Live violin masterclass with Tobias Steymans | RJ Online Music Academy - Masterclass #11

Masterclass of the Riga Jurmala Online Music Academy – live violin by the principal concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Tobias Steymans.

Repertoire:
J.S. Bach - Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001

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Tobias Steymans began playing the violin at the age of six, and by the time he was twelve, he was already a preparatory student at the Music Academy in Cologne.

He has been invited to several festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and others. He has collaborated with musicians from a number of differed ensembles, such as the Juilliard String Quartet, the Vermeer String Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet.

Violinist has also taken part in a number of television presentations and performed as a soloist on the stages of many prestigious concert halls, such as Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Beethovenhalle Bonn and many more. Tobias Steymans was appointed principal concertmaster of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in 2009.

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Andrey Egorov is Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipient (2019). Born in 1998 in Riga, Latvia, began studying the violin at age 7. He entered Jāzeps Mediņš Riga 1st Music School in 2006 studying with Dagmāra Ķezbere. From 2013 to 2018 he studied at Emīls Darziņš Secondary Music School under Nelli Sarkisyan. Since 2018 he is studying at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music under Terēze Zīberte-Ijaba and Georg Sarkisyan.

Andrey is a laureate of numerous awards and prizes such as I prize at International A. Dombroskis Competition in 2017, I prize at National Latvian Competition in 2018 and in 2014, I prize at 3rd International Young Musicians Competition “Antonio Salieri” in Italy, Legnago in 2012, III prize at International Competition for professor’s Victor Radovich remembrance in 2010 and I prize at International Competition for Young Violinists „Bravo!” in Belgium in 2010. He has also participated in festivals and competitions as a chamber musician, for example, at International Festival ‘’In Corpore’’ in Tallinn, Estonia.

Andrey regularly performs with different orchestras, for example, with Emīls Dārziņš Music School orchestra (as a concertmaster) at the Great Guild Hall in Riga and in Malta, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Concertante.

He also regularly performs as a soloist and had his solo concert in 2018 in Velikiye Luki, Russia, as well as in Barocksaal in Rostock, Germany and he has also performed as a soloist with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in 2017. In 2018 he took part in project ‘’Side by side’’ and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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