- Lera Auerbach
s of her generation. [Jerry Bowles: "The Total Package", Sequenza 21, Wednesday, August 10, 2005 http://www.sequenza21.com/2005/08/lera-auerbach-total-package.html]
She was born in
Chelyabinsk , a city in the Urals borderingSiberia . Auerbach continues the tradition ofvirtuoso pianist -composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the youngest composer on the roster of the international music publishing companyHans Sikorski well-known as a home to Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Kancheli. Auerbach's music is characterized by stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language.Career
Auerbach made her
Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002 performing her own Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra withGidon Kremer and theKremerata Baltica . Ms. Auerbach's music has been presented at Carnegie Hall each season since then. [ Carnegie Hall Schedule Publications 05.01.2002 Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Gidon Kremer, violin; Lera Auerbach, piano and Kremerata Baltica) 10.07.2003 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (Philippe Quint Violin, Adam Neiman, Piano) 2004 20.02.2004 Sonata for Solo Cello (Christophor Miroshnikov, cello) 04.01.2005 Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon - (American Youth Symphony) 2006 Trio for Violin Piano and Orchestra (Clavier Trio) 03.11.2007 Oskolki for Violin and Piano (Borok-Ponochevny Duo)] In 2005, she was awarded the Hindemith Prize by theSchleswig-Holstein Musik Festival inGermany .Auerbach's compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras and ballet companies including
Gidon Kremer , theKremerata Baltica , David Finckel,Wu Han ,Vadim Gluzman , the Tokyo, Kuss, Parker and Petersen String Quartets, the SWR and NDR (Hannover) Symphony Orchestras, NDR Hamburg and theRoyal Danish Ballet . Auerbach’s music has also been commissioned and performed by leading Festivals throughout the world including Caramoor, Lucerne, Lockenhaus,Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein.Auerbach has appeared as solo pianist at such venues as the Bolshoi Saal of the
Moscow Conservatory ,Tokyo 's Opera City, New York'sLincoln Center ,Munich 'sHerkulessaal ,Oslo 'sKonzerthaus ,Chicago 's Symphony Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center.Auerbach holds degrees in piano and composition from
The Juilliard School , where she studied piano withJoseph Kalichstein and composition withMilton Babbitt . She also graduated from the piano soloist program of the Hannover Hochschule für Musik.A new commission by The Royal Danish Ballet, to celebrate
Hans Christian Andersen 's bicentenary, was Lera Auerbach's second collaboration with choreographerJohn Neumeier . Theballet is a modern rendition of the classicfairy tale 'The Little Mermaid ' and was premiered successfully in April 2005.In 2005 Auerbach received the Paul Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In the same year she received the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk and the Bremer Musikfest Prize; she is currently composer in residence at Bremer. In 2007, her "Symphony No. 1 "Chimera" received its world premiere by the Düsseldorf Symphony. Other 2007 premieres included "Symphony No. 2 "Requiem for a Poet" by Hannover's NDR Radio Philharmonic, as well as " A Russian Requiem" by the Bremen Philharmonic with the Latvian National Choir and the Estonian Opera Boys Choir.
Auerbach is also a writer. She has published six volumes of poetry and prose in Russian. In 2007, she was selected as a Young Global Leader by the
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Recordings
*"24 Preludes" (BIS 2003)
*"Tolstoy's Waltz" (BIS 2004)
*"Auerbach plays Mozart" (ARABESQUE 2005)
*"Ballet for a Lonely Violinist" (BIS 2005)
*"Preludes and Dreams" (BIS 2006)
*"Cetera Desunt, String Quartet No. 3" (CAPRICCIO 2006)
*"Flight and Fire" (PROFIL - Hänssler Classics 2007)External links
* [http://www.leraauerbach.com Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/leraauerbach Lera Auerbach's MySpace Music page]
* [http://www.sikorski.de/de/frameloader.html?frame=http%3A//www.sikorski.de/composers/composer212.html Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski]
* [http://www.sikorski.de/catalogue/composers_works.php?lang=de&id=212&pos=0&komponist=Auerbach%2C+Lera Catalogue of works]
* [http://bis.se//index.php?op=people&pID=2825 BIS Records]
* [http://www.impresariat-simmenauer.de Impresariat Simmenauer]
* [http://www.thomascrampton.com/dalian/lera-auerbach-music-meaning/ Lera Auerbach discusses the meaning of music]Notes
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