Lea Birringer Explained

Lea Birringer
Birth Date:1986
Origin:Germany
Genre:Classical music
Instrument:Violin
Label:Rubicon Classics
Website:www.leabirringer.com

Lea Birringer (born 23 November 1986) is a German classical violinist.

Life and career

Lea Birringer's international career began at the age of 14 with her solo debut at the Berliner Philharmonie. Since then, she has been invited to international festivals, like the Salzburg Festival, MDR Musiksommer, Davos Festival, Crescendo Winter Music Festival in Florida, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the festival LuganoMusica or the Festival Internacional de Música Alfredo De Saint Malo in Panama.[1] Other highlights of recent years include, among others, performances at Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Louvre Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Gasteig Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin and Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.[2] She has been able to demonstrate her versatility and broad repertoire, which also includes contemporary pieces as well as lesser-known works, due to her collaboration with renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Münchner Symphoniker, Jena Philharmonie, Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, among others.[3] [4] [5] Lea Birringer is prizewinner at the international violin competitions Kloster Schöntal,[6] Premio Rodolfo Lipizer,[7] Louis Spohr[8] and Abram Yampolski. In 2008 she won the International Johannes Brahms Competition.[9] In addition, she has been a long-time scholarship holder of the German Music Foundation.[10] For those extraordinary accomplishments, she was honored by her hometown Saarbrücken with the Cultural Award.[11]

An enthusiastic chamber musician, Lea Birringer collaborated with artists like Pavel Vernikov, Paul Rivinius, Atar Arad, Barbara Bonney, Eszter Haffner, Wen-Sinn Yang and Igor Levit.In 2011 Lea Birringer had a big chamber music breakthrough in collaboration with her sister and permanent Duo partner Esther (Piano). The siblings caused a furor by winning two prestigious international chamber music competitions consecutively, Premio Vittorio Gui[12] and Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera Città di Pinerolo.[13] Since then they have received numerous invitations from chamber music festivals and concert series, and have impressed audiences with their "style and full-blooded commitment."[14] [15] [16] [17]

Lea Birringer's solo album Di tanti palpiti (2019), which has received critical acclaim [18] [19] and radio play,[20] [21] [22] has also earned her a Supersonic Award [23] as well as nominations at the 2020 International Classical Music Awards [24] and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.[25]

Lea Birringer started playing the violin at the age of three. She studied at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg under Igor Ozim, followed by Pavel Vernikov at the Conservatory in Vienna. She graduated both universities with honors.From 2012 to 2013 Lea was teaching as assistant of Pavel Vernikov at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, Site de Sion. At present, she is guest teacher at the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni in Italy.[26] She has been a lecturer at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar since May 2022.[27] In 2020, when the usual concert schedule had to be largely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lea Birringer contributed to Deutschlandfunk Kultur's "Geisterkonzertreihe" (Ghost Concert Series) with a highly acclaimed solo recital.[28] with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Lera Auerbach, among others, she spanned the spectrum from the baroque to the modern.[29] [30]

Discography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://asmfestivalpanama.com/es/lea-birringer Artist on ASM Festival Panama
  2. https://www.leabirringer.com/en/biography/ Lea Birringer Biography
  3. http://www.clicmusique.com/szymanovski-hindemith-respighi-sonates-pour-violon-piano-birringer-p-89007.html Catalogue of classical music
  4. https://www.leabirringer.com/en/press/ Press article about Lea Birringer
  5. https://www.concerti.de/termintipps/chemnitz/15-11-2017/lea-birringer-robert-schumann-philharmonie/ Lea Birringer & Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20180302225421/http://www.violinwettbewerb.de/pages/rueckblick/preistraeger/preistraeger-2005.php
  7. http://www.lipizer.it/il-concorso-di-violino-english/winners-of-rodolfo-lipizer-prize.html Winners of the Rodolfo Lipizer Prize
  8. https://www.hfm-weimar.de/internationaler-louis-spohr-wettbewerb-fuer-junge-geiger/unsere-preistraegerinnen/preistraegerinnen-2007/?L=0 Prize winners 2007
  9. https://www.brahmscompetition.org/preistraeger-2006-2010/ Prizewinners of the 15th international Johannes Brahms Competition 2008
  10. http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendiaten/solistenMaske.html?TID=20020927164848 Biography of Lea Birringer
  11. https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/219310 Lea Birringer on OE1
  12. http://www.operadifirenze.it/events/duo-birringer-2/ Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
  13. https://www.concorsomdcpinerolo.it/hall-of-fame/ Roll of Honour
  14. Richard Bratby: Gramophone, April 2018
  15. http://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/cd-tipp/violinsonaten-des-20-jahrhunderts/38005/ CD-Tipp Violinsonaten des 20. Jahrhunderts BR-Klassik
  16. https://www.pizzicato.lu/interpretatorische-glucksmomente/ "Interpretational moments of happiness"
  17. http://artsfuse.org/169988/classical-cd-reviews-birringer-duos-lifelines-steve-reichs-drumming-and-liza-stepanovas-tones-and-colors/ Classical CD Review
  18. https://dasorchester.de/artikel/di-tanti-palpiti/ Lea Birringer in das Orchester
  19. https://www.resmusica.com/2019/11/29/les-soeurs-birringer-di-tanti-palpiti-rubicon/ Lea Birringer bei ResMusica
  20. https://www.rbb-online.de/rbbkultur/themen/musik/cd_der_woche/Lea-Birringer-Di-tanti-palpiti.html/ CD der Woche Lea Birringer: Di Tanti Palpiti im rbb Kultur
  21. https://web.archive.org/web/20200224090819/https://www.radiobremen.de/bremenzwei/musik/cd-tipps/lea-birringer100.html CD-Tipp Radio Bremen
  22. https://radioklassik.at/di-tanti-palpiti/ CD of the week
  23. https://www.pizzicato.lu/virtuose-lieblingsstucke-einer-hervorragenden-violinistin/ Supersonic Award für Di Tanti Palpiti "Virtuoso favourite pieces by an outstanding violinist"
  24. https://www.icma-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ICMA-2020-Nomination-list-sorted-by-categories.pdf ICMA Nomination Di Tanti Palpiti
  25. https://www.schallplattenkritik.de/media/longlist-2020-1.pdf Nomination Di Tanti Palpiti for the Preis der deutschen Schaltplattenkritik
  26. https://sites.google.com/site/accademiadarchiarrigoni/Home/anno-accademico/attivita-didattica/lea-birringer Lea Birringer on the Website of Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni
  27. https://www.hfm-weimar.de/staff/professors-teachers/lehre-detail/?tx_jobase_pi3%5BjoOrgaDetail%5D=706&tx_jobase_pi3%5BjoRefererId%5D=220&tx_jobase_pi3%5Baction%5D=orgadetail&tx_jobase_pi3%5Bcontroller%5D=Elements&cHash=7c5e8af9749c09f55158a078a4e91129&L=1 Lea Birringer on the Website of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
  28. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/musik-in-der-pandemie-geisterkonzerte-als-kreatives.970.de.html?dram:article_id=474202/ "Ghost Concerts as a Creative Experiment"
  29. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/lea-birringer-spielt-bach-auerbach-und-ysaye-werke-fuer.1091.de.html?dram:article_id=480156/ Konzert for Violin solo
  30. https://o-ton.online/aktuelle_auffuehrung/o-ton-berlin-werke-fuer-violine-solo-zerban-200708/ "Successful preliminary run"
  31. https://avi-music.de/html/2014/e3432.html Release Avi - Service for music
  32. https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/f/fiorillo-violin-concerto-sinfonia-concertante/ Release Brilliant Classics
  33. http://rubiconclassics.com/release/lifelines-grieg-liszt-franck-violin-sonatas/ Release on Rubicon Classics
  34. https://open.spotify.com/artist/61cmTYeAk1tBhJQjOft4Ic Lea Birringer on spotify
  35. http://rubiconclassics.com/release/di-tanti-palpiti/ Release on Rubicon Classics

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