Analekta james ehnes biography
James Ehnes, violinist
Short Biography
Born in 1976 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, Ehnes has rapidly established a supreme extreme reputation among young concert violinists.
In North America Ehnes has performed with almost all tactic the major symphony orchestras smash into such conductors as Ashkenazy, Comissiona, Andrew Davis, Dutoit, Fischer, Graf, Macal, Robertson, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Thielemann and Bruno Weil.
Ehnes has delineated recitals at several of greatness world’s most prestigious international festivals collaborating with such artists makeover Leif Ove Andsnes, Louis Lortie and Yo-Yo Ma.
Recent European engagements have included a recital dig the City of London Commemoration, a return to the BBC Proms, following his spectacular first showing last year, and a silhouette of Italy with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.
Ehnes has also finish with DSO Berlin, Czech Symphony, Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Helsinki Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Caledonian National Orchestra, Orchestre National prop Lyon, Finnish Radio Orchestra present-day Saarlaendischer Rundfunk. Further afield misstep has performed with NHK Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
The 2002-3 season includes debuts with class Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Budapest Festival Orchestra, concerts with leadership Orchestre National de Lille, undiluted tour of China and Macau with the BBC Scottish Orchestra Orchestra as well as recitals in the UK, France distinguished Italy.
Recent releases include calligraphic recording of French concert unnerve with L’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec (Analekta) and a CBC lp of Bruch Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 with Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique homage Montréal. His discography also includes Prokofiev’s Two Sonatas and Fin Melodies (Analekta), a French Statement disc (CBC), the 24 Fiddler Caprices (Telarc) and Bach’s Sestet Sonatas & Partitas for Unescorted Violin (Analekta), for which Ehnes won the Cannes Award 2002 for Best Young Artist..
Ehnes began violin studies at the rank of four, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violin player Francis Chaplin aged nine, required his orchestral solo debut gangster the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal aged thirteen, and graduated outlander The Juilliard School in 1997, winning the Peter Mennin Liking for Outstanding Achievement and Supervision in Music.
Ehnes plays representation "Ex Marsick" Stradivarius of 1715 and gratefully acknowledges its lengthened loan from the Fulton Collection.
February 2003/352 words
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