Nachum Erlich
Nachum Erlich (born June 28, 1959 in Jerusalem , Israel ) is an Israeli violin virtuoso and lecturer in music education.
Life
Erlich began studying the violin with his father Moshe Erlich, a member of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and continued with Yair Kless at the Rubin Conservatory in Jerusalem, today's Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance . From 1975 to 1981 he was a master student at the Bern Conservatory with Max Rostal , where he graduated with a concert diploma. In addition to his studies, he completed master classes with Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng , and later several studies with Steven Staryk.
From 1981 to 1991 Nachum Erlich taught at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. As a lecturer, he supervised master classes in Germany, Finland, Italy, Poland, Korea, Brazil, Austria, Japan, China and the USA. Since 1991 he has held a professorship for violin at the State University of Music in Karlsruhe .
As a soloist he worked with the conductors Moshe Atzmon , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Rudolf Baumgartner , Okku Kamu , Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Walter Weller and Sergiu Comissiona. In the field of chamber music, Erlich played with Alfons Kontarsky , Siegfried Mauser , Kalle Randalu , Rudolf Meister , Julius Berger , Fany Solter , Martin Ostertag , Edward Vanderspar , Wolfgang Meyer and Eduard Brunner . He is particularly interested in the discovery and interpretation of rarely performed works and especially the works of Max Reger . In January 2004 a recording of the sonatas op. 122 and op. 139 with the pianist Siegfried Mauser was published by Hänssler Verlag.
Since his student days, working with chamber orchestras has played a major role in Nachum Erlich's artistic work. He was a member and concertmaster of the Festival Strings Lucerne , the Camerata Bern and the Basel Chamber Orchestra . In 2001 he took over the direction of the chamber orchestra of the Karlsruhe University of Music, with which he recorded a CD including the recording of the Concerto for Two Violins in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach together with the violinist Ivri Gitlis . Nachum Erlich has been Artist in Residence at Heidelberg University since April 2002 . There he is involved in the design of the university's musical program, looks after the strings of the Collegium Musicum and appears as a soloist. He lives in Karlsruhe .
Discography
- The Chamber Orchestra of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe plays with Ivry Gitlis, conductor & violin Nachum Erlich, [CD] Karlsdorf: House of Audio , 2006?
- SWR music: Hänssler Classic - highlights , [CD] SWR Media, Hänssler Classic [u. a.], 2005
- Reger: Sonatas for violin & piano op. 122 & op. 139 , [CD] SWR Media, 2004
- Vieuxtemps: Suites, Vl Kl, op. 43 , [CD] Podium 1997
Videos
- J.-S. Bach: Double Concerto in D minor BWV 1043 for two violins and orchestra - II. Largo, ma non tanto . Ivry Gitlis and Nachum Erlich with the Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra
- E. Bloch: 'Nigun' / Baal Shem Suite . Nachum Erlich, violin - Yang Yang, piano
- M. Reger: La Folia . Nachum Erlich with the Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra
Web links
- Literature by and about Nachum Erlich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Private homepage
- Online, Heidelberg University, press release on the first "Artist in Residence" (as of June 24, 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erlich, Nachum |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |