Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977 in Mississauga , west of Toronto in the province of Ontario ) is a Canadian violinist .
Life
Leila Josefowicz was born into a Polish-English family. Her mother, Wendy, is a geneticist and her father, Jack, is a physicist. Shortly after the birth, the family moved to California , just north of Los Angeles .
Her father loved the violin and so she received her first violin lessons at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method . From the age of 5 she learned from Idel Low, from the age of 8 from Robert Lipsett, an award-winning violin teacher. As a child prodigy , she performed at parties and galas held in Hollywood and Beverly Hills in honor of presidents and stars. At the age of 10, she appeared on a nationally televised NBC show in honor of Bob Hope , which saw guests such as Ronald Reagan , Andrew Lloyd Webber , the Martha Graham Dance Company and pianist Van Cliburn . She played Henryk Wieniawski's Scherzo-tarantelle and received such a huge amount of media coverage that she got her first major management contract with IMG.
When she was 13, she moved to Philadelphia with her family to study at the Curtis Institute of Music . She had violin lessons with Jaime Laredo , Joseph Gingold , Felix Galimir and Jascha Brodsky . In addition, she learned chamber music from Felix Galimir . In addition, she was significantly influenced by Seiji Ozawa and Sir Neville Marriner , whom she considers her mentor . Your musical role models are Nathan Milstein , Jascha Heifetz , Bronisław Huberman and Fritz Kreisler .
Leila Josefowicz now lives in New York's Upper West Side . In 2006 she separated from her husband, the conductor Kristjan Järvi . She has a son with him, Lukas.
Soloist
At the age of 16 , Leila Josefowicz made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1994 with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto accompanied by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. The many major orchestras she has played with include:
- in the USA the Big Five , i. H. the New York Philharmonic , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra
- in Europe the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchester National de France , Orchester National de Belgique , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin
- in Asia the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Asian Youth Orchestra.
She worked with well-known conductors such as Seiji Ozawa , Valeri Gergijew , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Charles Dutoit , Kurt Sanderling , Mikko Franck, Iván Fischer , Markus Stenz and Franz Welser-Möst .
In September 2003 she was a soloist at the famous Last Night of the Proms concert at London's Royal Albert Hall . Her last tour of Germany took her to Wiesbaden, Regensburg, Cologne and Düsseldorf with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2006. In 2016 she played the violin concerto Scheherazade.2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin under the baton of John Adams.
New music
Leila Josefowicz maintains close contact with the composers John Adams and Oliver Knussen . She integrates new music into her programs and premieres new works.
Esa-Pekka Salonen , Colin Matthews, Steven Mackey and John Adams composed several violin concertos just for Josefowicz. She played the world premiere of the dramatic symphony Scheherazade.2 for violin and orchestra by John Adams, which was written for her violin playing, in March 2015 with the New York Philharmonic under the musical direction of Alan Gilbert .
Luca Francesconi's concert Duende - The Dark Notes , also composed especially for Josefoqicz, had its world premiere with her in 2014 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki, before it was presented by Josefowicz, Mälkki and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in July 2015 has been.
Her interpretation of the Adams Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in January 2002 as part of the John Adams Festival, which was broadcast across Europe, became famous before.
Open to “jazzy little meals”, she works closely with pianist John Novacek.
She promptly performed with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Ottawa's National Arts Center Orchestra, Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Filarmonica della Scala. In the 2015/16 season she also played with the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Sydney Symphony, the Orquesta Nacional de España, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, also on their tour in Austria.
Most recently she recorded Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the composer's musical direction, after which the recording was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 .
instrument
- 1993–1994: Ruby - Stradivari from 1708, on loan from the Stradivari Society
- 1994: Ebersolt - Guarneri del Gesù from 1739, on loan from Herbert R. Axelrod
Awards
- 1994 Avery Fisher Career Grant . The prize is awarded annually to outstanding solo instrumentalists in the USA and is endowed with $ 10,000.
- 1995 Diapason d'or for the debut album
- 1996 Diapason d'Or for the solo album
- 2005 nomination for the album Road Movies for a Grammy
- 2005 Cover story for Classic FM Magazine
- 2006 cover story for BBC Music Magazine
- 2006 cover story for Strad magazine
- 2007 MacArthur Fellow
Discography
From 1994 to 2005 Leila Josefowicz had an exclusive contract with Philips Classics . From 2005 she is under contract with Warner Classics . Leila Josefowicz has always resisted sexual marketing campaigns with her record labels . She rejects these techniques with which z. B. Vanessa-Mae was marketed, from: “Well, I don't have to present myself as a sex symbol. If people only concentrated on individual body parts with me, art would take a back seat. And I do not want that."
| released | Pieces | Contributors | Publisher / No. | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Shostakovich
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Warner Classics 2564 62997-2 | CD |
| 2005 |
Recital
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Warner Classics 2564 61948-2 | 2 CDs |
| 2004 | John Adams: Road Movies | Philips Classics | CD | |
| 2004 | The Last Night Of The Proms 2003 |
|
Warner Classics | CD |
| 2003 | John Adams
|
|
BBC-Late Junction | CD |
| 2001 | Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos |
|
Philips Classics | CD |
| 2000 | Americana |
|
Philips 462 948-2 | CD |
| 2000 | Mendelssohn & Glazuvov Violin Concertos |
|
Philips Classics | CD |
| 1998 | For the end of time
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|
Philips Classics 002894565712 | CD |
| 1997 | Violin for Anne Rice |
|
Philips 462 032-2 | CD |
| 1997 | Bohemian Rhapsodies |
|
Philips Classics 002894544402 | CD |
| 1996 | solo | Philips Classics | CD | |
| 1995 | Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos |
|
Philips Classics | CD |
Web links
- Sound carrier by Leila Josefowicz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of the artist (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Philip Anson, Leila Josefowicz: Portrait of a Woman with Violin . In: La scena musicale , February 1, 2000
- ↑ Andrew Palmer, Great Expectations . In: Strings Magazine ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , May-June 2000, issue 86
- ↑ BBC Music Magazine ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Strad Magazin ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Dagmar Leischow: Leila Josefowicz: Vagabundin the violin . In: Kulturnews ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Josefowicz, Leila |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Josefowicz, Leila Bronia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th October 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mississauga , Ontario |