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LEONARD SCHREIBER (Violin) |
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Leonard Schreiber was born in 1984 in Antwerp, Belgium. He began his violin studies at the age of six and made his concerto debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders a year later. In 1995 he won the Herman Krebbers International Violin Competition in Maastricht, Netherlands, which gave him the opportunity to perform more concertos with orchestra and work with the Belgian conductor Dirk Brossé. Leonid Kerbel prepared him for a professional career. He participates in various Masterclasses with teachers such as Dr Felix Andrievsky, Herman Krebbers and Boris Kuschnir, and soloists Shlomo Mintz and Maxim Vengerov.
In 1999 Leonard was awarded a full scholarship at the Purcell School in the UK. Subsequently, he received the Foundation Scholarship to continue his studies with Dr Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music in London, graduating with First Class Honours in 2004. He then completed a Masters in Performance at the RCM with Levon Chilingirian supported by the Frederick Johnston Award, with First Class Honours. He has also won other awards from the MBF and the MMSF.
Leonard has given concerts and recitals in many countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and the UK. He has also performed as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Musicum of Kiev, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the London Soloists and the Lima Radio Philharmonic Orchestra to name a few. He has had the honour of playing for Prince Charles at Windsor Castle and for Prince Philippe in Brussels. He was also invited by Mischa Maisky to take part in a programme produced for the Japanese television company NHK.
In 2004 he won the competition Junge Stars von Morgen in Koblenz, Germany. He was a finalist at the Young Concert Artist Trust Competition held at the Wigmore Hall in May 2004. Last year he has performed concertos at St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Luke’s, as well as recitals at St James, Piccadilly and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recently, Leonard won the Concerto Competition at the Royal College of Music, as a result performing the Khachaturian Violin Concerto with the College’s orchestra under Neil Thomson.
In 2007, Leonard played Bach’s double concerto with oboist Maurice Bourgue and the St.Petersburg Orchestra under the direction of Jean-Bernard Pommier at the Menton Festival. He appeared with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited in Lima Peru, where he played a series of concertos followed by recitals in Belgium, England, France, Germany and Scotland.
In January 2008 he performed Bruch and Saint-Saëns concertos for his Paris Debut at the Salle Gaveau. Radio France chose him as Artist of the month of June. This included interviews in the French magazine Classica, on the radio programme Dans la Cour des Grands and a recital broadcasted live by them.
In April 2008 Leonard participated in the Gala concert for the Prince of Wales’ 60th Anniversary, held at Buckingham Palace.
Leonard plays an Italian violin by Alessandro Mezzadri, Ferrara 1710, kindly loaned by Georg Von Opel. |
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