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Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. Born and raised in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Mutter started playing the violin at age five and continued studies in Germany and Switzerland.
The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Anne-Sophie" is a violin concerto by André Previn. It was composed in 2001 by request of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Anne-Sophie Mutter. Previn conducted the first performance in March 2002 in Boston. The same performers recorded the work in 2003, and received a Grammy Award for it in 2005.
Its vigour can be put down to experience of course, a sense of having less to prove perhaps, but it also responds to Mutter's own dexterity and skill with an instrument the composer frankly adores. It's a hugely expressive, deeply atmospheric four-movement work and, like all his concertos, quite far removed from the thematic narrative music we ...
Another recording is available for download in MP3 at the United States Marine Band website. "Essay for Strings" (1965) "Symphony No. 1" (1966), premiered by Houston Symphony under André Previn in 1968. Williams reworked the piece in 1988 (scheduled to be performed by the San Francisco Symphony during a visit as guest conductor in early 1990s ...
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A former child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine.
Playing For Change is a multimedia music project, featuring musicians and singers from across the globe, co-founded in 2002 by Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke.Playing For Change also created in 2007 a separate non-profit organization called the Playing For Change Foundation, which builds music and art schools for children around the world.
He himself spelled his surname, French-style, Chaliapine in the West, [2] and his name even appeared on early His Master's Voice 78s as Theodore Chaliapine. [3] In English texts, his given name is most usually rendered as Feodor or Fyodor, and his surname is most usually seen as Chaliapin.
Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, virtuoso oboist, [1] and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. [1]