Music Sharing

Photo: T.Sanders

The internationally acclaimed violinist Midori is a visionary artist, activist and educator whose relentless drive has spurred her to explore and build connections between music and the human experience. Since her debut, with the New York Philharmonic, at age 11, under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Midori has soloed with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra. Her numerous CDs and DVDs include a 2013 Grammy Award-winning disc. Midori, who is Japanese-American, has founded various not-for-profit organizations, bringing highest quality instruction and performances to schools, hospitals, and difficult-to-access communities around the world. For such commitments, she has been named a UN Messenger of Peace, while in 2012 receiving the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Midori, who received an honorary doctorate from Yale University, is currently a Distinguished Professor of Violin at the USC Thornton School of Music, and has served as a Humanitas Professor at Oxford University.
http://www.gotomidori.com/
http://www.intermusica.co.uk/artist/Midori

Winner of the 2012 Latvian Great Music Award, Elina Buksha is considered one of her nation's leading younger violinists. A student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, she has performed at such festivals as the Festival de Wallonie (Belgium), the International Music Festival in Yaroslavl (Russia), Rheingau Musik Festival (Germany), and the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian (France). Since her debut with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve, she has performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Ms. Buksha has recorded Saint-Saëns and Lalo violin concerti for the Alpha Label.
http://musicchapel.org/elina-buksha/

Photo: Kate Lemmon

Benjamin Beck, the first violist of the Bavarian State Orchestra, was a student at the Conservatoire national superieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) and subsequently at the New England Conservatory of Music. He also studied for an Artist Diploma from the CNSMDP, and is a graduate of the Sorbonne, with a degree in Musicology. He won both first and special prizes in the international competition in Llanes, Spain (“Villa de Llanes”), and was since awarded in Epernay (France), the Forbesfest Competition (in St. Andrew, U.K.), and Beethoven's Hradec Competition (in the Czech Republic). His first solo recording is entitled L'alto et la voix.
http://benjaminbeck.fr/

A native of Courbevoie, France, the cellist Stanislas Kim is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies with Leonid Gorokhov in Hannover. In 2011, he received the Maggini Foundation Award and a special prize for his interpretation of Bach's Cello Suites. In the same year he won the Gundlach Music Prize in Hannover. He is laureate of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria and the International Hindemith Competition in Berlin, and in 2014 was a prizewinner at the 8th Swedish International Duo Competition, together with the pianist Marie Rosa Günter.
https://www.stanislaskim.com/

Paul Müller-Hahl is a film documentarian whose studies of philosophy, arts and media have led him to a career telling the stories of “ordinary” people and places, finding the beating heart of society in the lives that fit together in remarkable dimensions. One early work, Ein Heim in Wald, shed light on the treatment of asylum seekers before the convulsive migratory crisis of recent years. The recipient of a Master of Arts degree from the Bauhaus University, Weimar, he and a partner formed Lichtbilder Filmproduktion in 2011, to document classical music performance, while examining that world from a variety of perspectives.
http://www.lichtbilder-filmproduktion.de/