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Barbara Lüneburg

About Me

Barbara Lüneburg performing on the violin and the viola has made herself a name as both an interpreter of classical and contemporary music.She won various violin competitions, including the "Prize for the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music", awarded at the 4th International Music Competition for Young Culture in Düsseldorf, which displays her special interest in the new music field. Barbara Lüneburg has premiered numerous solo- and chamber music works throughout her career.In addition to being a member of various chamber music and contemporary music ensembles, she regularly performs as a soloist of classical and new music in Germany and abroad. Barbara Lüneburg records for radio broadcast, CD- and TV- productions and plays at various international music festivals such as Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele (Austria), Gaudeamus Festival, the Munich Biannual and the Tongyeong International Music Festival (Korea).As a recipient of grants and scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Scholarship of the German People she studied a/o. at the Tshaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Zorija Schichmurzaeva and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) with David Takeno.Barbara Lüneburg is a member of Bakin Zub/Netherlands and founding member/artistic director of ensemble Intégrales, the ensemble for unconducted contemporary chamber music (Hamburg/Germany).

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Member Since: 08/04/2007
Band Website: www.barbara-lueneburg.com
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Sounds Like: About Barbara Lüneburg's CD "The Refined Ear" with works by Sciarrino, Stahnke and Haas for viola and violin solo:Tempo Magazine , January 2007, Evan Johnson "These disparate creations are held together by Barbara Lüneburg's forceful approach to her instrument, an aggressive passion that seethes beneath lyrical surfaces, waiting to emerge with teeth bared.""Lüneburg manages [...aus freier Lust... verbunden...] magnificently; each expressive fade or frustrated swell engenders the following pause as a necessary corrective, and the piece is continually saved from disintegration.""[de terrae fine] is one of the best pieces for violin of the new century, and Lüneburg's gripping performance is reason enough to recommend this disc on its own.""The classic here is Sciarrino's 1976 Sei capricci for violin. Lüneburg takes a ferocious approach to these studies in stifled lyricism, emphasizing the disjunction between the physical effort these pieces require and the elusive results. The vicious athleticism of this performance makes palpable a tension in Sciarrino's work that recordings usually fail to capture.""After this evocation of manic imaginary folk music concludes the disc, though, it is the faultless drama of de terrae fine that sticks in the mind, and Lüneburg's biting, passionate performance that makes it stay there."
Record Label: Coviello Classics

My Blog

Opening up a forum for thoughts on collaborations between composers and performers

For my PhD I am working amongst others on the topic of collaborations between composers and performers during the process of composing a new piece. To be able to collect evidence of other collaboratio...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:28:00 GMT

Mexico - Passagen/Pasajes

I have come home from an intensive week of concerts and CD-recordings at the Deutschlandfunk Cologne. The project I was working on with my group ensemble Intégrales was Mexico - Passagen/Pasajes. 7 wo...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMT

Recordings of Bach and Paganini

Yesterday I recorded J.S.Bach partita d-minor and three Paganini caprices. After working a lot in the contemporary music field it was great fun to refresh the beautiful classic masterworks for a solor...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:10:00 GMT

working on Luigi Nono La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura

Barbara Lüneburg, Wouter Snoei > Luigi Nono La lontananza nostalgica utopica futuraWouter and I have spent the last days to find our very own version of Nonos violin solo La lontananza nostalgi...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:37:00 GMT