Alexander Gilman is a German violinist, academic teacher and artistic director of the LGT Young Soloists.[1][2] He has been performing internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and regularly conducting masterclasses.[3][4][5][6]
Gilman gained first international media visibility in June 2006 when he won the "WestLB Music Competition" and was presented the Stradivari violin by Frank Peter Zimmermann.[10]
In 2013 Gilman founded LGT Young Soloists orchestra for highly gifted young soloists aged 12 to 30. The foundation had been created with the main goal to support young talents by giving them opportunity to perform on the concert stages. The LGT Young Soloists has been the first youth orchestra to record for RCA/Sony Music. The ensemble performed in a number of concert halls locations including Musikverein Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berliner Philharmonie, Mozarteum Salzburg, Victoria Hall Singapore and many more. Since their founding, the LGT Young Soloists have been appearing regularly at the concert halls of the metropolitan centers such as New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Moscow, Paris and Tel Aviv.[14][15][16][17]
Selected works
Beethoven RECOMPOSED with the LGT Young Soloists, a world premiere recording featuring two of the most monumental chamber music works of Ludwig van Beethoven – the Kreutzer Sonata Op. 47 and the Cello Sonata Op. 69 – in new arrangements with string orchestra accompaniment. Released in 2020 on Naxos.[18]
In 2006, after winning WestLB Music Competition in Düsseldorf, Gilman was presented the Stradivari "Ex-Croall" (dating from 1684) by Frank Peter Zimmermann, who had previously played this instrument. Gilman also plays a violin made by Ferdinando Gagliano (the last violin maker from the Gagliano family) in 1795, an instrument provided by the Fahrenkamp-Schäffler Foundation.[25]
Awards and recognition
2019: Award for Best Teaching 2019 by the Kalaidos Music University, Switzerland
2019: Three nominations for the Opus Klassik
2014: Best Teacher Award at "Talents for Europe" Music Competition
2013: Diapason d'Or for the Barber/Korngold/Waxman/Williams CD
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^Homfray, Tim (October 3, 2017). "Russian Soul: Works for String Orchestra by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Glinka, Koussevitzky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov". The Strad. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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