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Noah Bendix-Balgley
Violin Soloist, 1st Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Philharmonix, Rosamunde Quartet.
π Can you tell how excited I was?! What an incredible 16 days it has been serving as jury at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. The 6 winners and laureates of the competition all performed wonderfully and I wish them the very best in their exciting career ahead of them! Here's a little photo dump with fond memories of my time at the competition π![]()
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1: Who says jury duty isn't fun?! With the super Romanians π·π΄ Liviu Prunaru (Concertgebouworkest concertmaster since 2006) and Mihaela Martin!![]()
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2: Prize winners of IVCI from 1st to 6th place: Sirena Huang Julian Rhee Manami Yoshida, Claire Wells SooBeen Lee Joshua Brown, Violinist![]()
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3: My violin heroes Jamie Laredo and Mauricio Fuks π¦ΈββοΈ Pictured with Mr Fuks' wife, Violaine.![]()
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4: Jury elevator selfie! Would've been funny if the elevator got stuckπ![]()
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5: With fellow jury members Liviu Prunaru, Jinjoo Cho (winner of the 2014 IVCI and fellow 'junior' jury memberπ), Cho Liang-Lin and my life-long teacher Mauricio Fuks.![]()
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6: With Glen Kwok, executive director of the IVCI, and his wife, the wonderful pianist Chih-Yi Chen, who I first played with when I was 13 years old!![]()
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7: Giving masterclasses for Fuks' studio!![]()
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8: All the restaurants were full for brunch before the football game, so we had a room service π₯ party! Yum π
π Happy 124th birthday Gershwin! I just love the tune of this song, "Bess, You is My Woman Now", here in the wonderful transcription by Jascha Heifetz. Did you know that Heifetz wanted Gershwin to write a violin concerto for him? That would have been amazing. Sadly Gershwin died (at the age of only 38) before the project could be realized.![]()
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Full Gershwin performance with Ohad Ben-Ari now on YouTube! Click to watch: youtu.be/-Zu03ubzkdg
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Hotel composition routine: writing cadenzas for Mozart Concerto (fueled by Indiana popcorn πΏπ)