Luz Leskowitz

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Luz Leskowitz (born August 7, 1943 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian violinist , lecturer , juror and founder and director of numerous music festivals .

Career

Luz Leskowitz was born into a family of musicians in Salzburg and received his first violin lessons at the age of six from Professor Turner, and later from Professor Müller at the Mozarteum . At age 13, he continued his studies with Váša Příhoda and later with Ricardo Odnoposoff at the Academy of Music in Vienna with Ernst Wallfisch in Salzburg and Lucerne as well as Yehudi Menuhin in London continued.

Another important station was his teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London.

After successful debuts in London , New York , Vienna , Berlin and Milan , concert tours have taken him all over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the USA, South America, the Far East, Russia and Japan. A tour through the USA as a soloist with the Camerata Salzburg under Antonio Janigro was particularly successful.

In 1979 Leskowitz formed his own ensemble, the Salzburg Soloists , with whom he performs worldwide.

He has been a guest in the largest concert halls such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Musikverein and Konzerthaus (Vienna), La Sala Verdi (Milan), Rudolfinum (Prague), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Conservatory (Moscow) , Salle Gaveau (Paris), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), or the Kennedy Center (Washington).

Duo and chamber music partners of Leskowitz were and are u. a. Paul Badura-Skoda , Wilhelm Kempff , Ingrid Haebler , Jörg Demus , Stefan Askenase , Detlef Kraus , Jeremy Menuhin, Igor Oistrach , Norbert Brainin , Alberto Lysy , David Geringas , Heinrich Schiff , Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch , Hermann Baumann , Karl Leister , Hansjörg Schellenberger , Michala Petri , Sharon Bezaly, Wolfgang Schulz , Håkan Hardenberger , Elly Ameling , as well as the Bartók Quartet , Kocian Quartet, Lark Quartet, Voces Quartet .

Leskowitz was invited to the first Brahms competition in Hamburg as a juror . He is a permanent juror guest in Paris at the Intern. FLAME competition. In 2008 he founded the Yushnouralsk -Salzburg competition in Siberia . In 2010 he was invited to the jury for the David Oistrach competition in Moscow .

He has master classes in Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and at the Moscow Conservatory . From 2017, Luz Leskowitz has been teaching at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Leskowitz plays an "Ex-Prihoda" Stradivarius from 1707. (The violin's official ID number is 3652.)

Festivals

In 1970 Leskowitz founded his first music festival, the Harzburger Musiktage . This was followed by other international festivals in Germany, the Dannenberger Music Festival, the Black Forest Music Festival, Andernacher Musiktage at Namedy Castle , Rothenfeld Music Festival, as well as in Austria, the Chamber Music Festival and Cluj- Napoca in Romania .

Leskowitz founded and managed the music festival week at Berleburg Castle since 1973 . He had already performed in 1960 at the age of seventeen at the Reifensteiner women's school in neighboring Birkelbach .

Since 1986 he has also been in charge of the Rellinger Church May Festival .

From 1991 to 2016 Leskowitz was in charge of the Salzburg Palace Concerts , the largest chamber music series in the world with more than 230 concerts a year.

Movie

In 2001 he took part in the Franco-Austrian film Die Klavierspielerin .

Awards

Discography (selection)

Luz Leskowitz appears on a number of albums under multiple music labels in which he plays, solo or as part of an ensemble, including:

Cetra Records, Syrinx, Mirabell, Arte Nova Classics, Sony Music , EMI -Classics, BIS Records , Brilliant Classics, Punkt Classics, One Media, X5 Music Group, BFM Digital, Ok records.

  • Johannes Brahms : Streich Sextets of Numbers 1, 2 (Arte Nova Classics, 1996)
  • Chamber music in Europe (Arte Nova Classics, 1997)
  • Brahms : Piano and Chamber Music (Arte Nova Classics, 1997)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Flute Quartets (BIS Records, 2002)
  • The Best of Mozart (Punkt Classics, 2005)
  • 1 Classical Concertos for Flute (X5 Music Group, 2005)
  • Mozart : Gran Partita (Brilliant Classics, 2006)
  • Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto - Flute Concertos Nos 1, 2 (Savoy Label Group, 2008)
  • Mozart: Quartets for flute and string trio - Divertimento No. 15 (Punkt Classics, BFM Digital, 2008)
  • Stamitz: Quartet for oboe - sonata for viola and piano - symphony for 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings (Punkt Classics, BFM Digital, 2008)
  • Mozart: Cassation No. 2 - Divertimentos K. 156 & 251 (Punkt Classics, BFM Digital, 2008)
  • Mozart: The Flute Concertos & Andante in C major (X5 Music Group, 2009)
  • Mozart: Quintet for clarinet and strings K. 581 "Stadler-Quintet" (One Media, 2010)
  • Mozart: Divertimento No. 15 for 2 horns and strings in B flat major KV 287 "London Serenade No. 2" (One Media, 2010)
  • Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 (One Media, 2010)
  • Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 4 in A major KV 298 (One Media, 2010)
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 36 - Flute Quartet - Salzburg Symphony No. 1 (Ok data sets, 2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Algomedia Press Service - Luz Leskowitz
  2. ↑ La Sala Verdi
  3. ^ Concours FLAME
  4. ↑ and Bratzk-Salzburg. Yushnouralsk-Salzburg
  5. ↑ Black Forest Music Festival
  6. ↑ Andernacher Musiktage
  7. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung A piece of culture has been lost to the place (edition of March 6, 2006).
  8. ↑ WAZ Music Festival Week at Berleburg Castle - From insider tip to fine festival (edition from June 22, 2013).
  9. ↑ Siegener newspaper Luz Leskowitz extremely disappointed (edition of July 9, 2014).
  10. ^ Siegener newspaper Luz Leskowitz is adopted (edition of July 4, 2014).
  11. ↑ Music at the Rellinger Church
  12. ^ Salzburg Palace Concerts
  13. ↑ Internet Movie Database (IMDb) The piano player
  14. ↑ BMUKK: High state awards to deserving personalities (APA report from November 25, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Leskowitz, Luz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist, lecturer, juror and founder and director of numerous music festivals
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg