German violinist
Saschko Gawriloff
(born October 20, 1929) is a German violinist and violin teacher of Bulgarian descent.
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Gawriloff was born in
Leipzig
and received his first violin lessons from his father Yordan Gavriloff, who was a violinist in the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
. He then studied with
Walther Davisson
,
Gustav Havemann
, and Martin Kovacz, the last of whom had been a pupil of
David Oistrakh
and
Jen? Hubay
. After completing his formal education, Gawriloff won many international awards for his performances, including a prize at the
Paganini Competition
and the Kulturforderpreis of the City of Nuremberg.
At various times, he has served as
concertmaster
with the
Dresden Philharmonic
, the
Berlin Philharmonic
, the
Berlin Radio Symphony
, the
Frankfurt Opera
, and the
Hamburg Symphony
. As a soloist, Gawriloff has played with many prestigious orchestras around the world, led by such conductors as
Georg Solti
,
Pierre Boulez
,
Christoph von Dohnanyi
,
Eliahu Inbal
,
Michael Gielen
,
Esa-Pekka Salonen
,
Markus Stenz
,
Peter Eotvos
,
Gary Bertini
, and
Alfred Schnittke
. He completed a well received tour of Southern Africa in 1974.
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In 1992, in collaboration with the
Ensemble Modern
, Gawriloff gave the premiere of
Gyorgy Ligeti
's
Violin Concerto
, which the composer had dedicated to him. The American premiere took place the next year with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic
under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Gawriloff performed the concerto another seventy times in the following decade.
In his teaching career, Gawriloff took his first post in Nuremberg, before becoming a professor at the
Musikakademie Detmold
in 1966 and going on to the
Folkwangschule
in Essen in 1969. He succeeded
Max Rostal
as Professor at the
Hochschule fur Musik Koln
in 1982, remaining there until 1996.
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