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Honorary Committee
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and became the most famous pianist of our time. He has spent most of the past 20 years conducting.
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel won a prize at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano in 1949. His repertoire ranges from Bach to Schönberg. A regular guest at the world’s major concert halls in New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Tokyo, he was the first to record the complete piano works of Bach, and he has performed several Beethoven cycles with all the piano sonatas and concertos.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber
Among others, the Argentinian pianist Bruno Leonardo Gelber studied with Marguerite Long in Paris. "You will be my last pupil, but undoubtedly the finest,” declared the grande dame to the then nineteen-year-old, who was studying on a grant from the French government.
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig before starting his professional life as a solo repetiteur and Kapellmeister in Halle. He gained a worldwide reputation as Chief Conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Krzysztof Penderecki
His unmistakable musical language makes the Pole Krzysztof Penderecki one of the most widely performed of contemporary composers.
Wolfgang Rihm
The well-known weekly "Die Zeit” once wrote of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm: "Between late romantic gesture and expressive charge, Rihm listens to voices within himself, where it is not especially comfortable, as he has sometimes remarked himself.”
Mstislav Rostropovich (†)
From his debut as a fifteen-year-old cellist in 1942 the pianist, cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, born in Baku (Azerbaijan), made himself noticed. After the War, he became known to an international audience, who soon acclaimed him as a worthy successor to the great Pablo Casals.
Rodion Shchedrin
Moscow composer and virtuoso pianist Rodion Shchedrin composed his first major works in his early twenties. His wide-ranging oeuvre is characterized by a unique balance between tradition and modernity.