Lea Birringer
Lea Birringer (* 1986 in Quiigart ) is a German violinist .
education
Lea Birringer began her musical training with Christa Schmitt-Rink at the age of three and was accepted into the class of Ulrike Dierick and Renato Mangalindan six years later as a young student at the Saar University of Music .
From 2001 she was taught by Igor Ozim , from 2003 in his master class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg . In the summer semester 2008, the violinist did a guest semester at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in the class of Stephan Picard before her undergraduate studies with Igor Ozim and 2012 her master studies with Pavel Vernikov on Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna each graduated with honors.
She also received important artistic impulses from Vadim Gluzman , Liana Isakadze , Yair Kless , Thomas Brandis , Itzhak Rashkovsky and many more. Lea Birringer was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz Foundation and was funded by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben . She also received a Gerd Bucerius grant from the Zeit Foundation .
Concert career
Her international career began with her solo debut with the Berliner Symphoniker , followed by invitations to renowned festivals such as the Salzburg Festival , the MDR Music Summer , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the Weilburg Palace Concerts , the Crescendo Winter Music Festival in Florida and the Davos Festival, the Lugano Musica Festival or the Oleg Kagan Music Festival.
Concert appearances have taken Lea Birringer to important music centers such as the Philharmonie Berlin , the Musikverein Vienna , the Louvre in Paris and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino . She was able to show her versatility working with renowned orchestras such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra , the German Radio Philharmonic , the Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka, the Southwest German Philharmonic Konstanz or the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. In 2008 she also appeared at the presentation of the International Charlemagne Prize in Aachen to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and in 2013 at Bellevue Palace for Federal President Joachim Gauck .
Prizes and awards
Lea Birringer is the winner of the international violin competitions Kloster Schöntal, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Louis Spohr and Abram Yampolski. In 2008 she became the winner of the international Johannes Brahms competition . She is also a long-term scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In recognition of her extraordinary success, she was awarded the culture prize by the Saarbrücken City Association. Lea Birringer's CD recordings have received multiple awards: Her album Lifelines (2018) received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato magazine. The album Di tanti palpiti (2019), which received a lot of attention from critics and radio stations, also earned her a Supersonic Award as well as nominations at the International Classical Music Awards 2020 and the German Record Critics' Prize .
Chamber music
With her sister, the pianist Esther Birringer, she achieved her international breakthrough as Duo Birringer in 2011, when the sisters won the two renowned international chamber music competitions Premio Vittorio Gui and Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera Città di Pinerolo in quick succession. They received outstanding reviews at home and abroad for their debut CD with violin sonatas by Hindemith , Szymanowski and Respighi . Further chamber music partners were Pavel Vernikov , Paul Rivinius, Atar Arad , Barbara Bonney , Eszter Haffner, Wen-Sinn Yang and Igor Levit .
Educational activities
Lea Birringer taught as Pavel Vernikov's assistant at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, Site de Sion and at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar. In addition, she gave master classes in Europe, Latin America and the USA and has been invited several times as a jury member to the Jugend musiziert competition . Since 2012 she has been a lecturer at the Archi Arrigoni Music Academy in Italy.
Further commitment
Lea Birringer is involved in the Rhapsody in School initiative, in which artists visit pupils in schools to talk to them and to play music. In addition, she participates as a soloist together with the Collegia-Musica-Chiemgau eV in benefit concerts.
Recordings
- 2014 - Debut CD with works by Hindemith , Respighi and Szymanowski (Avi-Service for music)
- 2015 - CD with works by Federigo Fiorillo (Brilliant Classics)
- 2018 - CD "Lifelines" with works by Grieg , Liszt and Franck (Rubicon Classics).
- 2019 - CD "Di Tanti Palpiti" with works by Henryk Wieniawski , Pablo de Sarasate , Camille Saint-Saëns , Maurice Ravel , Dmitri Shostakovich , Niccolò Paganini , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Franz Waxman and Antonín Dvořák (Rubicon Classics).
Web links
- Official homepage of the artist
- The artist's YouTube channel
- Literature by and about Lea Birringer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lea Birringer at SoundCloud
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lea Birringer - Biography website of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, accessed on August 8, 2018
- ↑ Lea Birringer's biography, Lea Birringer's website, accessed on August 8, 2018
- ^ "A woman from Saarland in Florence" Saarbrücker Zeitung December 9, 2012
- ↑ Lea Birringer's biography on the website of Collegia-Musica-Chiemgau, accessed on August 8, 2018
- ^ "A double pack on the road to success", Forum June 6, 2014
- ^ "Lea Birringer & Robert Schumann Philharmonic" Concerti
- ^ "Poetic Beauty and Blind Understanding", Opus Kulturmagazin May 5, 2014 ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ International Violin Competition, Schöntal Monastery ( Memento from March 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rodolfo Lipizer Prize
- ↑ International LOUIS SPOHR competition for young violinists
- ^ International Johannes Brahms Competition
- ↑ Kulturpreis Stadtverband Saarbrücken ( Memento from April 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Supersonic Award for Lifelines
- ↑ Di Tanti Palpiti at ResMusica
- ↑ CD of the week in the rbb
- ↑ CD tip radiobremen
- ↑ CD of the week Radio Klassik Stephansdom
- ^ Supersonic Award for Di Tanti Palpiti
- ↑ ICMA nomination Di Tanti Palpiti
- ↑ Di Tanti Palpiti's nomination for the German Circuit Board Critic's Award
- ^ "The hidden tape", Bayerischer Rundfunk ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official homepage of Esther Birringer
- ↑ CD review by Fonoforum
- ↑ CD review by Clic Musique!
- ↑ Press article about Lea Birringer
- ↑ CD tip violin sonatas of the 20th century BR-Klassik
- ↑ "Interpretative moments of happiness" Piccicato
- ↑ Key WDR3
- ↑ Archi Arrigoni Music Academy
- ↑ Alfredo de Daint Malo
- ↑ Lea Birringer at Rapsody in School
- ↑ Lea Birringer at Rapsody in School in Chemnitz
- ↑ Lea Birringer with COLLEGIA-MUSICA-CHIEMGAU eV
- ↑ Debut CD: "Sonatas for Violin & Piano", from Avi - Service for music
- ^ Fiorillo: "Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertanti", published by Brilliant Classics
- ^ "Lifelines: Grieg, Liszt & Franck Violin Sonatas", published by Rubicon Classics
- ^ "Di Tanti Palpiti, published by Rubicon Classics
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birringer, Lea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quiver |