Julian Rachlin

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Julian Rachlin, 2011

Julian Rachlin (born December 8, 1974 in Vilnius , Lithuania ) is an Austrian violinist , violist and conductor .

Life

Julian Rachlin was born in 1974 into a family of musicians of Jewish descent from Vilnius who emigrated to Austria in 1978. From 1983 he attended the Vienna Conservatory , where he studied violin in the Russian and Soviet tradition with Boris Kuschnir and also received private lessons from Pinchas Zukerman . He gave his first public concert in 1984. In 1988 he was awarded the “ Eurovision Young Musician of the Year” award, which was followed by an invitation to perform at the Berlin Festival under the conductor Lorin Maazel . Immediately afterwards he performed with the Vienna Philharmonic under the conductor Riccardo Muti - as the youngest soloist to date. During his subsequent career, Rachlin worked with various well-known conductors in Europe and the USA, for example Wladimir Aschkenasi , Bernard Haitink , James Levine , Zubin Mehta and André Previn . In 2005, Rachlin made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel .

In addition to solo violin concertos , Rachlin also devoted himself to chamber music . He made music with artists such as Martha Argerich , Itamar Golan , Natalja Gutman , Nobuko Imai , Gidon Kremer , Mischa Maisky , Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and Kirill Troussov . At the premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Sextet" in 2000 he played with Mstislav Rostropovich and Juri Baschmet, among others . In the same year, Rachlin founded his own music festival in Dubrovnik : "Julian Rachlin and Friends", about which the 2012 documentary Noseland was made. Since 2005 he has also directed the “Rachlin Presents” chamber music festival in Pernegg Abbey, Lower Austria.

Rachlin's recordings of the violin concertos by Brahms , Sibelius , Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich's “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (Op. 147) were almost universally praised by the critics. In 2000, Rachlin received the prestigious International Prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena.

He studied conducting with his mother Sophie Rachlin, with Mariss Jansons and Daniele Gatti . He is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Turku Philharmonic and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Conducting engagements have taken or lead him to Birmingham, Chicago, Munich, Prague, Warsaw and Japan.

Julian Rachlin has been Professor at the Vienna Conservatory since September 1999 .

Julian Rachlin mainly plays the violin "ex Carrodus", built by Guarneri del Gesù in 1741 , which the Austrian National Bank has made available to him on loan. At the 5th symphony concert of the Braunschweig State Orchestra in the 2010/2011 season, Rachlin conducted pieces by Hindemith, Mozart and Beethoven and acted as a violist and violinist. He played a violin built in 1704 by Antonio Stradivari .

In April 2020 he was appointed artistic director of the Herbstgold festival in Eisenstadt from 2021.

Julian Rachlin was in a relationship with the violinist Janine Jansen . In summer 2018 he married the violinist and violist Sarah McElravy in Provence.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist Agency Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm: Julian Rachlin, violin | Conductor , accessed July 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Julian Rachlin, the new Herbstgold director. In: ORF.at . June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Jedlicka: Star violinist Julian Rachlin takes over the “Herbstgold” festival. In: Kurier.at . June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  4. ^ Kurier (Vienna): Julian Rachlin is in heaven full of violins , July 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rachlin, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist and violist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius