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URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/lera-auerbach/
SUMMARY:Lera Auerbach
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\nBorn in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on t
 he border of Siberia\, Russian-American composer\, concert pianist\, poet 
 and visual artist Lera Auerbach has become one of today’s most sought af
 ter and exciting creative voices. She has published more than 100 works fo
 r orchestra\, opera and ballet\, as well as choral and chamber music.\nLer
 a Auerbach’s intelligent and emotional style has connected her to audien
 ces around the world and her work is championed by today’s leading perfo
 rmers\, including violinists Gidon Kremer\, Leonidas Kavakos\, Vadim Gluzm
 an\, Hilary Hahn\, Vadim Repin\, Daniel Hope\, Julian Rachlin\, Nadja Sale
 rno-Sonnenberg and Dmitry Sitkovetsky\; violists Kim Kashkashian and David
  Aaron Carpenter\; cellists Alisa Weilerstein\, Gautier Capuçon\, Alban G
 erhardt\, David Finckel\, Joshua Roman\, David Geringas\, Ani Aznavoorian\
 , Wendy Warner\, and Narek Hakhnazaryan\; and singers Zoryana Kushpler\, N
 atalia Ushakova\, Martin Winkler\, Nikita Storojev and Stella Grigorian\, 
 among many others. Auerbach has written eight string quartets that have be
 en championed by the Tokyo\, Borromeo\, Parker\, Jasper\, Ying\, Peterson\
 , Artemis\, Granados and RTÉ Vanbrugh string quartets.\n\n​Auerbach’s
  works for orchestra are performed by the world’s leading conductors\, i
 ncluding Christoph Eschenbach\, Vladimir Fedoseyev\, Vladimir Spivakov\, N
 eeme Järvi\, Vladimir Jurowski\, Charles Dutoit\, Andris Nelsons\, Andras
  Keller and Osmo Vänskä.\n\nChoreographers and stage directors such as J
 ohn Neumeier\, Aszure Barton\, Goyo Montero\, Terence Kohler\, Sol León\,
  Paul Lightfoot\, Medhi Walerski\, Reginaldo Oliveira\, Christine Milietz\
 , and John La Bouchardiere have staged Auerbach’s ballets and operas\, w
 hich have been produced in major theaters on every continent\, including t
 he Hamburg State Opera\, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien\, New York’s Lin
 coln Center\, the National Ballet of Canada\, National Ballet of China\, t
 he Royal Danish Theater\, Nuremberg State Theater\, the Finnish National T
 heater\, Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater\, the Netherlands Dance Theatre\,
  and San Francisco Ballet.\n\n​For 2015\, Ms. Auerbach is composer-in-re
 sidence at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival and the Rheingau Musik Festival
  in Germany. She has been composer-in-residence with many orchestras and m
 usic festivals\, including the Staatskapelle Dresden (Germany)\, São Paul
 o Symphony (Brazil)\, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan)\, Concerto Budap
 est Symphony Orchestra (Hungary)\, New Century Chamber Orchestra (USA)\, V
 erbier Festival (Switzerland)\, Trondheim Festival (Norway)\, Marlboro Fes
 tival (USA)\, MusikFest Bremen (Germany)\, Lockenhaus Festival (Austria) a
 nd Pacific Music Festival (Japan).\n\nAuerbach is equally prolific in lite
 rature and the visual arts (especially painting and sculpture) and incorpo
 rates these forms into her professional creative process\, simultaneously 
 expressing ideas visually\, in words\, and through music. She has publishe
 d three books of poetry in Russian and her first English-language book\, 
 “Excess of Being” – in which she explores the difficult form of the 
 aphorism – was published by Arch Street Press in 2015. Her visual art ha
 s been included in several exhibitions and\, in 2013\, her first solo exhi
 bition was presented in Norway. Her paintings are often exhibited at perfo
 rmances of her musical work and have been reproduced in magazines\, CDs an
 d books.\n\n​As a poet\, Ms. Auerbach has been long established\, and wa
 s named Poet of the Year in 1996 by the International Pushkin Society in N
 ew York. Her poetry and prose has been included in various anthologies and
  high school textbooks. She is the author of several librettos and is a re
 gular contributor to the Best American Poetry blog\, in her column The Tro
 uble Clef. In recent years Gerard Depardieu\, Sergei Yursky and Evgeny Kis
 sin have been reciting her poems in performances. Sergei Yursky also recor
 ded a CD or poetry from her book\, “Stairs to Eternity” and wrote the 
 foreword for her “Hanover Notebooks.”\n\nAuerbach often gives poetry r
 eadings (in Russian and English)\, presentations and talks\, and master cl
 asses on performance and composition\, including those at Harvard Universi
 ty\, the University of Michigan\, the Cleveland Institute\, the Open Socie
 ty Institute in New York\, Tokyo University\, the World Economic Forum in 
 Davos\, Switzerland\, The Music Center of Budapest\, Hungary and the poetr
 y festival of West Cork\, Ireland\, as well as music festivals in Verbier\
 , Aspen\, Marlboro\, Sapporo\, Trondheim and others.\n\nAuerbach’ has wr
 itten two operas. Her opera\, Gogol – for which she wrote both the libre
 tto and music–was commissioned by the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and 
 received its critically acclaimed premiere in 2011. This occasion marked t
 he first time a major opera written by a female composer was produced in V
 ienna. Her groundbreaking sensory-immersive a cappella opera\, The Blind\,
  has received productions in Germany\, Norway\, Russia\, the United States
  and Austria.\n\n​Auerbach has enjoyed a long-standing collaboration wit
 h renowned choreographer John Neumeier. Together they have created three t
 hree highly popular ballets: Tatiana\, The Little Mermaid\, and Preludes C
 V. The most recent\, Tatiana (a reimagining of Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin)\
 , was premiered in 2014 through a joint commission by the Hamburg State Th
 eater in Germany and the Stanislavsky Theater in Russia. The Little Mermai
 d\, was the winner of a 2012 ECHO Klassik award for Best Music DVD. It als
 o received two Golden Mask awards and has been performed over 300 times wo
 rldwide. Auerbach’s first collaboration with Neumeier\, Préludes CV\, w
 as recently revived to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Hamburg Bal
 let.\n\nMs. Auerbach has also collaborated with the Netherlands Dance Thea
 tre and its choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot on Shine a Light\;
  with Goyo Montero on Don Juan and Faust for the Staatstheater Nürnberg\;
  with Azure Barton on Watch Her for the National Ballet of Canada\; with T
 im Plegge on Momo and Reginaldo Oliveira on Mythos for the Badisches Staat
 stheater Karlsruhe\; and with Terence Kohler on four ballets: Heroes for t
 he Munich State Ballet\, Take Your Time for the Chinese National Ballet\, 
 11:11 for the Flanders National Ballet and Cinderella for the Finnish Nati
 onal Ballet.\n\n​Other recent highlights include Auerbach’s oratorio\,
  In Praise of Peace\, commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Verbier
  Festival\, the multilingual Requiem—Dresden Ode to Peace for the Staats
 kapelle Dresden\, the string symphony Memoria de la luz\, her Russian Requ
 iem\, three violin concertos\, a double concerto for violin\, piano and or
 chestra\, Symphonies Nos. 1 (Chimera) and 2 (Requiem for a Poet)\, Gallows
  Songs for chorus and saxophone quartet\, and several symphonic poems: Pos
 t silentium\, Eterniday and Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon.\n\n​Auerbac
 h has received numerous awards\, including the prestigious Hindemith Prize
 \, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship\, the German National Radio prize a
 nd the ECHO Klassik award\, among others. From 2007-2012 Auerbach was a Yo
 ung Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Today\, she serves
  the WEF as a Cultural Leader\, giving presentations around the world on B
 orderless Creativity. The LeraArt Foundation\, a 501c3 organization\, was 
 established in her name in 2015 and seeks to create an artist-centric para
 digm for composers through its “Modern Renaissance” project.\n\nAuerba
 ch graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degree in composition from t
 he Juilliard School and a post-graduate degree in piano from Hanover Unive
 rsity of Music\, Drama and Media in Germany. Her work is published exclusi
 vely by the Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski. Her music is availa
 ble on Deutsche Grammophon\, Nonesuch\, BIS\, Cedille and other labels.\n\
 n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuerbach: 8 Preludes\nMussorgsky: Pictures
  at an Exhibition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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