VIENNA 〓 Albena Danailova Named Concertmaster for 2024 “New Year’s Concert”

2023/12/25

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that Albena Danailova will be the concertmaster for the New Year’s Concert 2024. This is the first time that a female concertmaster has been appointed for the New Year’s Concert.

Danailova was born in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. She grew up in a family where her father was a violinist and her mother a piano teacher, and studied in Germany in 1995 when she was 18 years old. After studying at the Rostock University of Music and Hamburg University of Music, she joined the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra in Munich as a player of the second violin section.

She later became first violin section and then first concertmaster in 2003. 2003-2004 she was concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2008 she became concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Since 2011, she has been the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Photo：Cantus Firmus　/　Ivo Chupetlovski


How about this ?

  1. WARSAW 〓 Applications for the Chopin International Piano Competition exceeded 500

  2. ZURICH 〓 Claire Huangci won the 14th Geza Anda International Piano Competition

  3. VIENNA 〓 Poprawski from Poland takes the top of the viola section of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra

  4. VIGO 〓 The 3rd Competition in 2019 is “Argerich Edition”

  5. TOKYO 〓 Kornilios Viktor Michailidis won first prize at the Tokyo International Conducting Competition

  6. MILAN 〓 Manuel Legris will become artistic director of Teatro alla Scala ballet

  7. Marlboro Music Festival 〓 Festival announced that Jonathan Biss would assume the role of co-artistic director with Mitsuko Uchida

  8. BERLIN 〓 Merkel administration has announced that concerts and other events will be banned until the end of August

  9. MONTREAL 〓 Rafael Payar will become the next music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

  10. INDIANAPOLIS 〓 Taiwanese-American Richard Lin won the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

  11. OTSU 〓 Biwako Hall announced the schedule of 2019

  12. New York 〓 Alagna did not sing the third act, in the performance of 《Samson et Dalila》

  13. BUDAPEST 〓 Confessed that Ivan Fischer was in danger of blindness

  14. MILAN 〓 Christoph von Dohnányi, Resurrection also canceled

  15. VIENNA 〓 Jansons, cancellation continues

  1. No comments yet.

  1. No trackbacks yet.