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<\/p>\n\u201cI always remain who I am. Only the music decides my meaning.\u201d (Guy Braunstein) A unique blend of virtuosity, restraint and creativity \u2013 this is what violinist, conductor and composer Guy Braunstein stands for. Like few others, he not only knows how to convince audiences with his music, but also how to challenge them: Whether with demanding programmes, sophisticated interpretations or his own works and arrangements \u2013 Guy Braunstein aims to surprise and reinvent. And although he can easily be categorised in the \u201ctradition of the great Jewish violinists such as Mischa Elman and Isaac Stern\u201d (Telegraph), for him music lives not only from its own history, but through perpetual renewal, updating and unexpected twists and turns.<\/p>\n
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Whether as a celebrated soloist who masters the standard repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich with ease, or as a congenial chamber music partner in a wide variety of formations: Guy Braunstein is a guest at the world\u2019s most important music centres and festivals. He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Berlin Philharmonic. His musical partners include Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Zubin, Mehta, Maurizio Pollini, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Mitsuko Uchida, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Lang Lang, Emmanuel Ax, Andris Nelsons and Semyon Bychkov.<\/p>\n
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Guy Braunstein is also present on the international concert stage as a conductor: he was Conductor and Artist inResidence with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Symfoniorkester and works with orchestras such as the Helsinki, Rotterdam and Israel Philharmonic as well as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n
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Highlights of the 2023\/24 season include concerts with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,the Prague Chamber Soloists and the Copenhagen Phil, in which Guy Braunstein will appear as soloist and conductor. The programmes include his own works such as \u201cDie Nacht wird immer verkl\u00e4rter\u201d and the Rusalka Rhapsody as well as the violin concertos by Elgar, Delius and Haydn.<\/p>\n
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Guy Braunstein\u2019s greatest and identity-forming passion is arranging and composing: In the romantic tradition of Paganini and Liszt, he brilliantly transcribes musical masterpieces for his own or other instruments and instrumentations and presents operas, chamber music or even songs in a completely new form. In addition to excerpts from Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201cEugene Onegin\u201d and \u201cSwan Lake\u201d, he has also arranged Puccini arias and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s opera \u201cRusalka\u201d. In 2023, \u201cDie Nacht wird immer verkl\u00e4rter\u201d, an rrangement of Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s string sextet \u201cVerkl\u00e4rte Nacht\u201d, celebrated its premiere with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. The violinist is particularly fond of the Beatles\u2019 songs: in addition to Six Variations on \u201cBlackbird\u201d and the arrangements of \u201cA hard day\u2019s night\u201d and \u201cSomething\u201d, Guy Braunstein also wrote \u201cAbbey Road Concerto\u201d, a highly virtuoso version of the Beatles\u2019 album \u201cAbbey Road\u201d for solo violin and orchestra.<\/p>\n
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In 2024, Guy Braunstein will release his own as well as Delius\u2019 Violin Concerto and Vaughan-Williams\u2019 \u201cThe Lark Ascending\u201d on Alpha Records in a recording with Alondra de la Parra and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li\u00e8ge. His 2019 albums \u201cTchaikovsky Treasures\u201d with Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto and his own arrangements, \u201cOld Souls\u201d with arrangements of chamber music works by Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Beethoven, Wolf and Kreisler and \u201cMusic of my Heart\u201d (2012) with works by Bloch, Chausson, Brahms, Corelli and others were praised by the international press, as well as his recording of Bruch\u2019s Violin Concerto and the \u201cScottish Fantasy\u201d, recorded with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ion Marin.
\nGuy Braunstein grew up in Tel Aviv and began playing the violin at the age of seven. He studied with Chaim Taub and later in New York with Glenn Dicterow and Pinchas Zuckerman and his mentor Isaac Stern. His collaboration with Claudio Abbado in particular is one of Guy Braunstein\u2019s most important influences. In 2000, he became the youngest violinist in the orchestra\u2019s history to take over the position of concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and helped shape the orchestra for over a decade. He was Artistic Director of the Rolandseck Festival and the clasclas Festival in Galicia. \u00a0 Guy Braunstein plays a violin made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1679.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall (Small Hall) 19h<\/p>\n
GUY BRAUNSTEIN, violin and artistic direction<\/p>\n
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041<\/p>\n
O. Partos: Yizkor for violin and strings<\/p>\n
F. P. Schubert: Rondo in A major for violin and strings, D. 438<\/p>\n
L. van Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, No. 14 (arr. D. Mitropoulos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,120],"tags":[141,148,157],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-current-season","tag-guy-braunstein-en","tag-vatroslav-lisinski-concert-hall","tag-zagreb-soloists"],"yoast_head":"\n