User:Anneshih/sandbox
Anne Shih (Violinist)
[edit]Anne Shih | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Pedagogue |
| Instrument | Violinist |
| Website | www.anneshih.org |
Career
[edit]Anne Shih was born in Edmonton, Alberta as the eldest of three sisters (Anne ,Connie and Patricia) who all became internationally renowned classical musicians. Her parents both came from the province of Shandong, but grew up in Taiwan. Both are liberal intellectuals in the education field. They were engaged in Taiwan but married in Canada where all three daughters were born and raised.
Anne began formal violin lessons at age 7 in Washington, USA, gave her recital debut in Vancouver and made her debut with the Calgary Philharmonic a year later. Equally prodigious as a pianist, she has won prizes at many of the important national competitions, on both instruments. She was also awarded the Salzburg Mozarteumspreis.
Mentored by the legendary Josef Gingold at Indiana University from 1986-1991, Anne Shih became Gingold’s last teaching assistant. She was recipient of the university’s 1988 International Student Academic Achievement Award for outstanding scholastic performance and received her Bachelor and her Master of Music with highest honours. She has also worked with, assisted and performed with Denes Zsigmondy in Seattle, USA as well as in Germany, Italy, Hungary and Austria. In 1991 (at the age of 22), Anne was appointed visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, later becoming member of Faculty and Chairperson of the String Department at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.
In 1997, Anne Shih was appointed one of the youngest ever tenured Full Professor of Violin in Germany at Hochschule für Musik Mainz, a position she still holds[1] today together with serving as Head of the Strings Department.
Activities
[edit]Anne’s solo and chamber music performances as a violinist and pianist have taken her to concert halls across North America, Europe and Asia. Her chamber music partners have included Julianne Banse, Giacomo Battarino, Julius Berger, Roger Chase, Lluis Claret, Jose Gallardo, Josef Gingold, Oliver Kern, Oleg Krysa, Robert McDonald, Hartmut Rohde, Guido Schiefen, Connie Shih, Andor Toth, Tilmann Wick, Sung Won Yang, Denes Zsigmondy, or the Borealis Quartet.
Anne Shih lectures in numerous masterclasses throughout North America, Europe and Asia – including, for example, China Beijing Central Conservatory of Music and Universities in Korea and Taiwan. Festival collaborations as interpreter and lecturer have included the Auer Music Festival, Kincardine Festival[2], the Holzhauser Musiktage, the Euro Arts Festival, Salzburg Summer Festival, Eckelshausener Musiktage, Stavanger K&Mfest[3] and the International Beethovenfest in Bonn.
In 2003, Shih co-founded Norfolk Concerts, serving as Artistic Director from 2003 - 2013, actively promoting music in schools in the Norfolk area.
From 2010, she took over as Artistic Director of the Casalmaggiore International Festival[4], largely helping to broaden the Festival’s horizons and garnering loyal audience, alumni and reputation across the globe. In 2018, she founded a second festival, Musiktage am Rhein in Germany working with the Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz, focusing on mentorship, education and cultural exchange between east and west.
Several of her students have won top international prizes, such as the Iternational Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Yfrah Neaman International Violin Competition , Marschner International Violin and Viola Competition, Spivakov International Violin Competition, Bartok of the World International Competition and Yankelevich International Violin Competition.
Many of her students now hold positions and leading positions in orchestras throughout Europe, North America and Asia, including the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Moscow, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, SWR Sinfonie Orchester, Philharmonia Opolska, Suwon Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Opera Colorado, Hessisches Staatsorchester. Anne Shih has also served as a jury member at international competitions.
Shih is Artistic Director of the Mainzer Virtuosi chamber orchestra, an ensemble based in Mainz which specializes in the performance of solo pieces, performed by the members themselves. Additionally, the ensemble supports young performers, composers and international prize winners. Mainzer Virtuosi performed at leading halls in Europe such as Cadogan Hall in London, the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden and St. John’s Smith Square. They have recorded three CDs to date – one under the Sheva label[5].
Shih has been Vice-Chairman of the Society for Friendship between China and Germany since 2016.
She works on a global educational project, Ming Shih Academy (MSA) with a team of Artifical Intelligence professionals.
Anne Shih plays on a Giuseppe filius Andrea Guarnerius of 1711.