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1/29 James Ehnes

2010-01-29 23:56:16 | 演奏
http://www.jamesehnes.com/biography.html



James Ehnes was born in 1976 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. He began violin studies
at the age of four, at age nine he became a prot馮・of the noted Canadian
violinist Francis Chaplin. He studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music,
then in 1993 at The Juilliard School. He graduated from Julliard in 1997,
winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music.
Mr. Ehnes first gained national recognition in 1987 as winner of the Grand Prize
in Strings at the Canadian Music Competition. The following year he won the First Prize
in Strings at the Canadian Music Festival, the youngest musician ever to do so.
At age 13, he made his orchestral solo debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montr饌l.
He has won numerous awards and prizes, including the first-ever Ivan Galamian
Memorial Award, the Canada Council for the Arts' prestigious Virginia Parker Prize,
and a 2005 Avery Fisher Career Grant. In October 2005, James was honoured by
Brandon University with a Doctor of Music degree (honoris causa) and in July 2007
he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.

James Ehnes plays the "Marsick" Stradivarius of 1715 and gratefully acknowledges
its extended loan from the Fulton Collection. He currently lives in Bradenton,
Florida with his wife Kate.




この日マスタークラスでまず最初にエネスさんの公開レッスンがあり、
僕のように音がデリケートすぎて低い音の響きが足りなかった人も
魔法がかかったようにダイナミズムを取り戻し、それはうらやましい限りでした。
明らかに雰囲気が変わったその時、思わず僕と隣に居た友人と二人で小さく拍手して
クラスの皆の笑いを誘ってしまい、えっと、その、・・すいません(純粋に凄いと思いました


場所を移してSt.David's Hall、7時半からのPhilhamonia Orchestraの定期公演。

Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Violin James Ehnes
Elgar Overture, Cockaigne (14')
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (30')
Elgar Symphony No 1 (50')


誰もがご存じメンデルスゾーンのコンチェルト。
全体的にテンポは早めでサクサク進むといった感じでしたが
その中でもちゃんとたおやかな流れをくんでいて決して不快を感じさせません。

流石はストラディバリウス、ものすごく透明感があるんですよ。
スカッと晴れた空が広がるみたいで(


これでもっと響きの良いホールだったら・・・と思うと
更に彼に対する期待感が膨らむ、終始わくわくさんにさせてくれるパフォーマンスでした。

アンコールはパガニーニの16番で、これまたスラスラと弾き切ってしまわれるともう・・・;



終わった後に休憩が入り、次のエルガーの1番は僕達のすぐ傍まで来て座って聴いてたんですよ(



・・僕も頑張ろう。「僕に出来ることを」、だ!