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James Ehnes

October 15, 2023

James Ehnes, CM OM FRSC (born January 27, 1976) is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.

James Ehnes
CM OM FRSC
Born (1976-01-27) January 27, 1976 (age 47)
Brandon, Manitoba
Genres
Instrument(s)Violin, Viola
Websitejamesehnes.com

Life and career Edit

Ehnes was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Alan Ehnes,[1] long time trumpet professor at Brandon University (Canada), and Barbara Withey Ehnes, former ballerina with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ruth Page's International Ballet, and Chicago Ballet, and former director of the Brandon School of Dance. Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four and at age nine became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin.[2] He studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and from 1993 to 1997 at The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation.[3]

James Ehnes toured with Jeunesses MusicalesCanada during the 1992-1993 season, when he was only 16 years old.[4]

In October 2005, he was awarded a Doctor of Music degree (honoris causa) from Brandon University and in July 2007 he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2010, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[5]

Ehnes performs on the 1715 "ex-Marsick" Stradivarius.[6] His commercial recordings have won many awards and prizes, including 11 Junos, two Grammies,[7] and two Gramophone Classical Music Awards - 2008 Best Concerto[8] for Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto - 2021 Artist of the Year.[9]

Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in the Instrumentalist category.[10] Ehnes joined Royal Academy of Music as visiting professor of violin in 2017.[11][12]

Ehnes is Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society. He and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, violist Che-Yen Chen, and cellist Edward Arron perform as the Ehnes Quartet.[13]

Ehnes lives in Ellenton, Florida with his wife and two children.

Discography Edit

James Ehnes Edit

Ehnes Quartet Edit

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ "Ehnes, Alan Charles". Brandon Sun. 12 Oct 2019. Retrieved 4 Feb 2020.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ King, Betty Nygaard (13 Dec 2013). "Francis Chaplin". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 Feb 2020.
  3. ^ Hanson, Philip (1 October 1998). "The Boy from Brandon: Canada's Violin Hope". La Scena Musicale. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  4. ^ "BAnQ numérique". numerique.banq.qc.ca (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  5. ^ Cloutier, Annabelle (30 June 2010). "Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada". Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  6. ^ Fishman, Elly (2023-01-17). "The Man Who Fixes the World's Finest Violins". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  7. ^ . Archived from the original on 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2019-02-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2008 - Concerto
  9. ^ Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021 - Artist of the Year
  10. ^ Royal Philharmonic Society Awards - Instrumentalist Winners
  11. ^ Royal Academy of Music - James Ehnes, Visiting Professor of Violin
  12. ^ "James Ehnes joins London's Royal Academy of Music as visiting professor of violin". The Strad. March 16, 2017.
  13. ^ May, Thomas (14 July 2015). . The Strad. Archived from the original on 2015-07-17.
  14. ^ Andrew Clements (2009-10-22). "Paganini: 24 Caprices: James Ehnes/Paganini: 24 Caprices: Thomas Zehetmair". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  15. ^ Fiona Maddocks (2013-01-19). "Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2: Sonatas and Folk Dances – review". The Observer. Retrieved 2015-06-30.

External links Edit

  • Official James Ehnes site
  • Intermusica agency page on James Ehnes
  • interview with James Ehnes - Vancouver Classical Music | Seen and Heard International (2017)
  • James Ehnes in Conversation with Clemency Burton-Hill - Wigmore Hall Podcast (November 2017)
  • James Ehnes on his string quartet and recording late Beethoven - Gramophone Podcast (2022)

October 15, 2023
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James Ehnes CM OM FRSC born January 27 1976 is a Canadian concert violinist and violist James EhnesCM OM FRSCBorn 1976 01 27 January 27 1976 age 47 Brandon ManitobaGenresClassical chamber musicInstrument s Violin ViolaWebsitejamesehnes wbr com Contents 1 Life and career 2 Discography 2 1 James Ehnes 2 2 Ehnes Quartet 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksLife and career EditEhnes was born in Brandon Manitoba the son of Alan Ehnes 1 long time trumpet professor at Brandon University Canada and Barbara Withey Ehnes former ballerina with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Ruth Page s International Ballet and Chicago Ballet and former director of the Brandon School of Dance Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four and at age nine became a protege of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin 2 He studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and from 1993 to 1997 at The Juilliard School winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation 3 James Ehnes toured with Jeunesses MusicalesCanada during the 1992 1993 season when he was only 16 years old 4 In October 2005 he was awarded a Doctor of Music degree honoris causa from Brandon University and in July 2007 he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada In 2010 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada 5 Ehnes performs on the 1715 ex Marsick Stradivarius 6 His commercial recordings have won many awards and prizes including 11 Junos two Grammies 7 and two Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2008 Best Concerto 8 for Edward Elgar s Violin Concerto 2021 Artist of the Year 9 Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in the Instrumentalist category 10 Ehnes joined Royal Academy of Music as visiting professor of violin in 2017 11 12 Ehnes is Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society He and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti violist Che Yen Chen and cellist Edward Arron perform as the Ehnes Quartet 13 Ehnes lives in Ellenton Florida with his wife and two children Discography EditJames Ehnes Edit 1995 Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin 2000 Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1 Violin Sonata No 2 Five Melodies 2000 Maurice Ravel Violin Sonata No 2 Tzigane Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure Claude Debussy Violin Sonata Camille Saint Saens Violin Sonata No 1 2000 Johann Sebastian Bach The Six Sonatas amp Partitas for Solo Violin 2000 French Showpieces Camille Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Havanaise Hector Berlioz Le corsaire Reverie et caprice Ernest Chausson Poeme Claude Debussy Tarantelle styrienne Darius Milhaud Cinema Fantaisie Jules Massenet Meditation from the opera Thais 2001 Max Bruch Violin Concertos Nos 1 amp 3 2002 Bruch Concerto No 2 and Scottish Fantasy 2002 Fritz Kreisler Track 20 Petite Valse Piano Solo James Ehnes 2003 Robert Schumann Piano Quintet Gabriel Faure Piano Quintet No 2 2004 Romantic Pieces 2004 Henryk Wieniawski Pablo de Sarasate 2004 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Op 94 Potpourri for Viola and Orchestra Adagio and Rondo alla Polacca for Violin and Orchestra Violin Concerto in G major 2004 Erno Dohnanyi Violin Concerto No 2 Op 43 2004 Luigi Dallapiccola Tartiniana Divertimento for Violin and Orchestra 2005 John Adams Road Movies for violin and piano Hallelujah Junction for two pianos Piano Andrew Russo James Ehnes 2005 Antonin Dvorak Concertos 2005 Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Vol 1 2006 Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Vol 2 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concertos 1 5 2006 Samuel Barber Erich Wolfgang Korngold William Walton Violin Concertos 50th Annual Grammy Awards Best Instrumental Soloist s Performance with orchestra 2007 Paul Schoenfield Four Souvenirs for violin and piano Cafe Music for piano trio 2007 Edward Elgar Violin Concerto 2008 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Best Concerto 2008 Homage 2009 Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin 14 2010 Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Octet 2011 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 1 Violin Concerto No 2 Viola Concerto 2011 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Serenade melancolique Valse Scherzo Souvenir d un lieu cher I Meditation II Scherzo III Melodie 2012 Bartok Works for Violin and Piano Vol 1 Rhapsody Folk Dances No 1 Rhapsody Folk Dances No 2 Violin Sonata No 1 Violin Sonata No 2 Andante 2012 Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty 2013 Bartok Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2 Sonata for Solo Violin Violin Sonata in E minor Romanian Folk Dances Hungarian Folksongs Hungarian Folk Tunes 15 2013 Britten and Shostakovich violin concertos 2013 Prokofiev Complete Works for Violin Violin Concerto No 1 Violin Concerto No 2 Violin Sonata No 1 Violin Sonata No 2 Sonata for Two Violins Sonata for Solo Violin Five Melodies 2013 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake 2014 Khachaturian amp Shostakovich Violin Concerto amp String Quartet no 7 amp 8 2014 Bartok Works for Violin and Piano Vol 3 Contrasts for Violin Clarinet and Piano Sonatina Transcription for Violin and Piano 44 Duos for Two Violins 2014 American Chamber Music Aaron Copland Charles Ives Leonard Bernstein Elliott Carter Samuel Barber 2015 Hector Berlioz Reverie et Caprice Op 8 violin Harold en Italie Op 16 viola 2015 Cesar Franck and Richard Strauss Violin Sonatas 2015 Leos Janacek The Wandering of a Little Soul Violin Concerto 2015 Aaron Jay Kernis 2 Movements with Bells 2015 The Essential James Ehnes containing works by Bach Kreisler Prokofiev Dvorak Saint Saens and Berlioz 2016 Claude Debussy Edward Elgar and Ottorino Respighi Violin Sonatas 2017 Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No 9 Violin Sonata No 6 2017 Beethoven Violin Concerto Romance no 1 Op 40 Romance no 2 Op 50 Franz Schubert Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings D 438 2017 Bartok Rhapsody Folk Dances No 1 Rhapsody Folk Dances No 2 Violin and Orchestra 2018 William Walton Viola Concerto 2018 Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 2018 James Newton Howard Violin Concerto Aaron Jay Kernis Concerto for Violin Bramwell Tovey Stream of Limelight 61st Annual Grammy Awards Best Classical Instrumental Solo 2019 Richard Strauss Violin Concerto 2019 James Newton Howard A Hidden Life Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2019 Beethoven Op 12 Violin Sonata No 1 Violin Sonata No 2 Violin Sonata No 3 Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro 2020 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 4 Violin Sonata No 5 Violin Sonata No 8 Six German Dances Rondo in G Major 2020 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 7 Violin Sonata No 10 2020 Bach amp Brahms Reimagined Johannes Brahms Horn Trio Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 Brandenburg Concerto No 5 2021 Eugene Ysaye Six Sonatas for solo violin 2021 Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin 2022 Alban Berg Violin Concerto 2023 Carl Nielsen Violin Concerto 2023 Karol Szymanowski Myths George Frideric Handel Violin sonata in D major HWV 371 James Newton Howard 133 At Least Tchaikovsky Twelve Pieces Op 40 6 Chanson sans paroles Josef Suk 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano Op 17 4 Burleska Samuel Dushkin Sicilienne Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Manuel Ponce Estrellita Percy Grainger Molly on the ShoreEhnes Quartet Edit 2016 Franz Schubert String Quartet No 14 in D Minor D 810 Jean Sibelius String Quartet 2021 Beethoven String Quartet No 13 Grosse Fuge 2021 Beethoven String Quartet No 12 String Quartet No 14 2021 Beethoven String Quartet No 10 String Quartet No 11 2022 Beethoven String Quartet No 15 String Quartet No 16See also EditList of Canadian musicians List of contemporary classical violinistsReferences Edit Ehnes Alan Charles Brandon Sun 12 Oct 2019 Retrieved 4 Feb 2020 permanent dead link King Betty Nygaard 13 Dec 2013 Francis Chaplin Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved 4 Feb 2020 Hanson Philip 1 October 1998 The Boy from Brandon Canada s Violin Hope La Scena Musicale Retrieved 17 February 2012 BAnQ numerique numerique banq qc ca in French Retrieved 2021 06 11 Cloutier Annabelle 30 June 2010 Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada Governor General of Canada Retrieved 22 April 2014 Fishman Elly 2023 01 17 The Man Who Fixes the World s Finest Violins Chicago Magazine Retrieved 2023 01 30 Archived copy Archived from the original on 2021 10 03 Retrieved 2019 02 12 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2008 Concerto Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021 Artist of the Year Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Instrumentalist Winners Royal Academy of Music James Ehnes Visiting Professor of Violin James Ehnes joins London s Royal Academy of Music as visiting professor of violin The Strad March 16 2017 May Thomas 14 July 2015 Star violinist James Ehnes on his other life as a chamber musician The Strad Archived from the original on 2015 07 17 Andrew Clements 2009 10 22 Paganini 24 Caprices James Ehnes Paganini 24 Caprices Thomas Zehetmair The Guardian Retrieved 2015 06 30 Fiona Maddocks 2013 01 19 Bartok Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2 Sonatas and Folk Dances review The Observer Retrieved 2015 06 30 External links EditOfficial James Ehnes site Intermusica agency page on James Ehnes interview with James Ehnes Vancouver Classical Music Seen and Heard International 2017 James Ehnes in Conversation with Clemency Burton Hill Wigmore Hall Podcast November 2017 James Ehnes on his string quartet and recording late Beethoven Gramophone Podcast 2022 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Ehnes amp oldid 1168258840, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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