Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach (originally Russian Валерия Львовна Ауэрбах / Valerija Lwowna Auerbach ; born October 21, 1973 in Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian composer , pianist and author living in the USA .
Life
Lera Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk , a city in the Urals on the border with Siberia . As a child, she performed publicly as a pianist. When she was 12 she composed her first opera . After a concert tour to the USA in 1991 , she did not return to her Soviet homeland and has lived in New York ever since . She studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School and literature at Columbia University . In 2002 she passed her concert exam at the Hanover University of Music . Auerbach has been a “Steinway Artist” since 2005.
Auerbach made her debut at Carnegie Hall in May 2002 , where she performed her suite for violin, piano and orchestra with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica . Since then, Auerbach's music has been performed at Carnegie Hall every season.
Auerbach continues the tradition of the virtuoso composers and pianists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her music is characterized by its stylistic freedom and the combination of tonal and atonal sounds. Her works have been performed by Gidon Kremer, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, David Finckel and Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Kremerata Baltica, the Kanazawa Orchestra and many others. As a solo pianist, she has performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Opera City Hall in Tokyo, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Hercules Hall in Munich, the Oslo Concert Hall, the Symphony Hall in Chicago and the Kennedy Center in Washington .
At a performance by the Royal Danish Ballet on the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen's 200th birthday , Lera Auerbach worked for the second time with the choreographer John Neumeier . The ballet is a modern take on the classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid and premiered in April 2005.
In November 2011, the premiere of her opera Gogol , staged by Christine Mielitz, took place in the Theater an der Wien .
In 2005 Lera Auerbach received the Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival . In the following year she was awarded the Deutschlandfunk promotion prize for the Bremen Music Festival Prize . In the 2011/2012 season she was Capell Compositeur for the Staatskapelle Dresden . In 2015 Auerbach received a residency grant from the artist residence Chretzeturm , Stein am Rhein .
Lera Auerbach also writes poems and prose works in Russian. In 1996 she was named “Writer of the Year” by the International Pushkin Society.
Works (selection)
- Tatjana Ballet by John Neumeier based on "Eugen Onegin" by Alexander Puschkin (2014)
- Requiem Dresden - Ode to Peace (2012)
- Gogol Opera (2011)
- The Little Mermaid Ballet (2004/2007)
- Requiem for a Poet. Symphony No. 2 for mezzo-soprano, cello, choir and orchestra (2006)
- Russian Requiem for boy soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass, boys' choir, mixed choir and large orchestra (2007)
- Suite concertante for violin, piano and string orchestra (2001)
- Primera luz string quartet No. 2 (2005)
- Twenty-four Preludes for Violin and Piano (1999)
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (2002)
- Twenty-four Preludes for Piano Op. 41 (1999)
- The Little Mermaid op.80 (ballet) (2005)
Web links
- Works by and about Lera Auerbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lera Auerbach's website (English / German / Russian)
- Lexical article on Lera Auerbach at MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet.
- Biography and catalog raisonné at sikorski.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lera Auerbach - Steinway Artist
- ↑ musik-in-dresden.de: Capell-Compositeur 2011/2012
- ↑ About the Ballet Tatjana (accessed April 10, 2018).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerbach, Lera |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Авербах, Лера (Russian); Auerbach, Valerija Lvovna; Авербах, Валерия Львовна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer, pianist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union |