Judith Stapf

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Judith Stapf
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Stapf in 2014
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Born (1997-05-31) 31 May 1997 (age 26)
Rheinbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
GenresClassical
Instrument(s)Violin

Judith Stapf (born 31 May 1997) is a German classical violinist.

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Biography

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Stapf at the dress rehearsal of the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014

Born in Rheinbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stapf received violin lessons at the age of three. At a children's concert in the Frankfurter Alte Oper she had her first concert appearance at the age of eight. She had her first appearances as a soloist at the age of ten in the Cologne Basilica St. Maria im Kapitol and in the Kölner Philharmonie, afterwards also at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  [ de ].

After having been taught privately or as part of international master classes until 2008, she attended the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 2008 as a participant of the Pre-College Cologne. She regularly studied at this university from 2013 to 2018.

In spring 2014 the Westdeutscher Rundfunk nominated her as a German participant in the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014 competition. She performed there in the finale Dmitri Shostakovich's Burleske aus op. 77 with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln.

In 2016 she appeared as a guest in the concert series "Junge Elite" at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. [1]

From 2016 to 2018 she belonged to the first generation of students at the newly founded Barenboim–Said Akademie in Berlin.

Since the winter semester 2018/2019 she has been studying in the Master's programme at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Stapf plays a violin by Andrea Guarneri. [2]

Judith Stapf and Jerzy Gross

At the age of ten Stapf came across the title melody of Spielberg's film Schindler's List, a violin piece interpreted by Itzhak Perlman by the composer John Williams. Out of interest for the background of the play she made contact with the Holocaust-survivor Jerzy Gross  [ de ] in 2008. The former violinist belonged to the so-called "Schindler's juden", who had worked for the entrepreneur Oskar Schindler and were saved from murder in the extermination camp. The exchange of several years between Stapf and Gross led to the book Spiel mir das Lied vom Leben - Judith und der Junge von Schindlers Liste by Angela Krumpen in 2011. [3] For the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Martin Buchholz documented a common journey to Poland to stations of Gross's suffering. [4] Since 19 November 2015, an Internet website has been in existence that focuses on the encounter between Judith Stapf and Jerzy Gross. [5] In January 2018 she played "Nigun" by Ernest Bloch in the German Bundestag in the commemoration hour for the victims of National Socialism. [6] [7]

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References

  1. "Landpartie: Marc Gruber, Judith Stapf und Fabian Müller". Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). Archived from the original on 11 May 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  2. "Biography, Vita - Judith Stapf". www.judithstapf.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  3. Spiel mir das Lied vom Leben. Judith und der Junge von Schindlers Liste on WorldCat 2014, ISBN   9783451066870
  4. Judith und der Mann von Schindlers Liste, website of Martin Buchholz, retrieved 6 November 2019
  5. "Spiel mir das Lied vom Leben" . Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  6. "ZDFmediathek". Gedenkstunde für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  7. "Deutscher Bundestag - Mediathek". Gedenken an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Retrieved 6 November 2019.