James Ehnes
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James Ehnes | |
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Born | Brandon,Manitoba | January 27, 1976
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Instrument(s) | Violin,Viola |
Website | jamesehnes |
James Ehnes,CMOMFRSC(born January 27, 1976) is aCanadianconcertviolinistandviolist.
Early life[edit]
Ehnes was born inBrandon, Manitoba,the son of Alan Ehnes,[1]long time trumpet professor atBrandon University(Canada), and Barbara Withey Ehnes, former ballerina withLes Grands Ballets Canadiens,Ruth Page's International Ballet, andChicago Ballet,and former director of the Brandon School of Dance. Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four and at age nine became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin.[2]He studied with Sally Thomas at theMeadowmount School of Musicand from 1993 to 1997 atThe Juilliard School,winning thePeter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Musicupon his graduation.[3]
James Ehnes toured with Jeunesses MusicalesCanada during the 1992–1993 season, when he was only 16 years old.[4]
Career[edit]
Ehnes has performed with all of the major orchestras in North America including theNew York Philharmonic Orchestra,theChicago Symphony Orchestra,theBoston Symphony Orchestra,thePhiladelphia Orchestra,theCleveland Orchestra,and theLos Angeles Philharmonic Orchestrain the U.S., as well as theToronto Symphony Orchestra,theMontreal Symphony Orchestra,theVancouver Symphony Orchestra,and theNational Arts Centre Orchestrain Canada.[5]
In Europe he has performed as soloist with theLondon Symphony Orchestra,thePhilharmonia,theBBC Symphony Orchestra,theBBC Philharmonic,theRoyal Scottish National Orchestra,theRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic,theUlster Orchestra,theDeutsche Kammerphilharmonie,theOrchestre National de Lyon,theCzech Philharmonic Orchestra,theBudapest Festival Orchestra,and theFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,plus many others.[5]
In October 2005, he was awarded a Doctor of Music degree (honoris causa) fromBrandon Universityand in July 2007 he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada.In 2010, he was made a Member of theOrder of Canada.[6]
Ehnes performs on the 1715 "ex-Marsick "Stradivarius.[7]His commercial recordings have won many awards and prizes, including 11Junos,twoGrammies,[8]and twoGramophone Classical Music Awards- 2008 Best Concerto[9]forEdward Elgar's Violin Concerto- 2021 Artist of the Year.[10]
Ehnes was awarded the 2017Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awardsin the Instrumentalist category.[11]
Ehnes joined theRoyal Academy of Musicas visiting professor of violin in 2017.[12][13]
Ehnes will joinThe Indiana University Jacobs School of Musicfaculty as a professor of practice in violin as of August 1, 2024.[14][15]
Ehnes is artistic director of theSeattle Chamber Music Society.He and violinistAmy Schwartz Moretti,violist Che-Yen Chen, and cellist Edward Arron perform as the Ehnes Quartet.[16]
Ehnes lives inEllenton, Floridawith his wife and two children.
Discography[edit]
James Ehnes[edit]
- 1995Niccolò Paganini:24 Caprices for Solo Violin
- 2000Sergei Prokofiev:Violin Sonata No. 1|Violin Sonata No. 2| Five Melodies
- 2000Maurice Ravel:Violin Sonata No. 2|Tzigane| Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré,Claude Debussy:Violin Sonata,Camille Saint-Saëns:Violin Sonata No. 1
- 2000Johann Sebastian Bach:The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
- 2000French Showpieces -Camille Saint-Saëns:Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso|Havanaise,Hector Berlioz:Le corsaire| Rêverie et caprice,Ernest Chausson:Poème,Claude Debussy:Tarantelle styrienne,Darius Milhaud:Cinéma Fantaisie,Jules Massenet:Méditationfrom the operaThaïs
- 2001Max Bruch:Violin ConcertosNos. 1&3
- 2002Bruch:Concerto No. 2andScottish Fantasy
- 2002Fritz Kreisler- Track 20. Petite Valse (Piano Solo: James Ehnes)
- 2003Robert Schumann:Piano Quintet,Gabriel Fauré:Piano Quintet No. 2
- 2004Romantic Pieces
- 2004Henryk Wieniawski|Pablo de Sarasate
- 2004Johann Nepomuk Hummel:Op. 94, Potpourri for Viola and Orchestra / Adagio and Rondo alla Polacca for Violin and Orchestra / Violin Concerto in G major
- 2004Ernő Dohnányi:Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 43
- 2004Luigi Dallapiccola:Tartiniana (Divertimento for Violin and Orchestra)
- 2005John Adams:Road Moviesfor violin and piano,Hallelujah Junctionfor two pianos (Piano:Andrew Russo,James Ehnes)
- 2005Antonín Dvořák:Violin Concerto
- 2005Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Vol.1
- 2006Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Vol.2
- 2006Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Violin Concertos 1-5
- 2006Samuel Barber,Erich Wolfgang Korngold,William Walton:Violin Concertos -Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,Bramwell Tovey(50th Annual Grammy Awards-Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra))
- 2007Paul Schoenfield:Four Souvenirs for violin and piano, Café Music for piano trio
- 2007Edward Elgar:Violin Concerto(2008Gramophone Classical Music Awards- Best Concerto)
- 2009Homage
- 2009Niccolò Paganini:24 Caprices for Solo Violin.[17]
- 2010Felix Mendelssohn:Violin Concerto,Octet
- 2011Béla Bartók:Violin Concerto No. 1|Violin Concerto No. 2|Viola Concerto
- 2011Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:Violin Concerto|Sérénade mélancolique|Valse-Scherzo|Souvenir d'un lieu cher(I. Méditation - II. Scherzo - III. Mélodie)
- 2012Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1 -RhapsodyFolk DancesNo. 1|RhapsodyFolk DancesNo. 2| Violin Sonata No. 1 | Violin Sonata No. 2 | Andante
- 2012Tchaikovsky:The Sleeping Beauty-Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra,Neeme Järvi
- 2013Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2 -Sonata for Solo Violin| Violin Sonata in E minor |Romanian Folk Dances| Hungarian Folksongs | Hungarian Folk Tunes[18]
- 2013Benjamin Britten:Violin Concerto|Dmitri Shostakovich:Violin Concerto No. 1
- 2013Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin -Violin Concerto No. 1|Violin Concerto No. 2|Violin Sonata No. 1|Violin Sonata No. 2|Sonata for Two Violins|Sonata for Solo Violin| Five Melodies
- 2013Tchaikovsky:Swan Lake- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
- 2014Aram Khachaturian:Violin Concerto| Shostakovich:String Quartet No. 7,String Quartet No. 8
- 2014Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 3 -Contrastsfor Violin, Clarinet, and Piano |Sonatina(Transcription for Violin and Piano) |44 Duos for Two Violins
- 2014American Chamber Music:Aaron Copland|Charles Ives|Leonard Bernstein|Elliott Carter|Samuel Barber
- 2015Hector Berlioz:Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 (violin) |Harold en Italie,Op. 16 (viola)
- 2015Cesar FranckandRichard Strauss:Violin Sonatas
- 2015Leoš Janáček:The Wandering of a Little Soul (Violin Concerto)
- 2015Aaron Jay Kernis:2 Movements (with Bells)
- 2015The Essential James Ehnes (containing works by Bach, Kreisler, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, and Berlioz)
- 2015Antonio Vivaldi:The Four Seasons|Giuseppe Tartini:The Devil's Trill|Jean-Marie Leclair:Violin Sonata, Op. 9 No. 3
- 2016Claude Debussy:Violin Sonata|Edward Elgar:Violin Sonata|Ottorino Respighi:Violin Sonata in B minor|Jean Sibelius:10 Pensées lyriques, Op. 40: 5. Berceuse
- 2017Ludwig van Beethoven:Violin Sonata No. 9|Violin Sonata No. 6
- 2017Beethoven:Violin Concerto|Romance no. 1 Op. 40|Romance no. 2 Op. 50,Franz Schubert:Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438
- 2017Bartók:RhapsodyFolk DancesNo. 1|RhapsodyFolk DancesNo. 2(Violin and Orchestra)
- 2018William Walton:Viola Concerto
- 2018Ralph Vaughan Williams:The Lark Ascending
- 2018James Newton Howard:Violin Concerto,Aaron Jay Kernis:Violin Concerto,Bramwell Tovey:Stream of Limelight (61st Annual Grammy Awards-Best Classical Instrumental Solo)
- 2019Richard Strauss:Violin Concerto
- 2019James Newton Howard:A Hidden Life(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- 2019Beethoven: Op. 12Violin Sonata No. 1|Violin Sonata No. 2|Violin Sonata No. 3,Variations onSe vuol ballarefrom Mozart'sThe Marriage of Figaro
- 2020Beethoven:Violin Sonata No. 4|Violin Sonata No. 5|Violin Sonata No. 8,Six German Dances, Rondo in G Major
- 2020Beethoven:Violin Sonata No. 7|Violin Sonata No. 10
- 2020Bach & Brahms Reimagined -Johannes Brahms:Horn Trio,Bach:Brandenburg Concerto No. 2,Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
- 2021Eugène Ysaÿe:Six Sonatas for solo violin
- 2021Bach:Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
- 2022Alban Berg:Violin Concerto
- 2023Carl Nielsen:Violin Concerto
- 2023Karol Szymanowski:Myths|George Frideric Handel:Violin sonata in D major (HWV 371)|James Newton Howard:133...At Least | Tchaikovsky: Twelve Pieces Op. 40–6, Chanson sans paroles |Josef Suk:4 Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 17–4, Burleska |Samuel Dushkin:Sicilienne |Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:Flight of the Bumblebee|Manuel Ponce:Estrellita |Percy Grainger:Molly on the Shore
- 2024Igor Stravinsky:Violin Concerto
- 2024Erich Wolfgang Korngold:Violin Concerto(2022 concert)National Arts Centre Orchestra,Alexander Shelley
- 2024Leonard Bernstein:Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"|John Williams:Violin Concerto No. 1 -St. Louis Symphony Orchestra,Stéphane Denève
Ehnes Quartet[edit]
- 2016Franz Schubert:String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810,Jean Sibelius:String Quartet in D minor
- 2021Beethoven:String Quartet No. 13|Grosse Fuge
- 2021Beethoven:String Quartet No. 12|String Quartet No. 14
- 2021Beethoven:String Quartet No. 10|String Quartet No. 11
- 2022Beethoven:String Quartet No. 15|String Quartet No. 16
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^"Ehnes, Alan Charles".Brandon Sun.12 Oct 2019.Retrieved4 Feb2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^King, Betty Nygaard (13 Dec 2013)."Francis Chaplin".Canadian Encyclopedia.Retrieved4 Feb2020.
- ^Hanson, Philip (1 October 1998)."The Boy from Brandon: Canada's Violin Hope".La Scena Musicale.Retrieved17 February2012.
- ^"BAnQ numérique".Numerique.banq.qc.ca(in French).Retrieved2021-06-11.
- ^ab"James Ehnes | School of Music".Brandonu.ca.
- ^Cloutier, Annabelle (30 June 2010)."Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada".Governor General of Canada.Retrieved22 April2014.
- ^Fishman, Elly (2023-01-17)."The Man Who Fixes the World's Finest Violins".Chicago Magazine.Retrieved2023-01-30.
- ^"Archived copy".Archived fromthe originalon 2021-10-03.Retrieved2019-02-12.
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:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^"Concerto".Gramophone.
- ^"Artist of the Year | James Ehnes".Gramophone.
- ^"Instrumentalist: Winners to date".Royal Philharmonic Society.
- ^"James Ehnes".Royal Academy of Music.
- ^"James Ehnes joins London's Royal Academy of Music as visiting professor of violin".The Strad.March 16, 2017.
- ^"Violinist James Ehnes appointed to Jacobs School of Music faculty".Jacobs School of Music.October 13, 2023.
- ^"Violinist James Ehnes Joins Jacobs School of Music Faculty".The Violin Channel.October 16, 2023.
- ^May, Thomas (14 July 2015)."Star violinist James Ehnes on his 'other' life as a chamber musician".The Strad.Archived fromthe originalon 2015-07-17.
- ^Andrew Clements (2009-10-22)."Paganini: 24 Caprices: James Ehnes/Paganini: 24 Caprices: Thomas Zehetmair".The Guardian.Retrieved2015-06-30.
- ^Fiona Maddocks(2013-01-19)."Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2: Sonatas and Folk Dances – review".The Observer.Retrieved2015-06-30.
External links[edit]
- Official James Ehnes site
- Intermusica agency page on James Ehnes
- James Ehnes-Discogs
- James Ehnes-AllMusic
- James Ehnes-Chandos Records
- James Ehnes- Onyx Classics
- Ehnes Quartet- Onyx Classics
- James Ehnes-Royal Academy of Music
- James Ehnes, Artistic Director-Seattle Chamber Music Society
- James Ehnes- Chamber Soloists of Detroit
- Ehnes Quartet- Chamber Soloists of Detroit
- interview, feature article
- October 1998 Cover Story-La Scena Musicale
- June 2001 Cover Story-La Scena Musicale
- The WholeNote (November 2009) James Ehnes Returns
- Presto Music (2021) James Ehnes on working from home
- Presto Music (2024) James Ehnes on John Williams and Leonard Bernstein
- Violinist.com interview with James Ehnes(2009 album, Homage)
- Violinist.com interview with James Ehnes(2015 album, Four Seasons)
- interview with James Ehnes -Vancouver Classical Music|Seen and Heard International(2017)
- James Ehnes interview- (Tarisio Auctions,2014)
- James Ehnes Keeps a Compelling Calendar- (Ravinia Festival,2023)
- Audio and video
- James Ehnes plays Sibelius Violin Concerto(2015) Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- James Ehnes plays Korngold Violin Concerto(2022) National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley
- WQXR Carnegie Hall Live - Korngold Violin ConcertoNational Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (February 12, 2024) 4m30s interview1, 29m Korngold, 57m encore1, 1h6m encore2, 1h10m interview2carnegiehall.org
- Mendelssohn String Octet, Op.20- Montreal Chamber Music Festival (June 19, 2022)
- Schubert Fantasie in C major, D.934- Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival (August 23, 2020)
- Utah Symphony:James Ehnes on Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
- Philharmonia Orchestra: James Ehnes on Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto -interview|Listening Guide, Part 1|Listening Guide, Part 2
- Vancouver Symphony Orchestra:In Conversation | James Ehnes
- The Violin Channel: James Ehnes - VC 20 Questions(Bravo! Vail Festival,2017)
- National Arts Centre Orchestra - NACOcast(April 16, 2007)
- BBC Radio 3 - In Tune(August 11, 2014)
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra Podcast(June 5, 2016) James Ehnes on Elgar Violin Concerto
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra Podcast(March 5, 2017) James Ehnes on working with composer Aaron Jay Kernis
- James Ehnes in Conversation with Clemency Burton-Hill-Wigmore HallPodcast (November 2017)
- James Ehnes on his string quartet and recording late Beethoven-GramophonePodcast (2022)
- James Ehnes on Leonard Bernstein and John Williams-GramophonePodcast (2024)
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Canadian classical violinists
- Canadian male classical violinists
- Musicians from Brandon, Manitoba
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Juilliard School alumni
- Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment winners
- Canadian people of German descent
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Canadian expatriate musicians in the United States
- Grammy Award winners
- Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble winners
- 21st-century classical violinists
- 21st-century Canadian male musicians
- 20th-century classical violinists
- 20th-century Canadian male musicians
- 20th-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
- Canadian male violinists and fiddlers