Caspar René Hirschfeld, violin

Biography

C. René Hirschfeld was born in 1965 in Wernigerode and took his first violin lessons at the age of 5.

1982-87 he studied at the music academy ”Carl-Maria von Weber” Dresden, main topics: composition (with U. Zimmermann and W. Krätzschmar) and violin (with Chr. Redder), subsidiaries: conducting and piano. 

1987-89 he continued his studies as a „Master‘s Pupil“.

Simultaneously he studied dance and dance theory in the course of which he got initial artistic stimulations by Gret Palucca, Kazuo Ohno, Patricio Bunster and Thomas Hartmann.

Hirschfeld has won several national and international awards and scholarships such as Weber-Prize 1984, Eisler-Prize 1986, Mendelssohn-Scholarship 1988/89, Göttingen award for guitar composition 2000.

He was tutor at the music academies Dresden and Berlin (1987-94), the ACMP Foundation New York 

and gives Workshops  for the interpretation of contemporary music.

1985-95 Hirschfeld worked as a dancer too, performing on local theatres, music- and theatre festivals.

In the 90th he also worked as a concert pianist and accompanist. 

1994/95 he lived and worked in Sweden, since then he lives as a freelance composer and musician in Berlin.

As a violinist he is a sought after chamber musician and soloist. The key areas of his repertoire are baroque music and music of the 20th/21st century. 

Hirschfeld has written opera, ballet, symphonic works, chamber music, songs, solo pieces and music for choir. His music has performed amongst other at the  Salzburg Festival, Dresdner Musikfestspielen, Dresdner Tagen für zeitgenössische Musik, Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Konzerthaus Berlin, Cathedral of Magdeburg, International Music Academie Rheinsberg, deSingel Antwerpen, Musée d‘Art de Paris, Athaeneum Bukarest, Rustavelli-Theatre Tiblissi, Stora Teatern Göteborg, Opera House Leipzig, Opera House Bonn, in Basel, Bregenz, Athen, Bangkok, Daegu, Odessa, Katmandu and broadcasted on many European radio stations such as  SFB, ORF, Deutschlandradio, Schweizer Rundfunk, Radio Netherlands and more.

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