Ida Bieler (born 1950 in Virginia) [1] is an American violinist and professor of Violin. [2]
Bieler studied under Ruggiero Ricci at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Oscar Shumsky at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, Max Rostal in Cologne and Nathan Milstein in London. [2] From 1982 to 1988 she was concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne.
Bieler has been a member of the Melos Quartet. In 2001 she helped create the Xyrion Trio with Maria Kliegel and Nina Tichman [3] and in 2003 the Heine Quartet. [4] Since 1993 she has been Professor at the Robert Schumann University of Düsseldorf, [2] where she leads the master class for violin. (As of 2015 she is no longer with the Xyrion Trio.) [5]
Her husband was Hungarian pianist and conductor György Fischer. [6]
In 2015 she became the artistic director of University of North Carolina School of the Arts' Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute. [5]
Ida Bieler has received numerous prizes and honors including the Echo Klassik Preis, [2] the Cannes Classical Award, the Concert Artists Guild Award (New York), [3] the Vittorio Gui prize for chamber music (Florence), and a Silver Medal in the International Violin Competition Dr. Luis Sigall in Viña del Mar, Chile. [2]
She has recorded works by Anton Reicha, Paul Hindemith, Zdenek Fibich, Béla Bartók, Krzysztof Penderecki, and John Corigliano, among others, and for labels such as Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm and Naxos Records.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In this regard, she was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups.
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