Music
Leonard Bernstein Award in 2016 goes to Felix Klieser
The German Hornist with excited music fans around the world with his game – without arms. This year he is with the major music awards for young musicians awards.
With 10,000 euros prize Leonard Bernstein Award is jählich in the framework of the Schleswig-Holstein music festival awarded. Festivalintendant Christian Kuhnt said on the occasion of the announcement of the award ceremony on Wednesday, 03.02.2016) over Klieser : “His outstanding technique and the ability, to be his Instrument to Sing, are”overwhelming”.
In 1991, in Göttingen, without arms, born Hornist plays a commercially available Instrument. When you Play the rest of the Instrument and sene heels on a specially made stand. Klieser operated the valves of the horn with the toes of his left foot.
In the top of the world
In the meantime, Felix Klieser as one of the best horn player in the world. Already at the age of four, he expressed his desire to play this Instrument. At the age of 17, he was at the Hochschule for music, Theater and media in Hannover included and belonged from 2008 to 2011, the national youth orchestra. Klieser, also national winner of the competition “Jugend musiziert”, won in 2014 the “Echo Klassik” as the young artist of the year. He has performed among others with Sir Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic and with the British pop singer Sting.
A specially developed technique
2013 appeared to be
Debut Album “Reveries”. Critics praised the most sophisticated timbres, the Klieser it produced. While most horn-player voices with the Hand in the Schaltrichter influence, found Felix Klieser other ways to do this. In his 2014 book, published “footnotes – A horn player without arms conquers the world”, he explained: “This can be done with air, with the mouth area and the lips.”
Iron Discipline
A large German newspaper called Felix Klieser as “absolutely exceptional talent”. He himself, however, plays the Talentfaktor down. “Talent is overrated!”, as he once said. He lead his success to hard work and willpower back: “unfortunately, I am not the type of something from nature”. He had to get everything from scratch, so practice it daily for eight hours. “Maybe I have the Horn, therefore, chosen because I thought: If I’s in order to create, I can do it with everything.”
The CD ‘Reveries’, he with the pianist Christof Keymer recorded, was of the criticism praised.
Ceremony in the summer
The Leonard Bernstein Award of the German savings and Giro Association for Schleswig-Holstein donated and in the course of the Schleswig-Holstein music festival in July and August, was awarded. Its President Reinhard Boll said: “We are proud once again this year an exceptional artist to honor the ideal in a number of the big names of the winners of the Leonard Bernstein Award to RUB together.”
The winners of the 2003 awards the newcomer award include the pianists Lang Lang, Jonathan Biss, Jan Lisiecki, and Kit Armstrong, as well as the pianist Anna Vinnitskaya. In addition, the violinist Lisa Batiashvili, the Organist Cameron Carpenter, the percussionist Martin Grubinger and conductor Krzysztof Urbański.