Marina Grauman (violin)

PROGRAMME:
Béla Bartók
Chaconne from Sonata for Violin Solo, Sz. 117

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for Violin Solo No 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
Grave
Fuga
Andante
Allegro

Niccolò Paganini
Caprice No 24 in A Minor, Op. 1

Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata for Violin Solo No 6 in E Major, Op. 27/6
Allegro giusto non troppo vivo

tonali

The concert will take place with the amicable support of the Senate and Ministry of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

About the Concert

„It is different. It is creative, idiosyncratic and trend-setting in all aspects. It is much more than a difficult to win music contest – TONALi. It drives top sponsorship and at the same time initiates the impulse for cultural education. It addresses young composers, high potential young musicians and numerous young listeners (more than 10,000 in 12 Hamburg based schools), who often find to classical music because of TONALi. It is a total work of art, which has been cleverly and effectively adjusted to the actual music situation. The city of Hamburg, which has strong musical scene, can be proud of TONALI, which no one today wants to miss anymore and which has found much attention far beyond Hamburg.
It is with much personal solicitousness and respect in my role as honorary president that I see the rapid development of TONALi. This unique and highly demanding music project, initiated in 2009 by two young cellists Amadeus Templeton and Boris Matchin will see its fourth edition in 2014 as a result of tireless dedication, voluntary commitment and the support of many personalities, institutions and sponsors.
The 2014 competition focuses on the violin. 12 violinists (with residence in Germany), all aiming for a solo career, may qualify and compete to win the TONALi-prize worth 10,000 Euro. Those making it to the final, will be invited to perform a violin concert in the big hall at Laeiszhalle Hamburg with the renowned The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. This poses a strong incentive for the young musicians to perform at their very best and makes them happily engage themselves with TONALi fundamental principles:
• A distinctive interest in the future of classical concerts, which in its format looks for new ideas, new rituals and contemporary communication.
• Active discussion about the question the musician can take more responsibility for the development of classical concert future.
• The willingness to widely communicate these new formats, encouraged by TONALi by its unique school activities that prove a contemporary relation between audience and musician.
TONALi sets a trend as a result of its threefold structure: „writing (composition prize), performing (Grand Prix) and listening (TuttiContest)“ and challenges many in various ways. Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor and TONALi Honorary President.
The next stage of collaboration between the Mariinsky Theatre and TONALi came with the new cultural and educational project The Sounds of Change. The task of the project is to interest young audiences in classical music concerts and involve them in organising such concerts on a practical level – right in their schools.

Official website: www.tonali.de

About the performers

Marina Grauman was born in 1994 in a family of musicians. Since 2012 she has been a student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin (class of Ulf Wallin).

Prize-winner at the International Michael Stricharz Competition in Lvov (2006, 1^st prize), the International Yevgeny Mravinsky Youth Competition in St Petersburg (2008, 2^nd prize), the International Competition of Young Violinists Bravo! in Namur (2009, 1^st prize) and the International Competition at Lake Constance in Germany (2013, 3^rd prize). In 2014 she received the Mieczysław Weinberg Prize “for the best interpretation of works from the 20^th and 21^st centuries at the TONALi competition.

As a member of the Amabile string quartet she received 1st prize at the International Yury Ovcharek Competition (2012).

Has taken part in the festivals Musical Olympus (St Petersburg), the Elan International Music Festival (Dallas), Music Mountain (Connecticut), Youth Classics (Zurich) and Podium (Esslingen).

She has been the first performer of a series of works by contemporary Russian and foreign composers.

In 2014 she received a grant from TONALi (Hamburg). At different times she has been a grant-recipient of the Ministry of Culture, the Philharmonic Society of St Petersburg, the programme Russia’s Talented Youth, the Hans und Stefan Bernbeck-Stiftung (Frankfurt) and the Lucia-Loeser-Stiftung (Berlin).

Age category 6+