Musical prodigy Elin Kolev

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Musical prodigy Elin Kolev

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We present Bulgarian musical prodigy violin player Elin Kolev. He has won the Best Young Talent Award Winner and Pablo de Sarasate Award at the IBLA Grand Prize 2008 in Italy. We start with a performance of the young talent called The Beetle’s Flight.

Elin is of Bulgarian origin. Both his parents are violin players. Having received their education in Bulgaria they immigrated to Zwickau, Germany, where both their children were born. At 8 only Elin made his debut with an orchestra on a big stage. At the age of 10 he won awards and at the age of 12 he went on his first tour to the USA, where he gave concerts in 4 states. Here is now Elin’s father Marian Kolev:
“We have lived in Germany for 22 years. My wife works with a philharmonic orchestra and I work at the theatre of Zwickau. Elin first started playing the piano. He then tried playing a small guitar and ukulele, which is a Hawaiian string instrument. Eventually, he chose the violin. In 2009 the Saxon TV made a 30-minute film dedicated to him. At the same time a lot of German media got interested in Elin on the occasion of his tour to the USA and the concert he gave at Carnegie Hall in New York. At the time he played in 4 states making 6 concerts within 10 days. It was very stressful”, Mr Kolev says for Radio Bulgaria.
Listen now to Elin Kolev and Hungarian Dance №5 from Brahms.

Elin was invited to the USA after he won the big Pablo de Sarasate Award in 2008 when he was only 11. Earlier, he had already played with orchestras on numerous occasions, having won the young talent award in Saxony, as well as first prize at the international Eugene Ysaye Competition in Austria.
“I am happiest when I play in front of an audience and when I can feel that it is ecstatic, Elin explains. Then I forget about all the hardship which is part of my preparation and feel only enjoyment from the music. Among the more significant events in which I have taken part was the concert commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, which took place last year. I played Brahms’ Violin Concerto. In fact, the year was filled with cultural events. World-famous musicians arrived to Zwickau, including Daniel Barenboim, who conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. I was really honoured to take part in the event.

We bring you now a fragment from Pablo de Saraste’s Gypsy Songs. You will hear a recording of a 2009 concert.

“At first I started taking classes at the conservatory of Zwickau”, Elin goes on to say. “When I was 10 years old I was admitted to the class of Prof. Carolin Widmann at the Leipzig conservatory. For two years I have been going to the Karlsruhe University where I study at the class of Prof. Josef Rissin. I am also going to the music school at Zwickau where I study piano and music theory”, Elin says.

In a few months a movie about the Holocaust will appear in Germany. In it Bulgarian Elin Kolev plays a Jewish child who plays the violin. Hear are the details:

“I am very happy that I had the chance to play in this movie and be among Germany’s most popular actors. I am particularly happy that they gave me credit to record the whole music in the movie. For a few years I have been playing a Lorenzo Carcassi violin that was made in 1749. It was given to me by the Albert-Eckstein Foundation. I have played with a few German orchestras. Two years ago I met Bulgarian conductor Pavel Balev, who conducts the philharmonic orchestra in Baden-Baden. I was at the town to take part in a master’s course. Maestro Balev invited me to play with his orchestra. We did some really wonderful concerts”, Elin Kolev says in conclusion.

On 19 March Elin gave his fist indivifual concert. He performed pieces by Maurice Ravel, Cesar Franc and Antonio Vivaldi. Listen now to Meditation by Jules Massenet.

English version: Vyara Popova

По публикацията работи: Albena Bezovska

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