Gabriela Demeterová歌手资料

外文名 : Gabriela Demeterová

别名 : 加布丽拉

国籍 : 捷克

生日 : 1971-05-17

职业 : 小提琴与中提琴演奏家

Since 1980, Gabriela has entered many national as well as international competitions and was awarded many prizes, among others in The Jaroslav Kocian International Violin Competition in Czech Republic. In 1987, she participated in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Great Britain becoming the very first Czech finalist. In 1993, she won in this competition all major prizes, including The Absolute Winner title, the Laureate title, The All Stages First Prize, The Audience Prize and a special prize for The Best Performance of Solo J. S. Bach’s Composition as the first All Prize Winner in the history of this competition. Gabriela also gained the 2nd prize, the Laureate title and The Prize of the Capital Town of Prague in the Prague Spring Violin Competition in 1992. In years 1992-1993 Gabriela was twice awarded the Premier Prix of The Czech Musical Foundation for her achievements and presentation of Czech culture on international competition stages. In 1996 Gabriela was nominated for the Talent of the Year Award by the Harmonie Magazine. Her videoclips, the first in classical music field, were nominated andawarded several times the prize “Pecka roku” by AČRA association. In June 2015, she received Grand Prix Award by The International Musical Festival Letohrad in Czech Republic for The Best Festival Performance in 2014.

For many years, has Gabriela been involved in baroque music studies and performances; she plays a modern instrument using elements of period performing practice including a baroque bow. Since 1998, she has been using baroque tuning (A=415Hz), which is almost a halftone lower than that used today and has started to play a baroque violin. The result of the lower tuning is a better sound of the particular keys and their discord, a better possibility of work with upper partials, and a better tone-colour.

In 2001, Gabriela started to play the viola. She has become one of the few musicians who possesses the virtuoso technique on both instruments – the violin and the viola. She has recorded several CDs for Supraphon Records with Carl Stamitz – Violin and Viola Concertos and Duos. Recording both instruments, using a playback recording technique.

Gabriela gives concerts all over the World. In Europe, the USA, South America and Japan. She collaborates with notable ensembles and conductors from all over the world. Among her successes include Antonin Dvorak’s Violin Concerto conducted by Libor Pesek in Prague’s Rudolfinum, which brought her an exclusive contract with Supraphon Records, and her concerts with conductor Paavo Jarvi and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra preforming Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto N.1 and the European Premier of Erkki Sven-Tuur’s Violin Concerto. Interesting was her debut in Clowes Hall in Indianapolis, the USA. She performed with one of the best-known chamber ensembles in the USA, The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Kirk Trevor, the principal director. Again she appeared in the USA in Columbia, the capital of Missouri, at the prestigious Summer Music Festival. And many times in Arizona. In September 2004, Gabriela performed with huge success several performances of Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in Mexico City with The Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM conducted by the Chief Conductor Maestro Zuohuang Chen. The concerts were broadcast live across Latin America. In March 2005, she gave several highlyregarded concerts with Maestro Tadaaki Otaka and The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra in Japan. With her own ensemble Collegium of Gabriela Demeterova, she regularly takes a Christmas concert tour in Japan. Gabriela collaborates with contemporary composers. The latest collaboration is with Czech born composer and conductor Krystof Marek, who composed exclusively for Gabriela the Violin Concerto “Key to the Gardens”. Another of Krystof’s Violin Concerto for Gabriela will be premiered in 2016. Gabriela has been invited many times as a guest on crossover projects. She has been asked to appear as a special guest with popular Czech rock bands and singers as Olympic, Dan Barta, “Hundred Animals”, Krystof and recently with singer Noid, who invited Gabriela to be a special guest on his solo CD. Gabriela and Noid recorded together tango “Roxanne” by Sting from his musical Moulin Rouge, arranged by Krystof Marek. For more details about Gabriela’s concert projects visit.

Gabriela started to play the violin at the age of three and gave her first public performance at the age of five. Thanks to her very profound classical music background, including her grandfather violinist Hynek Wolf who studied chamber music with composer Leos Janacek and premiered his famous Violin Sonata in Brno Conservatory, in Gabriela’s genes circulates the best of the famous Czech Classical Music tradition of Antonin Dvorak, Bedrich Smetana, Josef Suk and most particularly Leos Janacek, who’s clear vision of an interpretation of his music and his Violin Sonata has been passed on to Gabriela personally by her grandfather. Gabriela carries that precious Bohemian – European musical heritage and her performances and interpretations of world known and unknown violin and viola repertoire are therefore unique and very special in today’s world of uniform performers. Gabriela studied at the Prague Conservatory and at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) under Prof. Nora Grumlikova. During her studies, she regularly took part in Master Classes all over the world with such renowned professors and violin players as Catherine Macintosh, John Holloway, Dora Schwarzberg, Joseph Gingold, Uzi Wiezel, Helmuth Rilling and many others. Very important for Gabriela’s artistic growth as a soloist were her personal consultations with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, Josef Suk and pianist Jan Panenka, who she was honoured to perform with. In 2000, Gabriela completed her two-year post-graduate Master Class Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, where she studied under Marta Libalova. The specific rules of period performing practice she consulted with specialists in Holland.