orchestras and with conductors such as Georg Solti , Pierre Boulez , Christoph von Dohnányi , Eliahu Inbal , Michael Gielen , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Markus Stenz , Péter Eötvös , Gary Bertini and Alfred Schnittke .

In 1992 he played the world premiere of the violin concerto by György Ligeti , which was dedicated to him, with the Ensemble Modern, with great acclaim ; the American premiere followed a year later with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of the Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen. In the next ten years he performed the work around seventy times.

Saschko Gawriloff played on a violin by Antonio Stradivari until 1996 , the de Ahna from 1683. Gawriloff's son Matthias is also a musician and plays the clarinet.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlos María Solare: Gawriloff, Siegfried Jordan in MGG Online
  2. ↑ MUSIC: Jehn Se man out, Herr Dokter - DER SPIEGEL 26/1949
  3. ^ GDR violinist won 2nd prize , Archive New Germany , October 14, 1959 issue
  4. ^ Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1683, the 'de Ahna, Amatise in Tarisio Auctions
personal data
SURNAME Gawriloff, Sashko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and violin teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig