Zakhar Bron

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Zakhar Nukhimovich Bron (German transcription Sachar Nuchimowitsch Bron, Russian Захар Нухимович Брон , [ zɐ'хar nu'ximɔwitʃ brɔn ]; born December 17, 1947 in Uralsk , USSR ) is a Russian- Soviet violinist and important violinist. He has lived in Western Europe since 1989.

Career

As Jews, his parents fled the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1930s . Zakhar Bron was born in western Kazakhstan in 1947 to a Polish pianist and a Romanian music-loving engineering student. His first music teacher in his hometown recognized his talent and recommended him to the best violin school of the time, the Stoljarsky School of Music in Odessa, Ukraine . Bron lived with a host family during this time and the teacher Arthur Sisserman provided him with basic training. He then traveled to Moscow with his father , where Boris Goldstein accepted him in the violin class at the Gnessin Conservatory and at home. In 1966 he became a student of Igor Oistrach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory . After Bron completed his master class in 1971 , he received an aspirant , which was interrupted by the compulsory military service in the Red Army . In 1971 he was a prizewinner (12th place) at the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Brussels; six years later, in 1977, he shared third prize with the American Peter Zazofsky at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan, Poland.

Activity as a teacher

From 1974 to 1988 he taught at the Glinka Conservatory in Novosibirsk . For financial reasons he also worked as a teacher at the district music school. In Siberia he taught a. a. Vadim Repin , Maxim Vengerov and Natalia Prischepenko . Due to the international success of his students, he became known as a violin teacher beyond the borders. An educational future, for example in Leningrad, did not materialize. Through his contacts with the pianist Justus Frantz u. a. he was invited to West Germany. Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union , he received a professorship at the Lübeck University of Music in 1989 . Together with his students he moved to Lübeck , who were able to complete their music education there through sponsorships. Via Lübeck, he received an influx of students from all over the world.

In 1991, at the request of the Russian cellist Mstislaw Rostropowitsch , he took over the Telefónica chair for violin at the newly founded Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. From 1997 until his retirement in the summer semester of 2014, he was a full professor at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . Further obligations led him to a. to the Royal Academy of Music London, the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Zurich University of Music and Drama . In addition to the successful Russian musicians Vadim Repin and Maxim Vengerov, his students include names such as David Garrett , Daniel Hope , Mayuko Kamio , Daishin Kashimoto , Tamaki Kawakubo , Igor Malinovsky , Gwendolyn Masin , Sayaka Shoji , Kirill Troussov and Soyoung Yoon . Hope recalled in 2009: "Being tutored by the phenomenal Zakhar Bron is like winning the lottery."

The Zakhar Bron School of Music was founded in Zurich in 2010 to promote musical talent, of which he is Honorary President. In Interlaken , Canton Bern, he installed the Zakhar Bron Chamber Orchestra (2011) for his young musicians and the violin academy Zakhar Bron Academy (2013).

controversy

Due to his success as a violin teacher, Bron performs numerous jurisprudential activities worldwide. Recently he has been criticized by Norman Lebrecht for having his students emerge successfully from competitions to which he is a member of the jury such as the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, the Monte-Carlo Music Masters and the International Competition “Young Virtuosos” in Sofia . In 2015, his students won five of the six prizes awarded in the “International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition” he initiated. In February 2018, Fabio Luisi resigned from his position as chairman of the Premio Paganini violin competition in protest after the local cultural representative Elisa Serafini announced that she wanted to change the jury and appoint Bron as the competition's ambassador.

Honors

bibliography

  • Samuel Applebaum, Mark Zilberquit: The Way They Play , Book 14. Paganinia Publication Inc. 1986, pp 65-114. ISBN 0-86622-010-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zakhar Bron pronounced in Russian
  2. ↑ Volker Blech: Zakhar Bron - the great virtuoso maker in the violin world . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Laudatory speech by Michail Pawlowitsch Schischkin for Prof. Zakhar Bron
  4. ^ Queen Elisabeth Competition 1937–2013: Violin, Piano, Voice, Composition (PDF).
  5. ↑ 7th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition Poznań, November 13-27, 1977 , wieniawski.com, accessed on August 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Newsletter 3/2014 of the Cologne University of Music ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmt-koeln.de
  7. ↑ Martina Wohlthat: Talent factory . NZZ Digital, December 3, 2007.
  8. ↑ Daniel Hope: When may I clap , 2009, p. 148.
  9. ↑ Cf. Rebecca Schmid: International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition responds to criticism , thestrad.com, February 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b Norman Lebrecht : You vote for my pupil, I'll vote for yours - the truth about music competitions . spectator.co.uk, June 23, 2018.
  11. ↑ Matteo Macor: Scontro sul Premio Paganini Luisi rompe con il Comune . ricerca.repubblica.it, February 1, 2018.
  12. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Bron, Zakhar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Брон, Захар Нухимович (Russian); Bron, Sachar Nuchimowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Uralsk