Valery Gradow

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Valery Valentinovich Gradow , also Valeri Walentinowitsch Gradow, Russian Валерий Валентинович Градов (* in the 20th century in Krasnoyarsk , Siberia ), is a Russian violin virtuoso and music teacher who has lived in Germany since 1972 and has taught worldwide.

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Valery Gradow began studying the violin with Adolf Leschinski, a student of Carl Flesch . At the urging of David Oistrakh , he went to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow , where he master class for violin by Leonid Kogan graduated and earned a doctorate. His first success as a soloist in a major international competition was already during his studies in 1965 at the 1st International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki , where he came 3rd after the Russian Oleg Kagan and the Israeli Joshua Epstein . The following year Gradow were in London the International Music Prize and the London Harriet Cohen Foundation Medal awarded.

After completing his studies he taught from 1967 to 1970 at the State MI Glinka - Conservatory in Gorky and the State Pedagogical Institute in Moscow . In 1972 he emigrated to Germany from the former USSR . First he taught as a professor for violin at the Folkwang University in Essen and from 1987 on at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. From 1998 to 1999 he was "Artist Professor of Violin" at the University of North Texas . He has held masterclasses around the world , including in Germany, France, Italy, Korea, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States, for example at Boston University and at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .

Gradow's well-known students include the violinists Clara-Jumi Kang , Christian Ostertag , Helena Winkelman , Mario di Nonno , Ute Hasenauer and Frank Peter Zimmermann as well as Julia Galić, an ensemble member of the Trio Parnassus .

Gradow has performed as a soloist - often accompanied by his wife Ada, a pianist - with major orchestras worldwide, including the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony . He made recordings for the labels Melodia , Colosseum, Aurophon and Sonora .

Awards

  • 3rd place at the 1st International Sibelius Violin Competition , Helsinki (1965)
  • International Music Prize , London (1966)
  • Harriet Cohen Foundation Medal , London (1966)
  • Gold medal from the Swiss cultural foundation Alte Kirche Boswil

Discography (selection)

  • Sergei Prokofjew : Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano . LP, Melodia 21835, USSR 1968.
  • Romantic violin concerts . LP, Collosseum records, Nuremberg 1984.
  • Alfred Schnittke : Quasi una sonata . CD, Sonora Productions S022579CD, USA 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography on the back of the LP Vladigerov, Pancho : Concert in the Bakola . LP, Laugwitz Product, 1988.
  2. ^ Sibelius Violin Competition. Laureates 1965-2005. In: sibeliusseura.fi. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ Homepage of the State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. In: muho-mannheim.de. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ University of North Texas: Undergraduate Catalog 1999-2000. In: digital.library.unt.edu. July 31, 2017, p. 456 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Guest Artist Concert, Valery Gradow, violin with Academian. Violinists of Mannheim, Germany. (PDF) Boston University , 1998, accessed April 20, 2020 (English, page 5).
  6. ↑ Heiner Gembris : Talent Promotion and Talent Research in Music (Writings of the Institute for Talent Research in Music (IBFM)) , Lit Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-6431-0867-8 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  7. ↑ Music master classes. In: www.meisterkurse.com. DraDoVision, accessed April 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gradow, Valery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gradow, Valery Valentinovich; Gradov, Valeri; Gradow, Valeri; Градов, Валерий Валентинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Krasnoyarsk , Siberia