Judith Stapf
Judith Stapf (born May 31, 1997 in Rheinbach , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German violinist .
Life
Judith Stapf started taking violin lessons at the age of three. She had her first concert appearance at a children's concert in Frankfurt's Alte Oper at the age of eight. She made her first appearances as a soloist at the age of ten in the St. Maria im Kapitol Basilica in Cologne and in the Philharmonie in Cologne , then also at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival .
After she was taught privately or as part of international master classes until 2008, she attended the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2008 as a participant in the Pre-College Cologne . She studied regularly at this university from 2013 to 2018.
In spring 2014, Westdeutsche Rundfunk nominated her as a German participant in the Eurovision Young Musicians competition . There she performed Shostakovich's burlesque from op. 77 in the finale with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne .
In 2016 she was a guest in the “Young Elite” concert series at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival .
From 2016 to 2018 she belonged to the first generation of students at the newly founded Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin.
Since the 2018/2019 winter semester, she has been studying for a master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Stapf plays an Andrea Guarneri violin .
Judith Stapf and Jerzy Gross
At the age of ten, Judith Stapf came across the theme song of the Spielberg film Schindler's List , a violin piece by the composer John Williams interpreted by Itzhak Perlman . In 2008, out of interest in the background of the play, she made contact with the Holocaust survivor Jerzy Gross . The former violinist was one of the so-called " Schindler Jews " who had worked for the entrepreneur Oskar Schindler and who were saved from murder in the extermination camp . The long-term exchange between Stapf and Gross led in 2011 to the book Spiel mir das Lied vom Leben - Judith and the Boy from Schindler's List by Angela Krumpen. Martin Buchholz documented a joint trip to Poland for WDR to stations of Gross's ordeal. A website has existed since November 19, 2015, which deals with the encounter between Judith Stapf and Jerzy Gross. In January 2018 she played "Nigun" by Ernest Bloch in the memorial service for the victims of National Socialism in the German Bundestag.
Concerts (selection)
- 2009: Violin Concerto in E minor op. 34 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic under Wojciech Raiski
- 2011: Violin Concerto in D major op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven with the Dortmund Philharmonic under Philipp Armbruster
- 2013: Violin Concerto in D minor op.47 by Jean Sibelius with the Bayer Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Duryea
- 2013: Violin Concerto in A major KV 219 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Summit Music Festival in New York
- 2014: Violin Concerto in D major op. 35 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with the Rhein-Erft Chamber Philharmonic under the direction of Christian Letschert-Larsson in the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne
- 2015: Violin Concerto in G minor op. 26 by Max Bruch with the Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonic Society in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, conducted by Thomas Schlerka
- 2016: "Chant d´Hiver" op. 15 by Eugène Ysaÿe with the Duisburg Philharmonic and the conductor David Marlow
- 2017: "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the Cologne Philharmonic with Christian Letschert-Larsson on the podium
- 2018: "Gypsy Wise Men" op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen under the direction of Marc Niemann
- 2018: Concert series "Best of NRW" with concerts in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn and Apollo Theater Siegen
- 2019: Violin Concerto in A minor op.82 by Alexander Glasunow in the Freiburg Concert Hall under the direction of Joonas Pitkänen
- 2019: Violin Concerto in D major op.61 by Ludwig van Beethoven with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under the direction of GMD Dirk Kaftan
Awards
- 1st Federal Prize at Jugend musiziert in 2010 and 2013
- 5th prize at the VII International Rotary Children Music Competition in Moscow 2009
- Premier Prix at the 20th Concours International Flame in Paris , 2009
- 1st prize at the International Max Bruch Competition, 2011
- 1st prize Mary Smart Competition of the Summit Music Festival New York , USA, 2012
- 2nd Prize Ferdinand-Trimborn Competition, 2012
- Beethoven Bonnensis Förderpreis, Bonn, 2012
- Scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben , 2013
- Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, 2015
- Young talent award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the music category, 2015
- Scholarship from Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, 2017 and 2019
Web links
- Biography on the official homepage
- Performance at Eurovision Young Musicians 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Country party: Marc Gruber, Judith Stapf and Fabian Müller. (No longer available online.) In: Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; accessed on May 11, 2016 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ biography | Vita - Judith Stapf. In: www.judithstapf.de. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Angela Krumpen : Play me the song of life. Judith and the Boy from Schindler's List 2014, ISBN 9783451066870
- ↑ Judith and the Man from Schindler's List , Martin Buchholz website, accessed April 8, 2017
- ↑ Play me the song of life. In: Play me the song of life. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
- ↑ ZDFmediathek. In: Memorial hour for the victims of National Socialism (available until January 31, 2019, 14:00). Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ German Bundestag - media library. In: Commemoration of the victims of National Socialism. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stapf, Judith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheinbach , North Rhine-Westphalia |