Michael Kugel
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Michael Kugel (Ukrainian: Михайло Бенедиктович Кугель; born December 5, 1946) is a Ukrainian viola player and composer.
Education
[edit]Born in Kharkiv, USSR, he attended various post-secondary music programs.
Career
[edit]From 1975 to 1996, Michael Kugel was an academic and musician.
Kugel has been a jury member for competitions including:
- V Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, Workshop and World Viola Congress, 1994
- First International Viola Competition in Vienna, 1998[1]
- Primrose Memorial Viola Competition, 1999[2]
- IX Lionel Tertis International Viola competition and Workshop, 2006[3]
Awards
[edit]The 1975 International Viola Competition joint winners were Zoltan Toth and Kugel.[4]
Books
[edit]- The history of an era. An interpretation of two works for viola (2002, ISBN 978-2-87304-001-7)
Selected compositions
[edit]Kugel's compositions are published by Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur.
- Il Carnevale di Venezia for Viola and Piano (2001)
- Classical Preludes for Viola and Piano (1999)
- Sonata-Poem for Viola Solo (1987)
- Suite in Memoriam Shostakovich for Viola and Piano (1988)
Discography
[edit]He made them in the former Soviet Union but most of those records are unavailable.
His recent recordings include:
- In Memoriam Shostakovich. Michael Kugel (viola), Vesna Podrug (piano), 1998, ASIN B000068VGR
- The recorded viola. Volume IV. Pearl GEMS 0039, PhonCD R2448 reva v.4, 1998
- Mark Kopytman, Beyond all this... The Israel Camerata, Avner Biron (conductor), Michael Kugel (viola), 1999, IMI-CD-1929-03
- Glinka, Paganini, Bizet, Waxman. Michael Kugel (viola) Asir Rozenberg (piano), 1999
- The greatest Russian violists (MELODIA)-2009.
- Michael Kugel - Boris Berezovsky (MELODIA - 2014)
References
[edit]- ↑ First International viola competition in Vienna, 1998
- ↑ Primrose Memorial Viola Competition, 1999
- ↑ "IX Lionel Tertis International Viola competition and Workshop, 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ↑ "Playing the Soviet carrier", Tully Potter, The Strad, June 1995
External links
[edit]- Official website of Michael Kugel
- Michael Kugel at New Consonant Music
- Budapest Philharmonic, Hall of fame
- First International Viola Competition in Vienna
- New Consonant Music, Composers
- A & E Vienna Limited, Michael Kugel bio
- University of Cincinnati, Bios
- Orford Arts Centre, Biographies, teachers/interpreters
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Categories:
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Russian classical violists
- Russian classical viola d'amore players
- Russian viola d'amore players
- Ukrainian classical violists
- Ukrainian classical viola d'amore players
- Ukrainian viola d'amore players
- Russian male composers
- Academic staff of the Maastricht Academy of Music
- Musicians from Kharkiv
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni
- Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
- Viola d'amore players