小提琴家：约瑟夫?西尔夫斯坦

　　CCTV.com消息：国际著名的指挥家、小提琴家约瑟夫?西尔夫斯坦从1983年至1998年一直担任犹他州交响乐团的音乐总监。1998―1999年度，他成为肖托夸交响乐团的桂冠指挥，1986-1987年度和1988―1989年他成为乐团的音乐总监。

　　约瑟夫?西尔夫斯坦出生在美国的底特律市，父亲伯纳德是他的启蒙老师，当时他父亲是底特律的公共学校的音乐教师。他在费城柯蒂斯音乐学院受到系统教育，师从约瑟夫?金戈尔德，米沙?米沙考夫，和埃弗里?津巴利斯特。1950年离开柯蒂斯音乐学院之后，他和休斯敦交响乐团合作了三年，与费城管弦乐团合作了一年，又作为乐团首席和助理指挥与丹佛交响乐团合作了一年。自1955年秋天起的七个音乐季，他一直担任波士顿交响乐团小提琴声部的演奏员，1962年他成为乐团首席，1971年成为助理指挥，并从1983至1984年开始身兼二职。他在任期内，曾带领乐团在美国、加拿大以及全世界举行超过100场次的演出。他同时也是堪萨斯州交响乐团、路易斯维尔交响乐团、.巴尔的摩交响乐团、托莱多交响乐团、弗吉尼亚州交响乐团、佛罗里达州交响乐团、阿拉巴马州交响乐团、温尼伯交响乐团和奥克兰交响乐团的艺术顾问。

　　作为一名指挥家蒹独奏家，约瑟夫?西尔夫斯坦已经与美国、日本、以色列以及欧洲的100多个交响乐团合作过。他经常参加国际重要比赛，1959年他获得在布鲁塞尔举行的伊丽莎白女皇比赛中银奖，还赢得过沃尔特W. Naumburg奖。在最近的乐季中，他将与柏林交响乐团、佛罗里达管弦乐团、杰克逊维尔交响乐团、新墨西哥交响乐团、台湾的科罗拉多交响乐团。他还将出现在瑞典举行的Verbier音乐节、英格兰的奥尔德堡音乐节以及意大利著名的Teatro Comunale di Ferrara。

　　西尔夫斯坦先生于1962年组建了波士顿交响室内乐团，在去犹他州交响乐团之前，一直担任该团的音乐总监。他带领该乐团到全世界以及全美巡演过八次。他还是耶鲁大学、波士顿大学和坦格尔伍德音乐中心的教员。

　　西尔夫斯坦先生曾为RCA、德意志唱片公司、哥伦比亚唱片公司、Nonesuch、新世界唱片公司、泰拉克唱片公司及普罗艺术公司的录制过唱片。他为泰拉克唱片公司录制的与波士顿交响乐团合作演奏的维瓦尔第的《四季》得到葛莱美奖的提名。他最近的唱片包括为普罗艺术公司录制的由他自己担任指挥和小提琴独奏的，与犹他州交响乐团合作的唱片。这些录音包含门德尔松全集、贝多芬全集、巴伯全集、格里格/舒曼合集、以及包括勃拉姆斯、柴可夫斯基、德沃夏克和西贝柳斯的小提琴协奏曲的唱片。他最近与犹他州交响乐团合作录制的由迈克尔?鲍里斯金演奏有乔治?珀尔和理查德丹尼尔波尔的作品的唱片。其它的最新录音还有为得洛斯录制的与林肯中心室内乐团合作的巴赫的《勃兰登堡协奏曲》，以及为索尼古典唱片公司录制的《G大调施密特四重奏》。

　　Joseph Silverstein Conductor / Violinist

　　Internationally acclaimed conductor and violinist Joseph Silverstein was Music Director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra from 1983 until 1998. He became Conductor Laureate in the 1998-99 season and Music Director of the Chautauqua Symphony from 1986-87 through 1988-89.

　　Born in Detroit, his first teacher was his father Bernard, who was a music instructor in Detroit’s public school system. His formal training took place at the Curits Institute of Music in Philadelphia and his teachers included such luminaries as Josef Gingold, Mischa Mischakoff, and Efrem Zimbalist. After leaving the Curtis Institute in 1950, He spent three seasons with the Houston Symphony, one with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and one season as concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Denver Symphony. He joined the Boston Symphony in the fall of 1955 and was a member of the violin section for seven seasons. He became concertmaster in 1962 and assistant conductor in 1971, holding both positions through the 1983-84 seasons. During his tenure at Boston, he conducted the orchestra on more than 100 occasions in the United States, Canada and abroad. He has also served as artistic advisor to the Kansas City, Louisville, Baltimore, Toledo, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Winnipeg and Oakland Symphony Orchestras.

　　As a conductor and soloist, Mr. Silverstein has appeared with more than 100 orchestras in the United States, as well as in Japan, Israel and Europe. As a participant in major international competitions, he was the Silver medallist in the 1959 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, and also won the Walter W. Naumburg Award. Future and recent engagements with Mr. Silverstein Conducting and appearing as soloist include the Berlin Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, as well as appearances at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Aldeburgh Festival of England, and at the prestigious Teatro Comunale di Ferrara in Italy.

　　Mr. Silverstein organized the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in 1962 and served as Music Director of that ensemble until coming to the Utah Symphony. He led eight international tours, as well as many United States tours. He has been a member of the faculties at Yale University, Boston University and the Tanglewood Music Center.

　　Mr. Silverstein has extensively for RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, CBS, Nonesuch, and New World Records, Telarc and Pro Arte. His Telarc recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra received a Grammy nomination. Other recent recordings, on which Mr. Silverstein is both conductor and featured soloist, are with the Utah Symphony on Pro Arte. They include an all-Mendelssohn album, an all-Beethoven album, an all-Barber, a Grieg/Schumann recording, and recordings featuring the Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Sibelius Violin Concerti. His most recent recording with the Utah Symphony features the pianist Michael Boriskin in repertoire by George Perle and Richard Danielpour. Other recent releases include the Bach Brandenburg Concertos with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Delos, and the Schmitt Quintet in G Major on Sony Classical.

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