Henri Bonamy

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Henri Bonamy

Henri Bonamy (born December 14, 1979 in Hanover ) is a French pianist and conductor .

Life

Bonamy comes from a family of musicians. The mother is a violinist from the Romanian city ​​of Brașov (Kronstadt) and his father is a French cultural attaché . After moving to Paris , six-year-old Bonamy began taking piano lessons in Versailles . In March 1991, at the age of twelve in the French capital, he won first prize at the Concours européen de Maisons-Laffitte in the “Young Soloists” category with Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major, KV 414 . A month later, on the occasion of the Mozart year , he played the title role in the musical play "Mozart Enfant" at the Théâtre Grévin on Boulevard Montmartre. In June of the same year he was the youngest participant to receive a grant from the International Mozarteum Foundation (ISM) and went to Salzburg . At the Mozarteum he first met Dmitri Alexandrowitsch Bashkirow , with whom he later studied.

During his internationally oriented music studies he was influenced by the French and Russian piano schools. Bonamy studied from 1996 to 1999 with Jacques Rouvier , Brigitte Engerer , Christian Ivaldi and Théodor Paraskivesco at the traditional Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP). There he completed his studies with the Diplôme de Formation Supérieure (DFS). He then continued his pianistic training for three years in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía as a scholarship holder of the Isaac Albeniz Foundation , where he was taught by Dmitri Bashkirov, Galina Eghiazarova and Claudio Martínez Mehner. After a year he was voted the best piano student and introduced to Queen Sophia of Spain . With a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he went to Germany in 2003 to continue his studies with the Russian pianist Elisso Wirssaladze at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . Three years later he received a master class diploma with honors in piano.

Bonamy received formative influences on his independent pianistic expression in particular from the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu and the American Beethoven interpreter Stephen Kovacevich . In parallel to his piano training, Bonamy studied orchestral conducting at the Munich University of Music with Bruno Weil from 2002 to 2007 . At the end of May 2007 he conducted his final concert with the Munich Symphony Orchestra . He also passed the master class podium with distinction. For his two outstanding degrees, he received the “ Bavarian Culture Prize ”. Bonamy has taught at the Munich University of Music and Theater since 2008 and at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding since 2010 .

He lives in Munich and has two sons (* 2008 and * 2011).

Concerts as a pianist

At the festival in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the summer of 2002 Bonamy appeared in chamber music concerts with the violinist Julia Fischer and the cellist Alban Gerhardt . On the occasion of the “Menuhin Festival” in summer 2003 he gave a performance in the Swiss health resort of Gstaad with the violinist Julia Fischer.

In 2003 he made his orchestral debut with the Hamburger Symphoniker conducted by Andrey Boreyko . This was followed by solo appearances at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival . He has appeared in concert series at the Hong Kong Festival, at the “Young Artists International” in Los Angeles , at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, at the Bucharest Athenaeum , at the Fêtes Romantiques de Nohan in the French province of Berry , at the ProQuartet in Fontainebleau , in the Salle Molière in Lyon and the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris. As a soloist he performed under the direction of Jesús López Cobos , Ilarion Ionescu-Galați and Andrey Boreyko.

His concerts in Paris have been broadcast on France 2 television . He appeared both as a soloist and as a piano partner with the baritone player Thomas Dolié at the Victoires de la Musique Classique . His chamber music partners include one of the world's leading violin soloists Julia Fischer as well as the cellists Daniel Müller-Schott and Wen-Sinn Yang , the violist Zheng Wenxiao , the violinist Rudens Turku and the violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky.

The duo "Lilian Akopova & Henri Bonamy" founded in 2010 existed until 2015 and have given concerts at home and abroad during this time. Both headed the Chamber Music Festival in Munich in 2011 and, for several years, the “Klassik & Jazztage” in Hinterzarten in the Black Forest.

repertoire

Bonamy's repertoire encompasses all stylistic epochs of German, French and Russian piano literature up to modern and contemporary music. He is particularly committed to young composers, as documented by his world premieres of works by Arash Safaian (* 1981), Johannes X. Schachtner (* 1985) and Henrik Ajax (* 1980). In 2006 the French music magazine “Classica” gave the headline “Henri Bonamy: L'élégance européene” and dedicated a CD to him with his concert contributions. On the occasion of Chopin's anniversary in 2010, Bonamy took part in the television recording of the complete Chopin works by France Télévisions in the Salle Pleyel in Paris. In addition, radio broadcasts on France Musique , Bayern 4 Klassik and Kulturradio documented his artistic work.

Conductors

Bonamy was initially Bruno Weil's assistant at the Cappella Coloniensis in Cologne . In 2006 he made his conducting debut in Germany with the Munich Symphony Orchestra at the “Long Night of Music” in the Bavarian capital. A year later he again conducted the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

He stood u. a. at the podium of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Sarajishvili State Orchestra in the Georgian capital Tbilisi with Elisso Wirssaladze as soloist. He directed opera productions such as Mozart's “ Marriage of Figaros ” in Braşov (Romania) and Purcell's “ Dido and Aeneas ” at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in Munich's Prinzregententheater . Since September 2011 Bonamy has been leading the Munich Youth Orchestra of the Bayerische Philharmonie eV and is guest conductor of the “INDEX Ensemble” in Munich. And in November 2018 he took over the direction of the Isartal Philharmonic Orchestra. He prevailed against 50 applicants.

Discography

  • Four recordings with violinist Julia Fischer on her online platform "JF Club", founded in 2017:

There are also two piano recordings by Bonamy on the Leipzig classic label Genuin :

  • Works by Brahms and Schubert (2008)
  • Works by Moussorgsky and Debussy (2009)

Prices

  • 1991: 1st prize at the “Concours européen de Maisons-Laffitte 'Young Soloists'” in Paris
  • 1991: 1st prize at the international FLAME piano competition in Paris
  • 1992: 1st prize at the international Steinway piano competition 'Young Talents' in Paris
  • 1994: 1st prize at the Steinway piano competition, “Concours franco-italien” in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris
  • 1996: 1st prize at the international piano competition "Ervin Nyíregyházi" in Takasaki, Japan
  • 2002: 3rd prize at the international piano competition "Alessandro Casagrande" in Terni, Italy
  • 2006: Member of “Déclic”, the funding program for young prize winners founded by “Cultures France” and “Radio France”
  • 2006: Special prize at the Geneva International Music Competition
  • 2007: "Bavarian Culture Prize" from E.ON Bayern AG

swell

  • “A top pianist introduces himself”, Südwest Presse, June 17, 2002.
  • Francois Camper: “Festival de Musique”, Ouest-France, August 20, 2002.
  • “Pure Brahms at the Festival”, Ostsee-Zeitung, June 23, 2003.
  • "Menuhin Festival - ambitious young stars in Lauenen", Anzeiger von Saanen (Switzerland), August 8, 2003.
  • Philippe van den Bosch: “L'élégance européene”, interview with Bonamy, Classica-Répertoire, June 2006.
  • "Festive finale with Georg Friedrich Händel - Ludwigsburg Festival as a guest in Wolfegg - Sunday matinee with the pianist Bonamy", Südkurier, September 12, 2007.
  • Klaus Kalchschmid: "Un uomo dolce - Henri Bonamy plays Schubert, Brahms, Mussorgsky and Debussy on DC Label Genuin" on KlassikInfo.de.
  • “Strict Beauty”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2/3. June 2007.
  • Hagen Kunze: "Henri Bonamy - Piano Works by Brahms and Schubert", Kreuzer (Leipziger Stadtmagazin), issue 8, August 10, 2008.
  • Sigurd Kaiser: “Sound fireworks in the concert sky”, Badische Zeitung, November 9, 2010.
  • Alois Kramer: "Petrouchka and more - Henri Bonamy gives an outstanding soirée in the Augustinum", Augsburger Allgemeine, October 14, 2012.
  • Opening concert Tutzinger Brahmstage , October 10, 2010 (accessed June 10, 2018)
  • Reinhard Palmer: "Delightful prelude: a concert with Julia Fischer inspires" Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 6, 2017 (accessed on June 10, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henri Bonamy at carnegiesmall.org
  2. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/starnberg/julia-fischer-in-der-schlossberghalle-spielfreude-auf-spitzenniveau-1.4273649
  3. ↑ David Holzapfel: New Epoch - Change of Staff. In: Sueddeutsche Zeitung . November 8, 2018, accessed February 11, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bonamy, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist and conductor living in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover