Susanna Yoko Henkel
Susanna Yoko Henkel (* 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German violinist .
Life
education
Susanna Yoko Henkel comes from a German-Japanese family of musicians: her Japanese mother plays the viola , her German father the cello , and her brother Tonio also became a cellist. Since she was two years old she learned to play the violin, first from her mother. From an early age she aspired to a solo career. She studied with Rainer Kussmaul at the Freiburg University of Music and with Ana Chumachenco at the Munich University of Music and Theater .
Artistic career
Susanna Yoko Henkel performed at the Bach Weeks in Ansbach , the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the “Open Chamber Music” Festival in Prussia Cove (England), the “Bargemusic” Festival in New York and concerts at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris.
She played with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Symphony Orchestra , the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Beethoven Hall Orchestra in Bonn , the Aachen Symphony Orchestra , the Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra , the Frankfurt (Oder) State Orchestra, and the Südwestfunk radio orchestra , the Mainz State Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Puchon Philharmonic Orchestra Seoul (South Korea), the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (USA) and the Florida West Coast Symphony Orchestra as well as the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. With the Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto she has performed as part of the "Toyota Classics" tour in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. Since 2006 she has directed the Zagrebački međunarodni festival komorne glazbe (ZAGREBkom) , a festival for chamber music in Zagreb . In 2007, the trade magazine Strings , the leading magazine for strings in North America, honored Susanna Yoko Henkel with a cover story.
Since 2010, Henkel has held a professorship for violin at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . Since 2012 she has also been teaching as a visiting professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb.
instrument
Susanna Yoko Henkel plays the Stradivari violin “Leslie, Tate” from 1710, a generous loan from private owners.
Awards
- 1997: Winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels
- Prize winner at the international violin competition in Seoul (South Korea)
- 1999: 3rd prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg
- 1998: 1st prize at the German Music Competition in Berlin
- 2nd prize at the Tibor Varga competition in Sion (Switzerland)
- 1999: 1st prize at the International Violin Competition in Markneukirchen
- 2011: ECHO Klassik for the concert recording of the year (19th century) - Tchaikovsky violin concerto
Discography
- 2000: Violin solo - works by Bach , Bartók , Ysaÿe , Yun . The Spot Records
- 2002: Prokofjew : Sonata No. 2 in D major, Strauss : Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18. With Milana Chernyavska (piano). Primavera (Ars Musici)
- 2006: Pure Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin , 2 CDs. The Spot Records
- 2006: Chamber music by Ravel . With Monika Leskovar (cello) and Milana Chernyavska (piano). The Spot Records
- 2009: Works for violin and cello by Johan Halvorsen , Zoltán Kodály , Hanns Eisler and Erwin Schulhoff . With Tonio Henkel (cello). The Spot Records
- 2010: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto , Vaughan Williams : Fantasy. With the Duisburg Philharmonic under Jonathan Darlington. Acousence Classics
- 2011: Mozart , Violin Concertos No. 3 and 5, Rondo in C major, Adagio in E major. With the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra . The Spot Records
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Adelbert Reif: Susanna Yoko Henkel shines with Bach and Ravel In: Class aktuell , No. 4, 2006, p. 15 (PDF)
- ^ Tonio Henkel , cellist in the Staatskapelle Berlin
- ↑ Biography Website of Susanna Yoko Henkel (English)
- ↑ a b Biography on the website of Susanna Yoko Henkel, status 2010 (archived website)
- ↑ Biography on the website of Susanna Yoko Henkel
- ↑ Susanna Yoko Henkel in the database of the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth
- ↑ International Mozart Competition: Prize Winners 1975–2006 (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henkel, Susanna Yoko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henkel, Susanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |