Magic Stradivarius

Edvin Marton - Magic Stradivarius

 
 
 





Stradivarius
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A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial. The name "Stradivarius" has also become a superlative applied to designate excellence. To be called "the Stradivari" of any field is to be deemed the finest there is.





Edvin Marton
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Edvin Marton (born February 17, 1974, Tiszaújlak, Ukraine) is a Hungarian composer and violinist. His original name is Lajos Csűry. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.

Biography

He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. He was born into a musical family and at age of five was already learning the violin from his parents. He was eight when accepted into that alma mater for the most talented musicians of the Soviet Union, the Central Tchaikowsky Music School in Moscow.

He continued his studies with Eugenia Tchougaeva. He gave his first important concert at the age of twelve, with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. At the age of seventeen he became a student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, in the class of Géza Kapás. He took part in a masterclass given by Ruggiero Ricci, where he won the prize for the best participant, and he was also the Grant Prize winner of the International Course Competition in Berlin invited by Ruggiero Ricci too. Since 1993 he has been a "young soloist" for the National Philharmonic Concert Agency in Hungary.

He has performed with almost all the main Hungarian orchestras, and given concerts in Austria, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In May 1994 the internationally famous Dorothy Delay invited him to the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado where he gave a concert with Rohan de Silva. In New York he won a scholarship and was admitted to the class of Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School of Music.

His studies in New York at the Juilliard School of Music brought professional contacts which meant changes in his musical style. Here, in one of the most revered classical music environments of Juilliard, he mingled with DJ's and jumped from high level classical to what is referred today as crossover.

Still in his 20s, Marton had traveled to more than 30 countries, and played in such renowned concert halls as the Berliner Philharmonie and Vienna's Koncerthaus. But he was looking for a change. A former classmate said of him, "After he graduated from the music academy the talented, jovial and rotund Lajos disappeared, only to return as a slim, easy listening, music playing Edvin Marton."[1]

He was always more interested in playing his own music, and this doesn't mean that he wouldn't play Mozart or Vivaldi, it's just that today it is more exciting to perform these works with electronic sounds, since we live in the 21st century.

He won his chance to play on a donated Stradivarius in a world competition in Canada in 1996, from among 350 violinists. It has been lent to him for his life by a Swiss Bank. "The violin I'm using is from 1697, it's a Stradivarius and was actually played by Paganini over 300 years ago. I won the chance to play it when I won a competition in Montreal in 1996, and now it's in Belgrade with us."[2]

Education

In 1983 Tchaikovsky Academy, Moscow
in 1991 Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Zeneakadémia[1]), Budapest
In 1994 Juilliard School of Music in New York
In 1995 graduating at Music Academy in Vienna

Awards

2006 Emmy Award winner in America for Best Composition, for song "Romeo and Juliet" performed for over 300 million television viewers as part of the 2006 Torino Olympic Winter Games, during Russian Gold Medal Men's Figure Skater Evgeny Plushenko's routine
2008 Eurovision Song Contest — featured performer and co-writer of Dima Bilan's winning song "Believe"
 

Discography

1996 Sarasate
Eight Spanish Dances: Malaguena Op.21 No 1.
Habanera
Romanza andaluza
Jota Navarra
Playera
Zapateado
Spanish Dance
Spanish Dance
Caprice Basque: Moderato
Allegro moderato
Zigeunerweisen: Moderato. Lento
Un poco piú lento
Allegro molto vivace
Concert Fantasy on Carmen: Introduction. Allegro moderato
Moderato
Lento assai
Alegro moderato
Moderato

2001 Strings 'N' Beats
King Of The Forest
Miss You
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Una furtiva lagrima
Magic Stradivarius
Birdman /Romanian Folk Song
Secret Emotions
Fire Dance
Gloomy Sunday
First Date
Wind Of Spring
Panis Angelicus
Spaces Of Freedom
Sarabande
Art On Ice

2004 Virtuoso
Gypsy Dance
Beethoven 5
Love Story
Hibi-Haba
Aura
Guitarra Latino
Romeo and Juliet
Irish
Hungarian Rhapsody
India
Virtuoso
Dark Angel
Oda of Joy
Carmina Burana

2006 Stradivarius
Tosca Fantasy
Vivaldi Spring
Rio Carneval
Badinerie
Romeo and Juliet
Dramatico
My Love is Deep
Bellydance
Love in Venice
Tchaikovsky Remix
Ibiza
C'est la Vie- Instrumental Version
Ice Symphony
O Sole Mio
Crazy Violin
Hungarian Rhapsody No.6
Fireworks
Paganini
Bonus- C'est la Vie feat. Lou Bega