The “International Classical Music Award” goes to the Stockdorf violinist Ingolf Turban.
It is still unclear whether he will be able to accept the award as planned.
Stockdorf
- Great joy at the Rotary Club Gauting-Würmtal: Founding member Prof. Ingolf Turban (56) from Stockdorf has been awarded the “International Classical Music Award 2021”.
The violin virtuoso, who teaches at the Munich University of Music, is to receive the coveted “Grammy of Classical Music” at the gala concert on April 18 in Liechtenstein - “if Corona allows it,” says Turban.
"Everyone who makes music wants to express themselves with it," he emphasizes in an interview with Starnberger Merkur.
That is why the pandemic with closed concert halls is “just as bad for me” as it is for other musicians, but: “The crisis hits freelancers even worse.
I still have my professorship as a handle.
And I'm grateful for that. ”On the other hand, the crisis without concert appearances also offers the“ suddenly cut off ”musicians a“ gift of time ”.
Turban also sees this in his young students, who worked with great motivation to “fill up their inner silos” for future concerts.
As a teacher, Turban stays with the students, especially in the pandemic.
Since the Corona outbreak a year ago at Webasto in his home town of Stockdorf, he has also recorded six albums - including the Beethoven sonatas.
His artistic career began as the youngest concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic.
At the opening of the Philharmonic in 1985 he played under the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache.
“I was 21 years old then,” says Turban, looking back.
"That was an incredibly good time: I'm grateful for that," says the 56-year-old who later started a solo career.
Love and music can be reconciled in his case.
He is married to the pianist and violist Barbara Turban.
"I work a lot as a teacher," emphasizes the professor.
"With my college class I have just recorded the 24 Caprices by Henri Marteau on a double album." This is a first recording with very difficult but beautiful pieces for piano and violin.
The concert violinist has already received the Gautinger Klinge Culture Prize.
Now comes the “International Classical Musical Award”, which he receives for 33 years, during which he has recorded 50 albums.
Due to the corona, it is not yet clear whether he will be able to receive the award on April 18 at a concert in Liechtenstein.
On May 20th, Turban is expected to give a concert in the Kupferhaus Planegg.
The co-founder of the Rotary Club Gauting-Würmtal plays there at the Rotary Benefit with pianist Tomoko Sawallisch for the benefit of social projects in the Würmtal.
“I am grateful that classical music has carried me so far,” says the father of two grown sons.
In an interview with Starnberg Merkur, he likes to emphasize the strength, but also the consolation that music gives: “Especially in times of crisis, we all know that classical music is a very vulnerable plant.
But if we are always allowed to sit on one of its blossoming branches, that's great. "
