Arthur Grumiaux
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Arthur Grumiaux |
| Born | (1921-03-21)21 March 1921 Villers-Perwin, Belgium |
| Died | 16 October 1986(1986-10-16) (aged 65) Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
Baron Arthur Grumiaux (French: [gʁy'mjo]; 21 March 1921 – 16 October 1986) was a Belgian violinist.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Death
4 Recordings
5 His violins
6 Violin Competition
6.1 History
6.2 Prize winners
6.3 Jury 2018
6.4 Previous years
6.5 Further reading
7 References
8 External links
Early life
Born in the Belgian town of Villers-Perwin, on 21 March 1921,[1] Grumiaux was only three years old when his grandfather urged him to begin music studies. He entered the conservatoire in Charleroi at the age of six; the normal entry age was eleven. He studied violin and piano there until the age of eleven, when he graduated and moved to the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels to study violin.[2]
Career
Arthur Grumiaux (1965)
He variously has been described as having made his debut in Brussels at the age of 14,[2] or in 1935,[1] although his debut is more commonly said to have occurred in 1940.[3][4][5] This performance was made in Belgium with the Brussels Philharmonic playing Mendelssohn's concerto.[4]
Due to the German invasion of his homeland, he next played publicly after liberation in 1945 with the Allied military entertainment organisation,[6][7] making his London debut later that year.[3][4] In 1949 he was appointed professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatoire where he had once studied.[3][8] He debuted in the United States in Boston, in 1951, and toured the United States in the following year.[6][9]
In 1973 he was created a baron by King Baudouin of Belgium for his services to music.[8]
Death
He died of a sudden stroke in Brussels in 1986 at the age of 65.[1]
Recordings
Grumiaux had a long-standing relationship with Philips Records, lasting more than 20 years, and recordings are available from them of him performing works by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Michael Haydn, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Henryk Wieniawski, and Johan Svendsen.[10][11]
A recording of Grumiaux's performance of one movement from Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin, the "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3, is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft, as a sample of the culture of Earth.[12]
His violins
He owned both a Guarneri, the "Rose", made by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1744,[13] and a Stradivarius, the "General Dupont", made in 1727.[14]
Violin Competition
Logo of the competition
The International Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists is held annually and takes place at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Belgium.[15][16] It was first held in 2008 under the name of "Bravo",[17] In 2015, the competition was renamed in honour of Arthur Grumiaux,[18] and is now called Concours International Grumiaux pour Jeunes Violonistes (International Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists).[19]
History
The competition was created in 2008 by Igor Tkatchouk, a violin professor at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur,[20] originally under the name of "Bravo!" competition.[21] It took place each year at the Institut [22] and since 2017 in the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels. In 2015, the competition was supported by the foundation Baron Arthur Grumiaux [23] and was renamed International Arthur Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists.[24] The same year, Princess Léa of Belgium rewarded the winners at the Royal Theater of Namur.
The competition is international and was represented in 2016 by 27 different nationalities
Since 2016 edition, Musiq'3 became the official partner of the project [25] and in the same year, the Belgian TV news RTBF show a spot on television
[26]
Prize winners
There are four categories of prizes, based on the age of the performer: category A : through 10 years old, category B ages 11–13, category C ages 14–17, and category D ages 18–21.[27]
| Year | 1st Prize Cat A | 1st Prize Cat B | 1st Prize Cat C | 1st Prize Cat D | Special Prize |
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| 2018 |  EunSeo Cho SungWoo Lee  Viktor Vasiliev |  Leonard Toschev  Pauline Van Der Rest |  Michael Germer |  Emma Gibout | Michael Germer (Special jury prize )
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| 2017 |  Fiona Khuong-Huu | Ryota Nakamura
|  Georgii Moroz
| - | Meurice Victorine (Special Prize - Young Hope )
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| 2016[28] |  Bade Daştan |  Aliaksandra Arbuzava
| Emiri Kobayashi
| Yurina Arai | Emiri Kobayashi (Best Interpretation of a Belgian piece)
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| 2015 | NAKANO Lina (Grand prize)
|  KARLS Lorenz
|  CARDAROPOLI Gennaro |  RIMBU Remus |  Spruit Charlotte (Best Interpretation of a Belgian piece)
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| 2014 | VAN DER REST Pauline (Grand prize)
| SCHMÖLZER Eva Lucia
| TING Belle Chang-Yuan | DEBROEYER Quentin | Belle Ting (Best Interpretation of a Belgian piece)
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| 2013 | Cooreman Alexandra (Grand prize)
| Walder Julian(Grand prize)
|  Ibrahimova Aytan
|  Šroubková Olga
| - |
| 2012 |  von Albertini Emilia (Grand prize)
| Csikos Anett | Girard Grégoire | - | - |
| 2011 |  Lozakovitj Daniel | - | Willem Floris
| - | - |
| 2010 | Guo Linda |  Egorovs Andrels
| - | - | - |
| 2009 | Boschkor Laras
| Levy Maya |  Grauman Marina |  Managadze-Postnikova Nikolai | - |
| 2008 |  Csikos Anett | Csikos Vilmos | Lee Jae-Eun | - | - |
Jury 2018
- Mr. Igor Tkatchouk - Belgium - President of the jury
- Mrs Dora Schwarzberg - Austria
- Mr. Roman Fedchuk - Czech Rep
- Mrs Tetiana Zolozova - France
- Mr. Yossif Ivanov - Belgium
- Mr. Philippe Koch - Belgium
- Mr. George Tudorache - Belgium
- Mr. Muhammedjan Turdiev - Turkey
Previous years
- Alexei Moshkov – Belgium(2012)
- Anna Sundin – Sweden(2013, 2014, 2015)
- Anne Léonardo – Belgium(2009)
- Dora Schwarzberg – Austria(2013 à 2017)
- Guido Jardon - Belgium(2008 à 2012)
- Jean-Frédéric Molard – Belgium(2010, 2011)
- Luba Aroutiounian – Belgium(2008)
- Michel Poskin – Belgium(2009)
- Muhammedjan Turdiev – Turkey(2014 à 2017)
- Nina Nazymova – France (2013)
- Philippe Descamps – Belgium(2011, 2012, 2013)
- Roman Fedchuk – Czech Republic (2009 à 2017)
- Saveliy Shalman – Russia(2009)
- Shirly Laub – Belgium(2010, 2012, 2016, 2017)
- Tatiana Samouil – Belgium(2008, 2012, 2013)
- Tetiana Zolozova – France (2013 à 2017)
- Ulysse Waterlot – Belgium(2010)
- Valery Oistrakh – Belgium(2011)
- Igor Tkatchouk – Belgium(Chairman 2008 to 2017)
Further reading
- Arthur Grumiaux on Violin Channel
- 2018 finalists on Violin Channel
- 2018 prizes of Grumiaux Competition on Violin Channel
- Article and video on Canal C
Un prestigieux concours international pour jeunes violonistes a lieu à Namur on RTBF website, Sonia Boulanger- Grumiaux competition on lavenir.net
- Article in Turkey
- Grumiaux competition on crescendo-magazine.be
References
^ abc State, Paul F. (2015). Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 190..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ ab Campbell, Margaret (2011). "34 The Musician's Musician". The Great Violinists. Faber and Faber. p. 167.
^ abc "Arthur Grumiaux, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica.
^ abc Burgess, Patricia; Turner, Roland (1989). The Annual Obituary. St. James Press. p. 580.
^ Roth, Henry (1997). Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century. California Classic Books. p. 203.
^ ab Campbell, Margaret (2011). "34 The Musician's Musician". The Great Violinists. Faber and Faber. p. 168.
^ Lloyd, Stephen (2014). Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande. Boydell Press. p. 332.
^ ab "Legendary Violinists: Arthur Grumiaux". www.thirteen.org.
^ "Arthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings". Parnassus Classical CDs and Records.
^ "ARTHUR GRUMIAUX: PHILIPS RECORDINGS 1955-1978". Classics Today.
^ "Arthur Grumiaux - Philips Recordings 1955-1977".
^ "Golden Record: Music From Earth". JPL.
^ "The Art of Arthur Grumiaux". Audiophile Audition. 26 May 2014.
^ "Frank Peter Zimmermann receives 'General Dupont', 'Grumiaux' Stradivarius on long-term loan". The Strad. 20 January 2016.
^ "Revivez le concert des lauréats du Concours Grumiaux 2016". RTBF (in French). 1 February 2016.
^ "Un prestigieux concours international pour jeunes violonistes a lieu à Namur". RTBF (in French). 10 February 2016.
^ "8ème CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL "Arthur Grumiaux"". Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie (in French).
^ "Concours pour violonistes". lavenir.net (in French). 23 March 2015.
^ "Contact". Best of Violin (in French).
^ "Revivez le concert des lauréats du Concours Grumiaux 2016" (in French). 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
^ "8e Concours International Arthur Grumiaux". Retrieved 2016-07-21.
^ "IMEP » 8ème CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL " Arthur Grumiaux "".
^ http://www.grumiaux.net/entree.cfm
^ L. S. "Concours pour violonistes".
^ Musiq'3 partenaire du Concours Grumiaux
^ Un prestigieux concours international pour jeunes violonistes a lieu à Namur
^ "Rules".
^ Heifetz (2016-02-18). "Prizes Awarded at 2016 Grumiaux International Junior Violin Comp". Retrieved 2016-07-21.
External links
The way they played: Arthur Grumiaux, The Strad
Bach's Chaconne on film: Arthur Grumiaux, The Strad
Competition site, Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition
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