Ursula Bagdasarjanz

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz with a Stradivari violin from the Rolf Habisreutinger collection
Conservatoire National de Musique Paris, first prize for violin, July 10, 1956

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (* 1934 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss violinist .

Career

The daughter of Samuel Bagdasarjanz, of Armenian and Swiss origin, who emigrated from Romania, and of the violinist Margrit Bagdasarjanz-Weiss of Austrian and Swiss origin, received her first violin lessons from her mother at the age of five. In 1944, at the age of ten, she gave her first concert (Beethoven's Romance in F major). Her teachers were Aida Stucki in Winterthur (1944–1953), Marcel Reynal at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris from 1953–1956, where she received the diploma “Premier prix de violon” in 1956 . She then studied with Sándor Végh in 1957 and 1958 . She attended master classes with Joseph Calvet and Max Rostal . When Ursula Bagdasarjanz took lessons from her violin teacher Aida Stucki, she in turn was a student of the violin teacher Carl Flesch , so that she became familiar with the Carl Flesch scale system as a child.

Ursula Bagdasarjanz's career as a soloist and in chamber music was characterized by intensive concert activity. She sat down u. a. for the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck by performing his violin works (including a complete recording of the violin sonatas with Gisela Schoeck, the composer's daughter, at the piano).

Concert performances 1956–1982

Before Ursula Bagdasarjanz started her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, she won first prize at the “Concours Bellan”. During her studies, her first radio recording took place at Radio Paris-Inter, where she later made several other recordings. After completing her studies in Paris, she returned to Switzerland. She has made guest appearances in Spain, Germany and Finland, where she was a soloist with the Turku City Orchestra. In Switzerland she has appeared repeatedly as a soloist, for example with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Winterthur City Orchestra (in Winterthur, Glarus and Uster), with the St. Gallen City Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and the Aarau, Solothurn and Olten city orchestras . She gave violin recitals and recitals abroad and in Switzerland. Radio recordings were made in Zurich, Lugano, Paris and Berlin. Ursula Bagdasarjanz appeared in a TV documentary by ZDF and was a member of the jury for the Tonhalle competition in Zurich. She was invited to Romania in July 2001, 2002 and 2004 to give master classes for violin in Târgu Mureș . She was also a member of the jury in the Constantin Silvestri music competition. Ursula Bagdasarjanz gave an interview for Radio Bucureşti.

Publications

  • Book / Issue 1: "STORIES FROM THE VIOLIN / DIE GEIGE TÄHLT", Edition Kunzelmann (GM 1777a)
  • Book / Issue 2: "THE OTHER WAY / DER ANDERE WEG", Edition Kunzelmann (GM 1777b)
  • Book / Issue 3: "Sept poésies pour Violon et Piano", Edition Kunzelmann (GM 1833)

CDs

Ursula Bagdasarjanz Vol. 1

  • JS BACH: Sonata in A minor for solo violin.
  • Pietro NARDINI: Sonata in D major for violin and piano.
  • WA MOZART: Sonata in B flat major KV 378 for violin and piano.
  • Béla BARTOK: First Rhapsody for violin and piano.

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin), Luciano Sgrizzi & Fernande Kaeser (piano). Remastering 2008. Disques VDE-GALLO (GALLO CD 1248)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz Vol. 2

  • Othmar SCHOECK: Sonata for Variations o.Op.22, Sonata in D major Op.16 for violin and piano, Sonata in E Op.46 for violin and piano.

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin), Gisela Schoeck (piano). Remastering 2008. Disques VDE-GALLO (GALLO CD 1249)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz Vol. 3

  • Othmar SCHOECK: Violin Concerto in B flat major Op. 21. (quasi una fantasia)
  • Alexander GLASUNOW: Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 82.

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin), Radiorchestra Lugano. Conductors: Francesco d'Avalos and Leopoldo Casella. Remastering 2008. Disques VDE-GALLO (GALLO CD 1250)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz Vol. 4, Sept poésies pour Violon et Piano

  • Ursula BAGDASARJANZ: Berceuse, Dracula, Gipsy-Romance, Caprice, Joie de vivre, Rêverie, Introduction et petite Valse des Alpes.
  • WA MOZART: 1756–1791, Sonata in B flat major KV 378 for violin and piano. 1. Allegro moderato.
  • Georg Friedrich HANDEL: 1685–1759, Sonata in F major for violin and piano.
  • Pietro NARDINI: Sonata in D major for violin and piano. 1. Adagio.
  • Niccoló PAGANINI: 1782–1840, Sonata n ° 12 Op.3 for violin and piano.

Melanie Di Cristino (violin), Raluca Stirbat (piano), Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin). Extraits of the CDs. Remastering 2008. Disques VDE-GALLO (GALLO CD 1251)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz Vol. 5

Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin), Luciano Sgrizzi & Bruno F. Saladin (piano).
Remastering 2011. Disques VDE-GALLO (GALLO CD 1352)

literature

  • Ion Sârbu: Vioara și maeștrii ei de la origini până azi. Editura Info-Team, Bucuresti 1995, ISBN 973-97239-3-4 , pp. 226, 227, 300.
  • Ion Sârbu: Memorii Pentru Viitor. Editura INFO-Team, București 2007, ISBN 978-973-98133-7-2 , pp. 350, 351.
  • Willi Schuh : Swiss Musicians Lexicon 1964. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1964, p. 35.
  • Chris Walton , Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works. University of Rochester Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-58046-300-3 , pp. 336, 339, 340, 342.

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personal data
SURNAME Bagdasarjanz, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur