Vladimir_Ashkenazy

Announcements

EMINENT LEADERS LECTURE SERIES

Bridges Dialogues
“Towards a Culture of Peace”

NOBEL LAUREATES & DISTINGUISH SPEAKERS

WEDNESDAY: January 6, 2010

Professor David J. Gross, 2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California in Santa Barbara
Topic: The future of science and human development

Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: January 20, 2010

Prof. Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2007 "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."

Topic: Why global markets have failed to reduce inequality?
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: January 27, 2010

Oliver Stone is an American film director, screenwriter and producer whose work, frequently focusing on contemporary political and cultural issues.
Topic: Film-making and peace-building
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: February 3, 2010

Prof. Torsten N. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1981 in recognition of his pioneering work on the neural basis of visual perception.

Topic: Science for peace
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

MONDAY: March 9, 2010

TUESDAY: March 9, 2010
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Classical Pianist, London

Title: Concert for a Culture of Peace

Venue: Chaktomuk Theater at 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: April 7, 2010

Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 together with Prof. Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Topic: Future challenges in HIV/AIDS prevention and therapy
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: April 21, 2010

H.E. Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta was awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the President of Timor-Leste and a Patron of the International Peace Foundation.
Topic: Building a culture of peace and development in a globalized world
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

Biography:

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy is one of the most renowned pianists and conductors of our times. Formerly Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (1998 to 2003) and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (2004 to 2007), he will take up the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009. Alongside these positions, Mr. Ashkenazy continues his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000.

With this orchestra he has developed landmark projects such as ‘Prokofiev and Shostakovich Under Stalin’ in 2003 (a project which he also took to Cologne, New York, Vienna and Moscow) and ‘Rachmaninoff Revisited’ in 2002 at the Lincoln Center in New York. Mr. Ashkenazy also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He maintains strong links with a number of other major orchestras with whom he has built special relationships over the years, including the Cleveland Orchestra (of whom he was formerly Principal Guest Conductor), San Francisco Symphony and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin (Chief Conductor and Music Direcotr 1988-96). He returned to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in October 2007.

Among his many recordings as a pianist are the 1999 Grammy award-winning Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Rachmaninov’s Transcriptions, Bach’s Wohltemperiertes Klavier and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Mr. Ashkenazy’s TV projects include Music After Mao, filmed in Shanghai, and the Ashkenazy in Moscow programs which marked his first visit in 1989 to the country of his birth since leaving the USSR in the 1960s. More recently he has developed educational programs with NHK TV, including the 1999 Superteachers with inner-city London school children, and in 2003-4 a documentary based around his ‘Prokofiev and Shostakovich Under Stalin’project.

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