Stephan Barratt-Due

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Stephan Barratt-Due

Stephan Barratt-Due (* Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due jr .; * June 1, 1956 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian violinist and music teacher.

Life

The son of Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due ( Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due sr. ) Studied violin at the Norwegian Academy of Music and continued his training with Alberto Lysy at the Academie Internationale de Musique de Chambre , at the Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland and with Camilla Wicks at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music . He plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1751.

After his debut as a violin soloist in 1981, Barrett-Due soon held an important position in Norwegian musical life. From 1990 to 1996 he was artistic director of the Kristiansand Symfonieorkester and the Kristiansand Kammerorkester . In 1996 he took over the artistic direction of the Oslo Camerata , with which he appeared throughout Europe, South America and Asia and made recordings for Naxos, among others .

Since 1985 he has headed the Barratt Due Music Institute founded by his grandparents Henrik Adam Due and Mary Barratt Due . His students include musicians such as Vilde Frang , Henning Kraggerud , Øyvind Bjorå , Ragnhild and Eldbjørg Hemsing , Guro Kleven Hagen , Sonoko Miriam Welde , Ludvig Gudim , Mari Silje Samuelsen and Catharina Chen .

For their collaboration as musicians and music educators, he and Soon-Mi Chung , with whom he was married until 2015, received several prizes, including the Lindeman Prize (2007), the City of Oslo Culture Prize (1998), the Anders Jahres Kulturpris i (2010) and the honorary award from Norsk Kulturråd (2012). Barrett-Due is also a 1st Class Knight of the Order of Saint Olav and the Order of the Lion of Finland .

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personal data
SURNAME Barratt-Due, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barratt-Due, Stephan Henrik junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo