BARNABAS KELEMEN
Session 1 / Session 2
Teaching Languages English / German / Hungarian
Barnabas Kelemen has established himself as one of the leading violinist and the most versatile musician of his generation. He is a dedicated chamber musician both as a violinist and violist, string quartet-musician and conductor, giving master classes worldwide. Since 2005 he is the professor of violin at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary. And he is also the professor of violin at the University for Music and Dance Cologne, Germany.
He appears regularly as a concerto soloist with symphonic orchestras of London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, Tokyo, Budapest, Prague, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur and at may of the world's major musical venues as the New York's Carneige Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Suntory Hall of Tokyo or the Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.
Besides performing as a soloist, more and more times, he appears as a conductor, featuring the seasons he conducts the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Amsterdam's Concertgebouw amongst others.
He is a regular guest of prestigious festivals including the Kaposvar International Chamber Music Festival, the festivals of Jerusalem, Schleswig Holstein, Prussia Cove, Salzburg, Prague, Menton, Lockenhaus, Ittlingen, Kissingen, Moritzburg, Delft, the MIDEM in Cannes or the Festival of Cheltenham.
He collaborated with musicians such as Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Michael Stern, Marek Janowski, Zoltan Kocsis, Ivan Fischer, Dezso Ranki, Peter Eotvos, Miklos Perenyi, Steven Isserlis and Katalin Kokas. He performed the Hungarian premieres of the Ligeti and Schnittke Violin Concertos and gave the Hungarian premiere of Gubajdulina's and world premiere of Kurtag's violin pieces.
In the New Series of Bartok's CD-recording released by Hungaroton, Barnabas Kelemen records all the solo violin works of Bartok for violin with Zoltan Kocsis. Barnabas Kelemen recorded all together 12 solo albums and one double DVD-recording released by Hungaroton, BMC and Naxos records, many of which was acknowledged with prestigious international awards such as the Diapason d'Or Prize and the Grand Prix du Disque Prize by the International Liszt Society.
Barnabas Kelemen has won prizes at many international competitions including the Gold Medal at 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the 3rd Prize at 2001 Queen Elisabeth Comptition and 1st Prize at 1999 Mozart Competition in Salzburg.
He performs on 1742 'Ex-Kovacs Denes' Guarneri del Gesu violin given to him by the Hungarian Government.
Barnabas Kelemen has won prizes at many international competitions including the Gold Medal at 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the 3rd Prize at 2001 Queen Elisabeth Comptition and 1st Prize at 1999 Mozart Competition in Salzburg.
He performs on 1742 'Ex-Kovacs Denes' Guarneri del Gesu violin given to him by the Hungarian Government.
VIOLA : HANNA LEE
Session 1
Session 1
Teaching Languages Korean / English
Violist Hanna Lee is rapidly gaining renown as one of the most promising young violists of her generation. She finished her studies at the Kronberg Academy in Germany with Nobuko Imai. She earned her Master's degree at the New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Kim Kashkashian and was selected to perform the Walton Viola Concerto with the Conservatory Orchestra as a winner of the 2009 Concerto Competition. She graduated from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia studying under Roberto Diaz.
Ms. Lee has performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician. She performed with Junge Philharmonie Frankfurt Rhein Main and Korean Symphony Orchestra. She was invited to gave recitals at Kumho Art Hall and Kronberg Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany. She performed at some of the world's most acclaimed chamber music festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Festival and the Verbier Festival where she worked with some of the most renowned musicians including Richard Goode, Arnold Steinhardt, Peter Wiley, Colin Carr and Charles Neidich. In 2011, she joined the Borromeo Quartet in a performance of the Schoenberg Sextet. As Violist of the Kallaci Srtring Quartet, she has performed widely in Asia, the quartet having been invited to perform in the Kumho Art Hall in Soeul and selected as one of only eleven quartets to compete in the Wigmore Hall Londong International Atring Quartet Competition in 2012.
Ms. Lee has been recognized as a top prize winner in Korea's Haydn Competition, the Midland-Odessa Symphony's National Young Artist Competition and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's Hellam Young Artist's Competition and Osaka International Competition.
She is a member of Kumho Asiana Soloists, Kallaci String Quartet and Plympus Ensemble.
She is on faculty at the School for the Gifted in Arts, Korea National University of Arts.
MIN YEN CHIEN
Session 1 / Session 2
Teaching Languages English / Chinese
簡名彥/小提琴
簡名彥教授為我國第一位活躍於國際舞台的近代台灣小提琴演奏家，早在60年代美國茱莉亞四重奏訪台期間其中已故中提琴家Raphael Hillyer便已挖掘出簡名彥之非凡潛力。透過Dr. & Mrs. Francis F. Giannini之協助與New Jersey扶輪社獎學金於1975年以極為優異的成績畢業於紐約茱麗亞音樂學院後，次年立即以驚人的效率獲該音樂院之小提琴演奏碩士學位，其演奏風範在當時已備受紐約地區樂界推崇，而期間與其受邀合作過之當今國際級的演奏家更是不計其數，如: David Finckle、Daniel Phillips、Mark Kaplan、姜東錫(Dong－Suk Kang)、張萬鈞(Lynn Chang）、吳涵等，實為台灣小提琴演奏家向國際領域開拓之先驅。在美國期間曾先後師事及應邀擔任過二十世紀美國一代小提琴巨擘葛拉米安（Ivan Galamian）及馬可夫（Albert Markov）兩位教授之教學助理多年，室內樂則師承於茱莉亞四重奏(Juilliard String Quartet)、Lenox String Quartet、Felix Galimier、Lilian Fuchs、William Lincer、Josef Gingold。由於出生醫生世家，一直不能忘情醫學，更於1983年進入美國阿肯色大學醫學院，完成基礎醫學課程而一嘗夙願。1986年簡名彥應當時國立藝術學院(為現今國立台北藝術大學之前身)教務長馬水龍之力邀返台任教，參與新生代小提琴手的培育工作重責，近年來許多名揚國際亦或各大交響樂團的首席及提琴演奏家們均深受其影響而雨露均霑。
近年來簡名彥教授常以醫學的角度，深入探討小提琴演奏時骨骼肌肉系統之間的相互關係，並致力於肌肉在錯誤使用（misuse）上與過度使用（overuse）後造成傷害的研究，曾於1994年2月，應邀在「中華民國人因工程學會」所舉行的以『安全與健康』為主題的國際醫學年會暨研討會（The 1994 International Conference on Ergonomics and Health）中以「小提琴肩之探討」為題發表之專題演講，其中說明了經由肌動學（Kinesiology）和運動醫學(Sports Medicine）的角度中領悟到如何破解小提琴演奏與練習上經常發生的盲點，更釐清了一般提琴表演工作者平時所執著的傳統錯誤觀念－『吃的苦中苦，方為人上人』（No pain，No gain！）。
負笈國外二十年之後返台，仍汲汲不忘為尋求新的突破而努力，並向指揮家及小提琴家林克昌教授及法國小提琴泰斗吉拉．普雷(Gerard Poulet)教授登門求教。2015年10月，簡名彥教授完成了「從尼古拉‧帕格尼尼二十四首《綺想曲》作品一，探討指法與左大拇指之運用」一書及樂譜版本之校訂，其所堅持之「人性化演奏法」，讓愛樂者們見證到一位演奏家是如何延長與拓展演奏之生命與範疇。
Min Yen Chien is acclaimed as one of the foremost musicians of our time, hails from the first generation of international Taiwanese violinists. He was born on 2 August, 1953 into a family of medical and musical eminence in Nantou, Taiwan.
Min Yen had his first violin lesson at age seven. Just after a year, at age eight, he won the first prize in the National Violin Competition for children in Taiwan. It was providential for Min Yen that the late Raphael Hillyer was in the audience. Hillyer who was touring Taiwan at that time, was then a violist with the Juilliard String Quartet. After that performance, Min Yen became a protégé of Hillyer. At age ten, Min Yen went on to win the first prize in the First National Violin Competition sponsored by the Rotary Club of Taiwan.
In 1967, with the encouragement and sponsorship of Hillyer, Min Yen arrived in the United States. During that summer, he won first prize in the Violin Concerto Competition at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, and performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with its orchestra, receiving a standing ovation for his performance.
From 1967-68, Min Yen studied with Marc Gottlieb and Ruggiero Ricci at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Under the recommendation of Ricci, Min Yen entered the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School in 1968 as a full scholarship student under the direction of Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. He also studied chamber music with Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, William Lincer, Lillian Fuchs and the Juilliard & Lennox String Quartets. In the summer of 1977, he studied chamber music with Ma Si-Hon and Josef Gingold at the Blossom Music Festival in Kent, Ohio. With the sponsorship of Dr. & Mrs. Francis F. Giannini and a scholarship funded by the Rotary Club of New Jersey, Min Yen received his Bachelor's (1975) and Master's (1976) in Music from Juilliard. He furthered his studies with Albert Markov at the Mannes College, and took private lessons in Taiwan with Kek-Jiang Lim, a student of Georges Enesco, the former Music Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. From 2010-2014, Min Yen was in Japan studying with renowned French violinist, Gerard Poulet.
Min Yen’s great interest in medicine and science directed him to The College of Medicine, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, where he was accepted as a medical student. From 1982 - 86, he studied medicine with the same passion he had for his musical pursuits. Recently, Min Yen has begun exploring the relationship between the violin and the muscular-skeletal system; and is committed to studying injury prevention of muscle overuse or misuse.
Adding to his achievements, Min Yen has also just completed a book on "An Investigative Analysis of Fingerings and Thumb Positions on Paganini's 24 Caprices Op. 1." and his edition of the “Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin Solo, Op. I".
In August 1986, Min Yen was invited by the late Taiwanese composer Shui-Long Ma to teach at the National Institute of the Arts, renamed the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) in 2001.
Min Yen has trained many young and talented violin students and helped them secure a foothold on the ladder of success in their future careers. Many of his former students hold important positions such as concert masters, members of professional orchestras or teaching posts in established musical institutions.
In 1991, Min Yen’s Alice Tully Hall debut in New York City with pianist Wendy Fang Chen enjoyed a sold-out capacity. In February 1994 he was invited by the Society for Human Engineering Factors of Taiwan to be a guest lecturer in their annual International Conference on Ergonomics & Health; he delivered his lecture on the topic, "The Violinist's Shoulder”.
In May 2016, Min Yen returned to Alice Tully Hall to give a world premiere of a violin concerto composed by Justine F. Chen, and performed with the New York-based Youth Orchestra, CYCNY.
Min Yen regularly performs in concerts as a soloist and with chamber music groups in TNUA and the National Concert Hall in Taipei; he has played twice by invitation, in the Presidential Palace Concert.
