Gudrun Schaumann

Gudrun Schaumann (* in Thuringia ) is a German violinist with an interest in historically informed performance practice .

Life

Gudrun Schaumann is the daughter of a solo oboist at the Komische Oper in East Berlin . She and her family managed to escape to West Berlin. While attending the musical high school in Berlin-Westend , which was named Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium from 1956 and was renamed Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium in 2008 , she performed at an early stage with the double concerto for oboe and violin by Johann Sebastian Bach and to the public with the violin concertos by Mozart and Haydn in Berlin.

Scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation New York enabled her to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York (with Dorothy DeLay ). She owes significant artistic influences to the violinist Nathan Milstein . She received further decisive impulses from courses given by the conductors Sergiu Celibidache and Nikolaus Harnoncourt as well as from Harnoncourt's close collaborators and players of historical keyboard instruments Johann Sonnleitner ( harpsichord / fortepiano ) and Anthony Spiri . You are particularly interested in a. also the historically informed performance practice of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In concerts with historical instruments, she often plays a violin from 1731 attributed to Antonio Stradivari with gut strings and various baroque bows, e.g. B. by Willem Bouman (The Hague), René Groppe (Metz).

As a soloist with orchestra and as a chamber musician, she gave concerts a. a. at Wiener Konzerthaus , Wiener Musikverein , Wigmore Hall (London), Weill Recital Hall (the chamber music hall of Carnegie Hall in New York) and Alice Tully Hall (at Lincoln Center ), at European chamber music festivals as well as in Canada and Japan. She played compositions from the Baroque period as well as by Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Franz Liszt , César Franck , Richard Strauss , Béla Bartók and others. a. for broadcasters and on CD.

Discography (selection)

One of her sound recording projects resulted in a total of four CDs under the title The Circle of Robert Schumann , which were released in 2010 and 2012 by the Vienna label Capriccio , consisting of recordings of sonatas and other compositions for violin and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann , and some transcriptions Songs by Clara Schumann as well as other works from the circle around the Schumanns - such as by Johannes Brahms , Albert Dietrich , Carl Reinecke , Theodor Kirchner , Clara Schumann's brother Woldemar Bargiel and Joseph Joachim - which she performed in Vienna together with the pianists Christoph Hammer and Wolfgang Brunner recorded; the pianists used three historic fortepiano, two of which were built by Johann Baptist Streicher .

• The Circle of Robert Schumann , Vol. 1. Capriccio, Vienna 2010.
• The Circle of Robert Schumann , Vol. 2. Capriccio, Vienna 2012.

Web links

• Homepage of the musician
• Gudrun Schaumann in portrait. Interview at Klassik.com .
• Review of the Schumann CDs on the Schumann Center website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gudrun Schaumann in portrait. Interview at Klassik.com , accessed on September 10, 2014.
2. ↑ CD description on the website of the Capriccio label