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Lera Auerbach (Russian: Лера Авербах, full name Valeria Lvovna
Auerbach, Russian: Валерия Львовна Авербах; 21 October 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is a Russian-born
composer of the 21st century.
Early
Life & Education
Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering
Siberia. She holds degrees
in piano and composition from The Juilliard
School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and
composition with Milton Babbitt. She also graduated from
the piano soloist program of the Hannover Hochschule für Musik.
Composition
Auerbach's compositions have been commissioned and performed by
a wide array of artists, orchestras and ballet companies including
Gidon Kremer, the
Kremerata
Baltica, David Finckel, Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Tokyo, Kuss, Parker and Petersen
String Quartets, the SWR and NDR (Hannover) Symphony Orchestras,
NDR Hamburg and the Royal Danish Ballet. Auerbach’s
music has also been commissioned and performed by leading Festivals
throughout the world including Caramoor, Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Bremen and
Schleswig-Holstein.
A new commission by The Royal Danish Ballet, to celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's
bicentenary, was Lera Auerbach's second collaboration with choreographer John Neumeier. The
ballet is a modern rendition
of the classic fairy
tale 'The Little Mermaid' and was
premiered successfully in April 2005 at the then newly-opened Copenhagen Opera House.[1]
Performance
Auerbach made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002,
performing her own Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra with Gidon Kremer and the
Kremerata
Baltica. Her music has been presented at Carnegie Hall each
season since then.[2]
Auerbach has appeared as solo pianist at such venues as the Bolshoi Saal of
the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo's Opera City, New York's Lincoln Center, Munich's Herkulessaal, Oslo's Konzerthaus, Chicago's Symphony
Hall and Washington's Kennedy
Center.
Awards
& Recognition
In 2005 Auerbach received the Paul Hindemith Prize from the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In the same year she received
the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk and the Bremer Musikfest Prize; she
is currently composer in residence at Bremer. In 2007, her
Symphony No. 1 "Chimera" received its world premiere by
the Düsseldorf Symphony. Other 2007 premieres included Symphony
No. 2 "Requiem for a Poet" by Hannover's NDR Radio
Philharmonic, as well as A Russian Requiem by the Bremen
Philharmonic with the Latvian National Choir and the Estonian Opera
Boys Choir.
Auerbach is also a writer. She has published six volumes of
poetry and prose in Russian. In 2007, she was selected as a member
of the forum of Young Global
Leaders by the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
Recordings
- 24 Preludes (BIS 2003)
- Tolstoy's Waltz (BIS 2004)
- Auerbach plays Mozart (ARABESQUE 2005)
- Ballet for a Lonely Violinist (BIS 2005)
- Preludes and Dreams (BIS 2006)
- Cetera Desunt, String Quartet No. 3 (CAPRICCIO
2006)
- Flight and Fire (PROFIL - Hänssler Classics 2007)
External
links
Notes
- ^ Jerry Bowles: "The
Total Package", Sequenza 21, Wednesday, August 10, 2005 http://www.sequenza21.com/2005/08/lera-auerbach-total-package.html
- ^
Carnegie Hall Schedule Publications 05.01.2002 Suite for Violin,
Piano and Orchestra (Gidon Kremer, violin; Lera Auerbach, piano and
Kremerata Baltica) 10.07.2003 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2
(Philippe Quint Violin, Adam Neiman, Piano) 2004 20.02.2004 Sonata
for Solo Cello (Christophor Miroshnikov, cello) 04.01.2005 Dreams
and Whispers of Poseidon - (American Youth Symphony) 2006 Trio for
Violin Piano and Orchestra (Clavier Trio) 03.11.2007 Oskolki for
Violin and Piano (Borok-Ponochevny Duo)
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