Zakhar Bron
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Zakhar Bron Заха́р Ну́химович Брон | |
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| Born | 17 December 1947 Oral, Kazakhstan |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Violinist |
| Website | www |
Zakhar Bron (Russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон, romanized: Zakhar Nuhimovich Bron [zɐxˈar nʊˈximəvʲitɕ ˈbron];[1] born 17 December 1947) is a Russian violinist and renowned pedagogue [2] He has been living in Western Europe since 1989.[3]
Background
Bron was born in Oral, Kazakhstan to a Jewish family. His parents fled to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to escape the Nazis. His father was a Polish pianist and his mother was a Romanian engineering student. His first music teacher in his home town recognised his talent and advised him to attend, at the time one of the best violin schools in the USSR, the Stojlarski School for Music in Ukrainian Odessa. Bron lived in this time with a host family, and the pedagogue Arthus Sisserman taught him the basics. He afterwards moved with his father to Moscow where Boris Goldstein put him in his violin class at the Gnessin Conservatoire as well as taught him at home. In 1966 he became a student of Igor Oistrach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. After Bron finished his master studies in 1971, he started doing his post-masters as well, though this was cut short by mandatory military service in the Red Army. In 1971 he was also a laureate (12th prize) at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. In 1977 he shared with the American Peter Zazofsky the 3rd prize at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violincompetition in Poland.[3][4][5][6] Before he was well-known, he taught privately in Novosibirsk. Since then, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London,[7] the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the Lübeck Academy of Music and the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. In 1997, he took up a position at the Cologne Musikhochschule.
Students
Bron's students have included Vadim Repin,[8][9] Gwendolyn Masin, Mari Silje Samuelsen, Daniel Hope,[citation needed] Maxim Vengerov,[10] Vadim Gluzman, Priya Mitchell, Igor Malinovsky, Alexandre Da Costa, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Soyoung Yoon[citation needed], Christoph Seybold,[11] Sayaka Shoji, Nikolay Madoyan, Hadar Rimon, David Garrett,[citation needed] Leia Zhu.[12]
Controversy
Bron has attracted controversy because of accusations that violin competitions have unduly favoured his students with awards.[13] In February 2018, Fabio Luisi resigned as chairman of the 2018 Paganini Competition,[6] in protest at his perceived imposition of judges such as Bron by the Italian cultural official Elisa Serafini.[14][15]
References
- ^ Zakhar Bron pronounced in Russian
- ^ Daniel Hope (2009). Wann darf ich klatschen. Rowohlt. p. 148. ISBN 978-3-498-00665-5.
Being educated by the phenomenal Zakhar Bron is equivalent to winning the lottery
- ^ a b Volker Blech (2 February 2015). "Zakhar Bron – der große Virtuosenmacher in der Geigenwelt". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "Queen Elisabeth Competition 1937–2013: Violine, Piano, Voice, Composition" (PDF). Concours Reine Elisabeth. Concours Musical International Reine Elisabeth de Belgique asbl. 25 June 2013. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF; 359 kB) on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "7th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition Poznań, 13–27 November 1977", wieniawski.com. Accessed 13 February 2022.
- ^ a b Lebrecht, Norman (23 June 2018). "You vote for my pupil, I'll vote for yours – the truth about music competitions". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "Zakhar Bron". Poland: Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznan. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Mari Silje Samuelsen "All Things Strings: Cover Story" Archived 2 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Inaugural Concert Announced" Archived 21 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Maxim Vengerov"
- ^ "Christoph Seybold, Biography"
- ^ "12-Year-Old Violinist Leia Zhu to Join London's Harrison Parrott Management Roster". theviolinchannel.com. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
- ^ Rebecca Schmid (1 February 2015). "International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition responds to criticism". The Strad. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Matteo Macor (1 February 2018). "Scontro sul Premio Paganini Luisi rompe con il Comune". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ Giulia Mietta (1 February 2018). "Terremoto sul premio Paganini, Fabio Luisi contro Elisa Serafini. Il maestro lascia la direzione". Genova24 (in Italian). Retrieved 6 May 2018.
External links
- Official website (in German)
- "Zakhar Bron School of Music"
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