JAKOB KORANYI, cello
... "playing as if every bar would be the last one, with an enthousiasm which takes the audience's and reviewer's breaths away. But this is the feeling of real art... Musical delight, first rate technique, and total insight, indeed the ovations did not wish to come to an end"... Jan-Olov Nystrom (Hudiksvaksvalls Tidning, July 7th, 2009)
Winner of 2nd Grand Prix and Special Prize for best interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 op.107 at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2009.
Winner of 2nd Grand Prix and special prize for best interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2009, Jakob Koranyi has emerged as one of the most interesting young Scandinavian artists of today. He has been awarded prizes and scholarships from numerous international festivals and foundations, such as the Prix d'Honneur and Ferminich Prize at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland . He has also won all the major Swedish competitions including the prestigious Swedish Soloist Prize in 2006 that launched his debut recording with works by Brahms, Britten, and Ligeti to great critical praise.
Highlights of this season include solo appearances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, concerts at the Verbier Festival, as well as his New York debut at Lincoln Center ’s Alice Tully Hall. As a chamber musician, he has performed with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Leonidas Kavakos, Denis Kozhukhin, Mischa Maisky, Lawrence Power and Julian Rachlin.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree and soloist diploma from the Edsberg Institute of Music with Torleif Thedéen, he earned a post-graduate diploma from The Northern Royal College of Music with Ralph Kirshbaum and studied three years at the Konzertexamen program at the Musikhochschule Köln with Frans Helmerson. He is currently studying at the Soloklasse program in Hannover with Tilmann Wick.
A member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ’s CMS Two program, Mr. Koranyi plays an I. Gratiani cello from Venice 1752.
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Winner of 2nd Grand Prix and Special Prize for best interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2009.
Jakob Koranyi, after having played Bach, Ligeti, Brahms, Debussy in the 1st and 2nd rounds, has been chosen in the last 4 finalists of the Rostropovich Competition 2009 à Paris. He has played Britten Sonata with Denis Kozhukhin last 5th november 2009 at Gaveau, and Shostakovich Concerto No.1 op.107 with the Orchestre de Paris at Pleyel last 7th november.
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Reviews
" Jakob Koranyi is really fantastic..." Elena Rostropovitch.
" An unforgettable concert. A concert where not a minute felt unneeded. Two runaway hours, but they feel like two unusually well spent hours of one's life. This is the sum of the concert with Jakob Koranyi, cello, and Denis Kozhukhin, piano. The two solists, who soon will enter upon larger scenes than the Presbitery of Iggesund's church, lift an arduous and rather unconventional program to a singular musical experience. Debussy, Britten, Ligeti and Brahms, not exactly the usual audience pleasers. Here passion and affection counts in every bar, from the modernist Ligeti to the romantic Brahms. The opening sonatas for cello and piano (Debussy and Britten) are given the same devoted interpretation. You immediately notice the conciseness and the drive from both of the solists. A precise force where nothing of Britten's intellectual eloquence or Debussy's emotionality is lost.... A total absence of triviality characterizes Jakob Koranyi's and Denis Kozhukhin's performances. They play as if every bar would be the last one, with an enthousiasm which takes the audience's and reviewer's breaths away. But this is the feeling of real art... Musical delight, first rate technique, and total insight, indeed the ovations did not wish to come to an end that Tuesday evening. An unforgettable concert."
Jan-Olov Nyström (Hudiksvaksvalls Tidning, July 7 2009)
"After listening to a fantastic concert with Jacob and Denis in Västerås some weeks ago, I got fascinated".
Christer Petersson, Grafisk formgivare
Winner of 2nd Grand Prix and Special Prize for best interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 op.107 at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2009.