A message from Prof. Shlomo Mintz (Violin) - Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival

The 44th (2024) Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival
Masterclass
Introduction of the message from Prof. Mintz.
Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz is considered by colleagues, audiences, and critics one of the foremost violinists of our time,esteemed for his impeccable musicianship, stylistic versatility, and commanding technique. He has long been acclaimed as a celebrated guest artist with many of the great orchestras and conductors on the internationa stage and continues to enchant audiences with his playing.
Awarded with many prestigious international prizes including the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Diapason D’Or, the Grand Prix du Disque, the Gramophone Award, the Edison Award and the Cremona Music Award, in 2006 he received an Honorary Degree from the Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba(Israel) and in 2022 was named Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Israel).
Born in Moscow and immigrated at 2yrs old to Israel, he studied with Ilona Feher who introduced Mintz to Isaac Stern becoming this his mentor. He was also a student of Dorothy DeLay in New York.
Along his career, he has collaborated with such a famous artists like Stern, Rostropovich, Zukerman, Perlman, Mehta, Abbado, Giulini, Muti, Temirkanov, Ida Haendel and Ivry Gitlis, among many others, and played with the best orchestras in the world.
Regularly invited by the most prestigious international competitions, Mintz has served as a jury member of the most prestigious competitions in the world (Tchaikovsky in Moscow, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the Henryk Wieniawski in Poland). He was also invited to be jury president of the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition in Japan, for several years.
Currently, he is the Mentor and President of the Jury of the International Violin Competition Buenos Aires in Argentina, President of Jury and Artistic Director of Tucuman (Argentina) Festival and National Violin Competition, as well as the president of the Ilona Fehér Budapest Violin Competition in Hungary.
He is steadily receiving invitations to conduct and play with orchestras and festivals in Europe, North and South America and Asia and giving masterclasses world-wide.
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The 44th (2024) Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival
Theme: All love and loved Mozart
August 17th - 30th in Kusatsu town, Gunma
Masterclass application will be opened in the beginning of June.
Application guidelines will be announced after mid-April on our website.
URL: kusa2/jp/en/
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