Noah Bendix-Balgley

Noah Bendix-Balgley (* 1984 in North Carolina ) is an American violinist . He is currently one of the three first concert masters of the Berlin Philharmonic .

Life

Noah Bendix-Balgley began playing the violin at the age of four. At the age of nine he played for Yehudi Menuhin in Switzerland . Bendix-Balgley studied music at the Crowden School in Berkeley , California and later at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the University of Music and Theater Munich under Mauricio Fuks , Christoph Poppen and Ana Chumachenco . Noah Bendix-Balgley played a 1732 Bergonzi which was previously owned by Nigel Kennedy and Margot MacGibbon .

Bendix-Balgley has won awards in a number of competitions, including a third - and special creativity award - at the Long-Thibaud International Competition 2008, and a finalist in the 2009 Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth . In 2011 he won first prize at the Concours International de Musique Vibrarte in Paris, and at the 14th Concorso Internazionale Violinistico "Andrea Postacchini" in Fermo, Italy, the special prize for the best Bach interpretation .

As a soloist, Bendix-Balgley has made music with orchestras all over the world, such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Orchester National de Belgique, I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, the Orchester Royal Chambre de Wallonie ( Belgium ) , and the Erie Philharmonic. From 2011 to 2014 he was the concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 he was appointed concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.

As a chamber musician, Bendix-Balgley was first violinist with the Munich Athlos String Quartet from 2008 to 2011. The quartet won a special prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition 2009 in Berlin. In 2011, he toured North America with the Miro String Quartet. He has u. a. with musicians like Gidon Kremer , Yuri Bashmet , Emanuel Ax and Lars Vogt and played at festivals in Europe and North America. So z. B. the Verbier Festival , the Sarasota Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, the Nevada Chamber Music Festival as well as Chamber Music Connects the World of the Kronberg Academy .

In addition to classical music, Noah Bendix-Balgley has a penchant for klezmer . He has had opportunities to teach klezmer around the world and in his spare time he plays with groups like Brave Old World .

Since 2013 he has been an artist lecturer in the string quartet department of the Carnegie Mellon School of Music.

Web links

• Noah Bendix-Balgley's website
• Noah Bendix-Balgley Entry on the Intermusica Management website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley goes back to Crowden School . In: SFGate .
2. ^ IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Noah Bendix-Balgley named Berlin concertmaster: Jacobs School of Music . In: indiana.edu .
3. ↑ Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley purchases 1732 Bergonzi once owned by Nigel Kennedy . In: The Strad . Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 19, 2015. 
4. ^ Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra named new concertmaster . In: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Blogs .
5. ^ Noah Bendix-Balgley, 1st Concertmaster . In: berliner-philharmoniker.de .
6. ^ The Jewish Chronicle - PSO's new concertmaster feels strong Jewish inspiration . In: thejewishchronicle.net . Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 19, 2015. 
7. ^ Carnegie Mellon University: Press Release: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley Joins Carnegie Mellon School of Music Faculty . In: cmu.edu .