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LERA AUERBACH Sonata for Piano
and Violin No. 3 (links to music below) Composer's website: http://www.leraauerbach.com/ Premiered by Lera Auerbach (piano) and Stefan Milenkovich (violin), February 5, 2006. Commissioned by AFCM. Sponsored by: the Harry and Lea Gudelsky Foundation (in memory of H. Paul Gudelsky) |
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One of the most widely performed composers of the new generation, Lera Auerbach is the youngest composer on the roster of Hamburg’s prestigious international music publishing company Hans Sikorski, home to Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Kancheli. A virtuoso performer, Lera Auerbach continues the great tradition of pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Auerbach's music is characterized by its stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language.
Lera Auerbach was born in October, 1973 in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. Since 1991 she has made New York City her permanent residence, while Hamburg remains her European home. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano and music composition from The Juilliard School. She went on to study at and graduated from the prestigious piano soloist program of the Hannover Hochschule für Musik.
Original program notes:
Ms. Auerbach writes about
her Sonata for Violin and Piano: "Sonata No. 3 was completed in December
2005 in Bremen, Germany. I don’t want to write what the work is ‘about’,
because ultimately music is not about anything, but the music itself.
Extra-musical thoughts, of course, are inescapable and, as with other
works of mine, explore thoughts of death, memories, violence, fear and
hope, reaching beyond the frames of gravity, beyond the limitations of
the everyday existence–reflections on the different faces of the
Time we are living in.
"Although this work’s nature is powerful in its darkness, it made me very happy. Sometimes the pain needs to be addressed in order to be freed and released and perhaps this is why this sonata was a joy for me to compose.
Performances:
May 2, 2006 Udine, Italy, by Stefan Milenkovich and pianist
May 2006 Ravenna, Italy, by Stefan Milenkovich and pianist
May 2006 Collomore, CT, by Stefan Milenkovich and pianist
Sept. 2006 Bremen, Germany, by Anton Barahovsky (violin), Lera Auerbach
(piano)
April 2008 Basel, Switzerland Denise Goldfeld (violin), Lera Auerbach
(piano)
June 2009 New York, NY, by Philippe Quint (violin), Lera Auerbach (piano)
June 2009 Boston, MA, by Philippe Quint (violin), Lera Auerbach (piano)
July 2009 Verbier, Switzerland, by Julian Rachlin (violin), Lera Auerbach
(piano)
Oct. 2009 Wals, Austria by Julian Rachlin (violin), Per Rundberg (piano)
Nov. 2009 Wladhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, by Julian Rachlin (violin),
Per Rundberg (piano)
Nov. 2009 Vienna, Austria, by Julian Rachlin (violin), Per Rundberg (piano)
Dec. 2009 Boston, MA, by Philippe Quint (violin), Lera Auerbach (piano)
Published: Musikverlag Hans
Sikorski GmbH & Co. KG
ISWC: T-802.493.398-1
GEMA ID: 9552407-001
http://www.sikorski.de
Performances are available online:
VIDEO LINK:
http://www.leraauerbach.com/video/video_listen_auerbach_sonata_for_violin_and_piano_3_rachlin.html
Jul 28, 2009 Verbier, Switzerland Julian Rachlin (violin)
AUDIO LINK:
http://www.leraauerbach.com/catalogue/sonata_for_violin_and_piano_3.html
Sep 8, 2006 Bremen, Germany Anton Barahovsky (violin)