My Friends and Partners
Violinist Lev Gelbard
and cellist Sergej Rossokha are my principal chamber-music partners.
The picture was taken after our concert at the Festival "Konzertsommer
1998" in Schloss Kröchlendorf near Berlin.
Dr. Lotte Thaler is a music scientist. She is a chief of the
chamber-music department of Südwestrundfunk (SWR) Baden-Baden - Stuttgart.
She is one of quite a few people who can judge about music. She always
has her own opinion, which has become seldom in the last time. It is a
great pleasure to go with her to a concert and then to discuss what we
had heard. Lotte has much humor, she is charming and self-confident. The
picture was made after my recital in the Weinbrennersaal
in Baden-Baden in November 1998.
Mikhail Kollontay
is composer and pianist, my old friend living in Moscow. The photo from
the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
Irina Ossipova
is my very good friend from the conservatory time. I admire her energy
and optimism. She is concert pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Irina has 2 children, spends very much time with her family and since one
year she is the chairperson of the Russian branch of the European
Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). I wonder where she finds time for
everything!
Maria Bergmann was a blessed musician, who worked since 1946
as a "house pianist" at Südwestfunk (South-West Radio Station) in
Baden-Baden. She has recorded innumerable works of known and unknown composers,
with all existing instrumentalists and singers. Incomprehensible! For her,
only the Music does exist. Maria has written about her life in the music
and the music in her life in the book "Ein Leben für Musik und Funk",
which appeared in "Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg", 1998. I have had
a luck to play with Maria Bergmann pieces for two pianos and four
hands.
Alexandre Beider, or Alexander Beider, is my friend from
childhood. He lives now in Paris and works as a lecturer in the domain
of Entreprise Ressource Planning, but his main occupation is Jewish
linguistics and history. He is author of fundamental books on Jewish surnames
from the
Russian Empire, from the
Kingdom of Poland, from Prague
and on Jewish given names. The latter will be his PhD Thesis at Sorbonne,
in addition to his first phys-math PhD title from Moscow. The photo was
taken at my flat in Baden-Baden in 1999.
Evgeny
Kozlovsky is author of novels, short stories, plays and movie scripts.
Untypically for a humanitarian, he has such a good command in computers
that he is famous in Russia as Editor-in-Chief of the Computerra
magazine. evGeniy, as I call him, is also known as a photographer.
We met as Kozlovsky engaged me to play for Annie Girardot who was in the
role of a pianist in his film "Ruth". Since that time, I am the best pianist
in the world for Kozlovsky - you can ask him and he will confirm it. The
picture from Strasbourg, 1998.
Violinist Michael Wieck is one of two or three members of the
Jewish community of Königsberg who survived the Second World War.
He described the fall of the city of his youth, preceded by the genocide
of Jews and followed by the hungerdeath of the main part of the German
population, in his book "Zeugnis zum Untergang Königsbergs". His second
book is a comprehensive art album dedicated to his wife Hildegard who was
a painter of the German expressionist school. Photo from a Monastery near
Heidelberg after our concert in 1997.
Anton Hollich is clarinetist with the SWR Orchestra. The photo
was taken in April 1999 in the Hans-Rosbaud-Studio in Baden-Baden after
our concert.
Alec Weil works with Steinway Japan and he organizes my Japan
tours already for many years. He was the first who materialized in Baden-Baden
from the cyberspace, and we became friends. Although he is American, we
are speaking German with each other. Following my steps, Alec started to
play Scriabin, and he even won the all-Japan competition for amateur pianists
with it. This photo was taken during my 2004 Japan tour.
Photo Annette Zwiebelhofer,
June 2002
Dr. Otmar Zwiebelhofer owns the steel plant "König
Metall" in Gaggenau. It was a lucky decision of his youth. Now he can
play cello as much as he wishes, in a lot of concerts with different chamber-music
partners. I played many times with him and it was always a great fun.
Otmar is active in the Brahms Society, which is the organizer of the Brahms
Festival and caretaker of the Brahms House in Baden-Baden.
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