Camilla Kolchinsky | |
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Камилла Александровна Кольчинская | |
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| Born | January 1, 1939 |
| Died | February 16, 2016 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Website | camillakolchinsky |
Camilla Alexandrovna Kolchinsky (Russian: Камилла Александровна Кольчинская; born January 1 1939, Moscow, RSFSR; died 16 February 2016, Baltimore, USA ) was a Soviet and American conductor.
Biography
editHe was born in Moscow on January 1, 1939, into a family with Jewish roots. And Camilla's father, Alexander Kolchinsky, and mother, Raisa, loved music. The girl studied violin at the Elizabeth Gnessina , was admitted to the Central Music School of Moscow State Conservatory . Later, in 1958, and he graduated from Kolchinsky itself conservatory viola specialties, violin and music theory and history. While studying conducting, she was fascinated by what influenced 1949 film " Prelude Glory [fr] » about the child prodigy Roberto Benzi , shot by Georges Lacombe .
After graduation, she got a job violinist in the Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography , at the same time trying to enter the conductor's faculty of the Conservatory. It was dominated by the belief that women should not be conductors, so Kolchinsky failed to return to the Moscow Conservatory, then or after a while, when she had already received some experience and fame as conductor of the Student Symphony Orchestra of Dnepropetrovsk music school . To act on the conductor's compartment succeeded in Leningrad State Conservatory , in a class by Ilya Musin , who also, among others, attended Yuri Temirkanov , Valery Gergiev and Vasily Sinai .
The first performances. Work in orchestras
editSince 1960 Camilla Kolchinsky began performing as a conductor in concerts with the Student Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Studio. With this orchestra she also conducted operas. "Faust" by Gounod, "Mermaid" Dargomyzhsky, "Carmen" by Bizet and others with great success are the first tour Camilla Kolchinsky in 1963 in Novgorod and Petrozavodsk as the conductor of the Conservatory opera. In the same year in Moscow Camilla attends master classes for young conductors with world-renowned conductor Igor Markevich, and later in Leningrad Camilla attends a master class for conductors with the famous Herbert von Karajan.
In 1964, Camille finishes conductor's faculty of Leningrad State Conservatory, and in the autumn of the same year participated in the contest for the position of assistant to the famous conductor Evgeny Svetlanov the orchestra of Opera and Ballet Theater of the USSR. Among the contenders men - 31 people. The only woman Camilla Kolchinsky was the best, and take it to the post. One year conductor's practice ends with several concerts at the Palace of Congresses and the Bolshoi Theater - opera by Georges Massenet's "Werther" and the ballet "Tsvetik-Semitsvetik", written by the young composer E. Krylatov for Ballet School Theatre.
In 1965, Camille wins the contest for the vacant position of conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Yaroslavl State Philharmonic. During his time in Yaroslavl Camilla Kolchinsky has grown professionally and creatively. Expand and enrich its repertoire. It now covers more than seventy symphonic works and about one hundred comps. With the Yaroslavl Symphony Orchestra she repeatedly went on tour to other cities of the Soviet Union.
Kolchinsky Camilla visited with concerts in Dnepropetrovsk, Khabarovsk, Murmansk, Tomsk, Arkhangelsk, Kirov and others. She has conducted the best orchestras in the country in Moscow and Leningrad. In Moscow, for the period from 1967 to 1973 Camilla Kolchinsky fifteen he conducted symphony concerts, eleven of them with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, where the invited few young conductors, as well as with the Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic and the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic.
The soloists in concerts K. Kolchinsky are the largest Soviet and foreign artists such as Emil Gilels, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, Bella Davidovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Leonid Kogan, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Spivakov, Tatyana Nikolayeva, Mikhail (Misha) Maisky, Natalia Gutman Lazar Berman, Nikolai Petrov, Vladimir Feltsman, Mikhail Pletnev, Joseph Palenichek and others.
The first award
editConductor gives a lot of energy to training young Soviet artists to international competitions, including a very prestigious competition Tchaikovsky. It also promotes the symphonic music and works by Soviet composers, which often serves not only as a conductor, but also as a lecturer popularizer. Camilla Kolchinsky successfully participates in the 2nd All-Union Conductors Competition where she was awarded "Honorary Diploma".
Statements Camilla Kolchinsky repeatedly noted in the press. In the early seventies the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio made a film about her, "Woman rare profession" (director I. Gerstein) commissioned by the Committee of Soviet Women, which was shown on the screens of the Soviet Union's Central Television and abroad.
In late 1972, after returning to Moscow Camilla Kolchinsky began working conductor of symphony orchestras in the House of Scientists and the House of Teachers. Under her leadership, has markedly improved the work of these bands. With great success the concerts of musical groups. In addition, K. Kolchinsky been acting subscription symphony concerts and the Moscow State Regional Philharmonic in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, in the Concert Hall of the Tchaikovsky, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. She went on tour in other cities (Gorky, Ulyanovsk, Kazan, and others.).
In 1975, Camille awarded Diploma and Medal of Smetana for the excellent performance of contemporary Czech music (Prague, Czechoslovakia).
Creativity Camilla Kolchinsky in America
editAfter moving to America in 1989, Camilla continues the musical director of professional and university orchestras. She also teaches at the conservatories of music in schools, in universities. Camilla Kolchinsky working with strings, brass, percussion groups, achieving the best results from the musicians. It also works with choirs, soloists and ballet dancers. Camilla as a professional violinist gives violin lessons, viola, conducts and plays in chamber ensembles.
In the 1989-1991 year. Camilla Kolchinsky is the founder and conductor of the chamber orchestra, as well as teacher-trainer for the violin and music theory at the Academy of Strings in Mave (NJ, USA). During these years, she is the second conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in Tenafly (NJ, USA), music director and principal conductor of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in West Orange (NJ, USA). Camilla - guest conductor at the summer festival of stringed ensembles in Stimbod Spring (Colorado, USA).
In early 1991, Camilla Kolchinsky was the guest conductor of the Austrian Women's Chamber Orchestra in Vienna. In memory of Leonard Bernstein was full of his magnificent "Serenade" with soloist - a remarkable violinist Nina Beilin, a student of David Oistrakh, in the Schubert Hall of Vienna. In 1991-1993 Camilla Kolchinsky won the competition for the position of director and conductor of the symphony orchestra and opera music deparatamente University of Santa Barbara (California (US). The university administration has concluded her contract for two years. During this time it has increased the composition Symphony orkestra from twenty-four to eighty-five people, he has expanded the repertoire, bringing to ten the orchestra performances a year.
She began as soloists invite the best students and faculty, as well as well-known musicians in the United States. Revived the opera, putting the contract 4 operas in two years, "Die Fledermaus" by Strauss, "So tutte" by Mozart, "La Traviata" by Verdi, "Carmen" by Bizet (in concert).
Creativity Camilla Kolchinsky in Israel and Europe
editIn the spring of 1976 Camilla Kolchinsky emigrated to Israel. In the same year she successfully passed an audition for the famous Zubin Mehta, principal conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has been invited to conduct the orchestra. In the same year, as the second conductor of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra Camille just beginning to perform regularly and with other Israeli orchestras, including the Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, led by Rudolf Barshai and symphony orchestras Beersheba, Netanya, and others.
In 1977, Camilla Kolchinsky organized in Petah Tikva Chamber Orchestra, which under her leadership began a regular concert. During this period, Camilla Kolchinsky also performs with renowned soloists such as Ida Haendel, Gary Carr and others.
In 1978, Camilla took part in the master classes of the famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in Tanglivude (Massachusetts, USA).
In 1981, Camilla Kolchinsky was invited to Norway to conduct the Symphony Orchestra of Radio of the town of Stavanger and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as conductor of the work in the music department of the University of Oslo.
In 1982 she was invited to place the conductor in the Chamber Orchestra Oslo and wind symphony orchestras of the city of Drammen and Oslo, is very popular in Scandinavia.
While working in Norway Camilla Kolchinsky acts in Europe with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio and Television in the Liege Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Shvedckogo in Stockholm. In Hamburg (Germany), she conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the North German Radio, and performed with famous soloist, Vladimir Ashkenazy in Brussels with the Belgian National Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.
During his work in Europe with the 1981-89 biennium. and later in the 90s Camilla Kolchinsky becomes a guest conductor in various orchestras, including the Youth Orchestra. So, in 1983 it was invited to workshops and concerts in the School of Music in Stockholm (Sweden), and the International Academy of Music Yehudi Menuhin in Gstaad (Switzerland).
As a guest conductor she conducts workshops in the Royal Danish Conservatory and performs with a chamber orchestra there. In 1985, Camille accepts the invitation to the Academy of Music Lund University in Malmo (Sweden). She is a guest conductor in the summer and winter workshops and concerts student symphony and chamber orchestras in Oslo (Norway), as well as participant and member of the jury at international competitions of symphonic wind bands. In 1987, the Swedish studio "Hagafilm» (Hagafilm) made a film «Dirigenterne» (director Christina Olofson) about Camilla Kolchinsky, and several other women-conductors in the world.
In 1988, Camilla Kolchinsky conducts several concerts with Norwegian Symphony Orchestra, performing works by Scandinavian composers of women in the Northern Forum in Oslo - Nordic Forum 88.
See also
editReferences
edit- Harrington, Jim (November 8, 1996). "A well-conducted life". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
- Films Suédois. Svenska Filminstitutet. 1988-01-01. p. 63.
- Variety Film Reviews. Garland Pub. 1987-01-01.
- Morin, Alexander J. (2002-01-01). Classical Music: The Listener's Companion. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 286. ISBN 9780879306380.