© Nikolaj Lund
© Nikolaj Lund
Violinisten Michael Germer, Marianna Shirinyan klaver, Nicholas Algot Swensen bratsch, Jonathan Algot Swensen cello
Modtager af Copenhagen Summer Festival Talentpris 2020, Michael Germer blev født i 2002 i København og begyndte som 4-årig at spille violin hos Tove Detreköy. Som 11-årig vandt han 1. Pris samt Talentpris ved Jacob Gade Konkurrencen 2013. Efter at have studeret 1 år hos Serguei Azizian, Prof. ved Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, vandt han Guldmedajle ved Berlingske Musikkonkurrence og Øresundssolist 2015.
I 2018 begyndte Germer at studere hos Prof. Dora Schwarzberg ved Buchmann-Mehta School of Music og vandt samme år 1. Pris og “Grand Prize” ved Grumiaux International Violin Competition 2018 i Bruxelles, 1. Pris ved Postacchini International Violin Competition 2018 og “Special Prize” ved Kreisler International Violin Competition 2018 i Wien, hvor han fik muligheden for at spille i Musikverein’s “Golden Hall”. I foråret 2019 spillede Germer Mendelssohns Violinkoncert No. 2 i Geneve, Saint-Saëns Violinkoncert No. 3 i Tel Aviv og spillede ved Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition 2019, hvor han nåede semifinalen som den yngste deltager. I sommeren 2019 spillede han på festivaler i Østrig og Italien og modtog i august Jacob Gade Fondens store legat ved prisoverrækkelsen i Tivolis koncertsal.
Næste sæson fremtræder Germer som solist med bl.a. Jerusalem Symfoniorkester, Haifa Symfoniorkester og BMSM Symfoniorkester.
Copenhagen Summer Festival Talentpris gives til ung, klassisk solist under 20 år. Modtageren skal besidde ekstraordinært talent i international klasse, have teknisk og musikalsk overskud, samt lovende, kunstnerisk modenhed.
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Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and in sought after pianists in Europe today. Her vibrant and virtuos musicianship puts her in demand, both as soloist and as chamber musician. Shirinyan plays with great sensitivity, understanding, technical brilliance and beauty of tone, which allows her to offer a wide range of repertoire. Her love for the music and her joy in sharing it with a larger audience are apparent in her performances.
She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life and the critics prize of the association of Danish critics. She is a frequent guest at a string of international music festivals, among them the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, MDR Summer Music Festival, Festspillene in Bergen.
Simultaneously she has won the reputation of being one of this generations leading pianists through solo appearances with orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Munich Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice to name a few. She enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Michael Balke, Lawrence Foster, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Jun Märkl, Eva Ollikainen, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, Thomas Søndergård, Marc Soustrot, Krysztof Urbanski and Joshua Weilerstein.
Shirinyan is a professor of piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, a Steinway artist and artistic director of the Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival in Denmark. From the summer 2020 also co-artistic director of the Valdres Sommersymfoni in Norway.
Shirinyan has a bright discography. All the CD’s has been received enthusiastically by international reviewers and listeners alike. Her latest release, the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra by Louis Glass which she has recorded together with the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz under the baton of maestro Daniel Raiskin has been awarded the P2 prize of the Danish radio in 2018.