Elizabeth Iona Brown ( English Elizabeth Iona Brown ; January 7, 1941 , Salisbury ( England ) - June 5, 2004 ) - British violinist ka and conductor .
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Biography
The daughter of an organist and violinist; All four children in the family became professional musicians (sister - violist, brothers - pianist and trumpet player).
She studied in London with Hugh Maguire, then in Brussels with Carlo van Neste and in Rome with Remi Principe ; she also took private lessons from Henrik Schering .
In 1963 - 1966 she played in the Philharmonia orchestra.
In 1964 - 1980 in the chamber orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin in the fields , first as a violinist, and since 1974 also as a second conductor; In the future, she also constantly performed with the orchestra as a guest conductor.
In the 1960s she also played as part of the Cremona Quartet.
In 1981–2000 , she shared the leadership of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Terje Tönnesen , and in 1987–1992 simultaneously led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra .
In 1998, due to progressive arthritis, Brown ended her instrumentalist career by performing Ralph Vaughan-Williams’s “Soaring Lark” composition by part of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the last years of her life she led the Symphony Orchestra of Southern Jutland . Among other things, Brown was famous for the brilliant choice of concert dresses.
Among the many entries is Brown -
" Seasons " Vivaldi (twice)
Mozart's Concert Symphony (three times, with different viola players),
all Mozart violin concertos,
Bartok's second concert (with Philharmonia orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle ).
As conductor Brown recorded, in particular, with the Academy of St. Martin in the fields, four Mozart concertos for horn and orchestra, the part of the horn was played by her brother Timothy Brown.
Neville Marriner , Brown’s many-year-old supervisor at St. Martin’s Academy in the fields, wrote about her after her death from cancer:
The whole essence of the Academy's musical style was embodied in Aion.
As a violinist, she combined the romantic movement with warmth and passion, in the early repertoire she showed sophisticated elegance, maintaining the 18th century performing conventions and not drying music.
She was a source of inspiration for several generations of musicians of the orchestra, although the height of its technical and aesthetic demands has broken several ambitious natures, and personal charm with a few hearts.
Hating planes, she traveled the musical world with all the courage; paying tribute to guilt, strictly preserved dignity and figure; as an ally and partner to her, if she lacked anything, then only drops of inaction.
She was a genuine star. [4]
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Sources
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 129255947 // Common Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Anne Inglis . Obituary for Iona Brown , The Guardian (10 June 2004). The appeal date is August 20, 2008.