Lyudmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya

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Lyudmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya

Lyudmila Walentinowna Berlinskaja ( Russian Людмила Валентиновна Берлинская ; * 1960 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist and actress.

Life

Berlinskaja is the daughter of a lawyer and the cellist Valentin Berlinski . Her childhood was influenced by the composers Mieczysław Weinberg , Dmitri Shostakovich , Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina , who were among her parents' friends . the interpreters Mstislaw Rostropowitsch , David Oistrach , Daniil Schafran , Jakow Sak , Alexander Goldenweiser , Jakow Flier ; the conductors Yuri Temirkanow , Evgeni Svetlanov , Gennady Roshdestvensky , Dmitri Kitajenko ; the painter Anatoly Swerev , Nikolai Silis, Vadim Sidur, Vladimir Lemporte, Rustam Hamdamov, Dmitri Krasnopewtsew, the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the academic Andrei Sakharov .

Ludmila Berlinskaja began playing the piano at the age of five and joined Anna Kantor's class a year later when she entered the Gnessin School . At the age of 17 she was accepted into Mikhail Voskressensky's class at the Moscow Conservatory .

From the age of 14 she performed with the Borodin Quartet; At the age of 15 she began to play with an orchestra and undertook her first tours through the Soviet Union, performing as a soloist or giving chamber music concerts with Alexander Rudin or Alexander Kniazew. From the age of 17 she played with Yuri Bashmet and Viktor Tretyakov and at the age of 19 she performed in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod .

At the age of 13 Ludmila Berlinskaja got one of the three main roles in the film The Great Cosmic Journey by Valentin Seljanow. The two songs Ты мне веришь или нет; млечный путь, both composed by Alexei Rybnikow , she sang herself. As a result, Berlinskaja received further offers to shoot, which she declined in favor of the music.

At the age of 15, Ludmila Berlinskaja joined the circle of friends and acquaintances of Svyatoslaw Richter . She regarded him as a spiritual father figure. During this time, from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, she was the constant page-turning judge, which earned her a somewhat special fame. Above all, she took part in the festival founded by Richter in the Pushkin Museum : the "December Nights" festival, whose program each year is closely related to a theme and an exhibition organized by the museum in the concert hall. In the 1985 edition she played four hands with Richter and stood in for him at the last moment in the piano part of Benjamin Britten's opera The Rotation of the Screw . Despite first prizes in the chamber music competition in Paris and Florence (Leonardo Prize), she followed Richter's advice and refrained from participating in international competitions.

At Richter’s home she meets the young conductor Wladimir Ziwa . They married and had a son, the cellist Dmitri Berlinski.

In the early 1990s, Ludmila Berlinskaja moved to Paris with her second husband Anton Matalaew , first violin of the Anton Quartet . From Paris Ludmila Berlinskaja began to perform in Europe with Mstislav Rostropovich. After her first concert in the town hall of Paris , the mayor's wife, Bernadette Chirac , offered Berlinskaja the opportunity to start a festival, the "Salon Musical Russe" (Russian music salon). Anton Matalaew and Ludmila Berlinskaja had a daughter, Mascha Matalaew, in 1991. Anton Matalaew died in 2002.

In the 1990s she gave solo and chamber concerts at the Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Moscow Conservatory, the Teatro la Fenice opera house in Venice , in the Royal Academies in Brussels and Madrid.

As a chamber musician, she played with Gautier Capuçon , Henri Demarquette, David Geringas , Alain Meunier, Pawel Gomziakow, Philippe Muller, Dominique de Williencourt, Gérard Poulet, Sarah Nemtanu, Gérard Caussé, Jean-Marc Luisada, François-René Duchâble , Paul Meyer, the Modiglian Quartet, the Orlando Quartet, the Danel Quartet , The Fine Arts Quartet, the Saint Petersburg Quartet, the Ardeo Quartet and the Moraguès Quartet.

In 2001 she founded her second festival, "Printemps Musical à Paris" (Musical Spring in Paris), which took place in various concert halls in Paris. There, among other things, the Paris creation of Prometheus by Alexander Scriabin and, for the first time after George Balanchine in Paris, the Aubade by Poulenc with dancer was produced. In addition to her concert activities, Ludmila Berlinskaja has been teaching at the École Normale de Musique de Paris since 2006 . In June 2009, after Valentin Berlinski's death on December 15, 2008, she founded the Berlinski Foundation.

In 2011 she founded a piano duo accompanied by her third husband and French pianist Arthur Ancelle . Her first CD was released by Saphir Productions in spring 2012 . It is dedicated to the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The second album, dedicated to Sergei Prokofiev's ballets, was released in 2014 on the Melodia label : it is the first recording produced and realized by Melodia in its entirety since the fall of the Soviet Union .

Ludmila Berlinskaja is co-artistic director of the music festival in the Loir-et-Cher department , "La Clé des Portes" (The Key to the Gates), which was founded at the instigation of the "Club d'Entreprises des Portes de Chambord" foundation.

Discography

  • Schumann: December Nights 1985 - Swjatoslaw Richter, Borodin Quartet, Ludmila Berlinskaia - Melodiya ( Мелодия )
  • Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Violoncello, Vocalise, Trio Elegiaque - Walentin Berlinski, Anton Matalaew, Ludmila Berlinskaia
  • Glinka: Piano compositions, Large Sextet - Ludmila Berlinskaia, Borodin Quartet, Grigori Kowalewski - Europe Arts
  • Schnittke: Quartet No. 3, quintet, quartet with piano - Borodin Quartet, Ludmila Berlinskaia - Virgin Classics
  • Mendelssohn, Janáček, Strauss: Sonatas for violin and piano - Gérard Poulet, Ludmila Berlinskaia - Saphir Productions
  • Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Casse-Noisette - Ludmila Berlinskaia, Arthur Ancelle - Saphir Productions
  • Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella - Ludmila Berlinskaia, Arthur Ancelle - Melodiya

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personal data
SURNAME Berlinskaja, Lyudmila Valentinovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Берлинская, Людмила Валентиновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow