Luiza Borac
Luiza Borac (* in Piteşti , Argeş County ) is a Romanian pianist .
Life
Luiza Borac began her music education at the age of four. She passed her Abitur at the "George Enescu Music High School" for gifted students in Bucharest . She completed her education at the Bucharest Music Academy with the highest distinction. After the Romanian Revolution , the Chopin Society scholarship enabled her to continue studying at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , where she graduated with honors. Masterclasses at the Juilliard School of Music New York, the Como International Piano Foundation, the Holland Music Sessions and the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg completed her education.
Described by music critics as a “virtuoso of amazing brilliance” and “poetic artist”, Luiza Borac has given concerts in Europe and the USA. She has given solo piano recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall, Steinway Hall (London and New York), Kölner Philharmonie , Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Liederhalle Stuttgart, NDR Hamburg, and performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts , Oslo Music Festival, the Prokofiew Festival in the Barbican Center London, Bohemian Festival, Braunschweiger Classix, the Chopin Festivals in Vienna and Milan, the Pontino Festival.
The Romanian composer George Enescu , whose piano works she recorded in full, forms a special focus in Luiza Borac's musical oeuvre . For her Enescu project, Luiza Borac received the Dorothea-Erxleben grant from the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the BBC Music Award 2007 for the best instrumental CD recording.
Luiza Borac played several benefit concerts for the street children and orphans of Romania. In 2008 she supported the MENORAH remembrance project with a benefit concert, which was dedicated to the memory of the persecuted Jews of Schaumburg-Lippe . In February 2009, Luiza Borac accepted the invitation of the organizing committee of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition to act as a “music ambassador” as part of the “Music-In-Our-Schools” project, where she tried to get around 3000 children interested in classical music.
In 2009 Luiza Borac's album was released with the cycles of the 24 Etudes by Frédéric Chopin and the Polish Songs in the arrangement of Franz Liszt .
In addition, in September 2009 Luiza Borac gave the world premiere of Robert Schumann's newly discovered composition Anung - the first previously unknown composition by Robert Schumann to be found since the early 20th century.
The album with the title Frühlingslaube with piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt and Sergej Rachmaninoff on works by Mozart, Schubert and Kreisler was released in 2010. The CD is connected to a charitable project that supports children's homes in Romania.
In 2012, Borac recorded several world premiere recordings with works by the pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti together with Jaime Martin and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields . The double CD was awarded 5 stars by BBC Music Magazine and 6 stars as the best CD of the double month by Pianonews magazine .
In March 2014 Luiza Borac received her doctorate from the Faculty of Musicology at the University of Bucharest on the piano works of George Enescu with the final grade summa cum laude .
Luiza Borac teaches piano students at the Hanover Music School.
In 2015 Borac was a member of the jury of the Chopin Society for the International Piano Competition.
In 2019 the pianist played the world premiere of George Enescu's 1897 unfinished concerto for piano and orchestra in the Bucharest Broadcasting Hall of the Romanian Radio Society.
Luiza Borac lives in Hanover.
Awards
Luiza Borac is the winner of more than 30 national and international awards, including
- 1st prize at the Mendelssohn Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin ,
- 1st prize at the international music competition Viotti-Valsesia, Italy
- Silver medal at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City , USA
- Debut Prize at Carnegie Hall , New York
- the Prix d'Oslo, the Grieg Prize and the Audience Prize at the Edvard Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo
- 2007: Music Award from the BBC
In 1995 she was a prizewinner of the Holland Music Sessions Concert Artists.
Discography
- Robert Schumann - Scenes from Children, Etudes Symphoniques op.13 (Avie)
- Erbdrostenhof - piano recital with works by Chopin, Liszt and Ravel (R + V)
- Ceszky Krmlov Festival - piano recital with works by Beethoven and Schumann
- Glasgow International Piano Competition - Prizewinner Concert
- Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition - Prizewinner Concert
- WDR Orchestra Cologne - Chopin Variations op.2 'La ci darem la mano' (BMG)
- George Enescu - The Three Piano Suites (Avie)
- Wanderer - Schubert and Liszt (Avie)
- Don Giovanni - Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven (ZEIT Foundation)
- George Enescu - The Two Piano Sonatas (Avie)
- Frédéric Chopin - 24 Etudes and 6 Polish Songs (Avie)
- Spring Faith - Piano Transcriptions by Liszt and Rachmaninoff
- 2012: Piano Music of Dinu Lipatti , recording with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Portsmouth: Avie Records
- 2014: Chants Nostalgiques , with works by Leopold Godowsky, Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Constantin Silvestri, Francisco Tárrega, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Tiberiu Brediceanu and Gheorghe Dima as well as a homage to Ion Buzea, Portsmouth: Avie Records
- 2017: Inspirations & dreams , booklet and 2 CDs with works by George Enescu, Maurice Ravel, Marcel Mihalovici, Pablo de Sarasate, Claude Debussy and Robert Schumann, Neuhausen auf den Fildern: Profil Medien
- 2019: Mozart in Love , profile media
literature
- Johannes Saltzwedel : Romanian Baroque / Dinu Lipatti is a legend as a pianist. Now his fascinating compositions can finally be heard. Review in: Kulturspiegel , cultural supplement to the magazine Der Spiegel , issue 1/2013 of December 31, 2012, p. 39; also as a PDF document
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Luiza Borac (in English) with biographical information and CDs on the Avie Records website
Individual evidence
- ↑ above: Luiza Borac , Booklet for the CD Chants Nostalgiques , 2014: Avie Records, p. 25
- ↑ oV : Luiza Borac (in English) on the avie-records.com page [ undated ], last accessed on May 14, 2018
- ↑ a b Stefan Arndt: From the city competition of the Chopin Society The pianist of the piano capital ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 22, 2015, last accessed on May 14, 2018
- ↑ above : Compus de ENESCU la Paris, la doar 16 ani: Concertul pentru pian și orchestră cântat prima oară la Sala Radio! (in Romanian), article on orchestreradio.ro [undated], last accessed on December 20, 2019
- ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Luiza Borac , in: Booklet Inspirations & dreams , Neuhausen auf den Fildern: Profil Medien, 2017, p. 5f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borac, Luiza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borac, Luiza Roxana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piteşti , Argeş County |