Entries by Emanuel

Tanja Becker-Bender

Tanja Becker-Bender was early on awarded top prizes at the international competitions in Geneva, Tokyo, Houston, Gorizia and Genoa. As a soloist, she performes under the baton of Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Lothar Zagrosek, Uriel Segal, Fabio Luisi, Hartmut Haenchen, Hubert Soudant, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and Carlos Miguel Prieto with renowned orchestras such as the Tokyo […]

Midori

We are pleased that also Midori will participate for the first time at the 9th International Mendelssohn Festival! Today Midori is recognized as an extraordinary performer, a devoted and gifted educator, and an innovative community engagement activist. Named Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Southern California in 2012, Midori works with her students […]

Ab Koster

Ab Koster was born in The Hague, Holland as the son of a Dutch hornist. He completed his studies at the Royal Conservatoire in his hometown with the honor of “Prix d’Exellence”. He then continued his studies at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen with Hermann Baumann, who named him one of the “leading hornist of his generation”. […]

Itamar Golan

Itamar Golan was born August in 1970 in Vilnius, and is of Israeli parentage. Golan immigrated to Israel with his parents when he was one. He studied piano with Lara Vodovoz and Emmanuel Krazovsky and gave his first recital at the age of seven. From 1985 to 1989, a scholarship awarded by the America-Israel Cultural […]

Juhani Lagerspetz

Juhani Lagerspetz is a Finnish pianist trained at the Turku Conservatory in his home town, at the Sibelius Academy and the Leningrad Conservatoire. Juhani Lagerspetz made his debut with orchestra when he was just 13, when he played as soloist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto. In 1982 he won […]

Régis Pasquier

In 1958 at age 12, Régis Pasquier was awarded the First Prize for violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Two years later, he went to the United States to give a recital in New York. This was a decisive year because he met Isaac Stern, David Oistrakh, Pierre […]

Arto Noras

Arto Noras is one of Finland’s most celebrated instrumentalists and amongst the most outstanding internationally acknowledged cellists of his generation. After completing his studies at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he studied with Paul Tortelier at the Paris Conservatoire where he gained the coveted Premier Prix Diploma in 1964. Two years later, he was […]

Michael Rieber

Michael Rieber was born in Tübingen in 1967. He is considered to be one of the most renowned figures on the world-wide double bass scene. He studied at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and won the First Prize at the German national competition „Jugend musiziert“ in 1988. Only a short time later, at the age of 22, […]

Bruno Pasquier

After a classic start of career with several First Prizes, Bruno Pasquier got great responsabilities as first viola at the „Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris“ (1965-1985) and then at the „Orchestre National de France“ (1985-1990). He won the confidence of prestigious conductors such as K. Böhm, S. Ozawa, L. Maazel and many others… but his […]

Michel Lethiec

The clarinettist Michel Lethiec is considered to be one of the most eminent figures on the world-wide classical musical scene. Besides his numerous concert and festival performances, he is also devoted to teaching and participates actively in research and the promulgation of the repertoire. He teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris […]