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Musician who is redefining classical crossover
[…] made by a Hungarian violin maker and London resident Béla Szepessy in the year 1896. I bought it from my violin teacher Clarence Myerscough, while studying at King´s School Canterbury with a generous donation from my grandparents, may they rest in peace. I must have been about 14 years old at the time. While on the Hungarian connection, after leaving school, I went on to study with a Hungarian teacher called Eszter Boda Katona who prepared me well for my music academy auditions. Eszter Katona and her husband Béla Katona,also a violin teacher were friends of Sir George Solti who was a close friend of my aunt. It was Sir George Solti who recommended me to study with Béla Katona, but as he had a position to teach in Japan I ended up studying with Eszter. BS - Ali, in 2006 you moved from Syria to Granada in […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-05-24 19:35:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor "Pathétique" | Chris Cerrone: Violin Concerto | Roshanne Etezady: Diamond Rain – Jennifer Koh, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian – Saturday, May 26, 2018, 08:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) – Livestream
[…] Ravel, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and the moderns. As a member of the Tokyo String Quartet he played a similarly broad range of works, including the complete quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. Oundjian's many recordings are available from RCA, Vox, DG, EMI, and Harmonia Mundi.Peter Oundjian was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1955. From age seven, he studied violin with Manoug Parikian in England, where he received his general education. He had later studies there with Béla Katona, and following work on several recordings with Benjamin Britten, Oundjian developed an interest in conducting. Nevertheless, he kept his focus on the violin and enrolled at London's Royal College of Music earning a gold medal for most distinguished student. He had further studies at Juilliard with Itzhak Perlman, Dorothy Delay, and Ivan Galamian.In 1980 Oundjian won the Vina Del Mar International Violin Competition in Chile. The following year he joined the Tokyo String Quartet […]
2018-04-17 09:51:00
Norwich Evening NewsCritically acclaimed as “the classical world's best known guitar duo”, Peter and Zoltán Katona are the latest high profile musicians to appear at the new series of lunchtime classical music recitals. Curated by Roger Rowe, who recently retired as ...
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