Mara Mednik

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Mara Mednik (* before 1950 in Leningrad ) is one in Hamburg living Russian - German classical pianist and university professor in.

Career

Mednik began playing the piano at the age of three and performed in the Leningrad Philharmonic when he was five . From the age of seven she received lessons at the special school for music, which she graduated with honors. She continued her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory with Nadezhda Golubowskaya (1891-1975) and finished her aspirantur with Berta Marants, a student of Heinrich Neuhaus . In 1992 she moved to Germany.

She performs primarily as a chamber musician and has held professorships for piano accompaniment at the music academies in Hamburg, Detmold, Berlin (from 2000 to 2004 she accompanied Boris Pergamenschtschikow's cello class at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin ) and Rostock.

Her musical partners include a. Arkadi Marasch, Gustav Rivinius , Dmitri Makhtin, Emil Rovner, Gavriel Lipkind , Danjulo Ishizaka , Alina Pogostkina , Sebastian Klinger, Julian Steckel , Suyoen Kim , Alexander Buzlov and Vilde Frang . She accompanied masterclasses by Yfrah Neaman, Zakar Bron, Galina Vishnevskaja , Abram Stern, Thomas Brandis and Gary Hofmann and also drove successfully to international competitions in Washington, Genoa, Warsaw, Moscow, Pretoria, Helsinki, Paris and Montreal. Several CD and radio recordings followed at WDR , NDR and SWR .

She took part in international violin and cello competitions as an official pianist, for example the Spohr competition in Freiburg, the Sarasate competition in Pamplona , the Emanuel Feuermann competition in Berlin, the Casals competition in Kronberg and the German music competition in Berlin. She is the official pianist of the competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben . She performed a. a. in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Munich Gasteig .

Private

Mara Mednik was married to the aircraft engineer Wladimir Blumin and is the mother of the pianist Elisaveta Blumina .

Awards ceremonies

Seven first prizes for the best piano accompaniment at violin competitions in Europe marked the beginning of an international concert activity that led her to festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the Beethovenfest Bonn or the Schwetzingen Festival .

Web links

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  1. Mara Mednik at Darß.org 1 Retrieved September 17, 2019
  2. ^ Sarah Niehues: Living room as a concert hall . Welt am Sonntag May 7, 2006. Retrieved September 17, 2019
  3. recordings. Homepage Mara Medinik. Retrieved September 18, 2019
  4. named after Louis Spohr
  5. named after Pablo de Sarasate
  6. named after Emanuel Feuermann
  7. named after Pau Casals
  8. Mara Mednig at Darß.org 2. Retrieved September 17, 2019