Michael Barenboim

Violinist from France

Michael Barenboim is a violinist and violist, born in Paris in 1985, the son of the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim and the pianist Elena Bashkirova. He first learned the piano at the age of four and took up the violin after the family moved to Berlin in 1992, studying with Abraham Jaffe and Axel Wilczok. He joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2000 and has been its concertmaster since 2003, and he founded and leads the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble. A committed advocate of contemporary music, he worked closely with Pierre Boulez, notably in Schoenberg's Violin Concerto, played in the Boulez Ensemble, and has given premieres of works by composers such as Jörg Widmann and Kareem Roustom. He has recorded the Mozart and Beethoven piano trios for Deutsche Grammophon with his father and the cellist Kian Soltani. He is professor of violin and chamber music at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and has been its dean since 2020. In 2022 he became the violist of the Michelangelo String Quartet. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Michael Barenboim
Alternative Spellings Michael Barenboïm
Relationships is the son/daughter of Daniel Barenboim
Links Verbier Festival Profile ,  Salzburg Festival Profile ,  Lucerne Festival Profile

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Complete Mozart Trios

2019-09-13

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)