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Linda Emilsson

source: Dumitritza Gore

Vita

Linda Emilia Emilsson, born on 19.12.2005, grew up with her three sisters in a family of musicians.
She received her first violin and piano lessons from her parents at the age of three. From 2015 to 2023, she attended the gifted music program at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart. At the same time, she started at the Stuttgart Music School, where she was taught in the gifted class (STUVO) by Monika Giurgiuman (piano) and Ovidiu Abramovici (violin). In 2019, she finally decided to switch entirely to the viola. In October 2022, she began her junior studies with Prof. Pauline Sachse. In October 2023, after graduating from high school, she began her bachelor's degree at the Hochscule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, also in Prof. Pauline Sachse's class. From October 2024, she will join Prof. Hartmut Rohde's class at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

She has won several prizes in the "Jugend musiziert" competition in the categories viola solo, violin solo, piano solo and various chamber music competitions. She is also a first prize winner of the Baden-Württemberg Tonkünstler Competition and the Karl Adler International Music Competition.

Together with her three sisters, she forms the Emiliana Ensemble, with which they won a special prize from the Harald Genzmer Foundation at WESPE in the category "Best interpretation of a modern classical work".

Linda Emilia Emilsson receives the Ernst Efinger Scholarship and is a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life. Roland Glassl, Hartmut Rohde and Martin Funda gave her important musical inspiration at master classes. As part of a Kronberg Academy project, she played as a chamber music partner with Steven Kim and Adrien La Marca.

Since September 2022, she has been provided with a viola by the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben".

Repertoire

First Round

  • J. S. Bach: Suite  No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
    • 1. Prélude (4')
    • 4. Sarabande (4')
  • F. A. Hoffmeister: Viola Concerto in D major
    • 1. Allegro  (8')
  • F. X. Mozart: Sonata E major op. 19
    • 1. Allegro (10')
  • P. Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Viola op. 25 No. 1
    • 3. Sehr langsam (6')
    • 4. Rasendes Zeitmaß. Wild. Tonschönheit ist Nebensache (2')

 

Second Round

  • D. Schostakowitsch: Sonata op. 147 (29')
    • 1. Moderato
    • 2. Allegretto
    • 3. Adagio
  • P. Pujanek: Dentro (11')
  • F. Schubert: Sonata A minor D 821 ""Arpeggione"" (25')
    • 1. Allegro moderato 
    • 2.Adagio
    • 3. Allegretto
  • K. Penderecki: Cadenza for Viola Solo (7') 

 

Piano: UdK accompanist

 

Finale

  • William Walton: Viola Concerto (27')
    • 1. Andante comodo
    • 2. Scherzo and trio
    • 3. Finale – allegro moderato