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鋼琴／安妮卡．薇威克
Piano: Anika Vavic

維也納鋼琴家薇威克，出生於塞爾維亞的貝爾格勒。她擅長解決樂譜中突兀、晦澀的部分，演奏時又能兼顧強度及感性。她一向謹記著大提琴巨擘羅斯托波維奇所言：「音樂是一帖良藥，音樂家既是醫生也是神職人員；我相信音樂家的任務是感動和啟發聽眾，讓眾人能夠從瑣事中『康復』過來。」

薇威克與葛濟夫、帕佛‧賈維、林圖三位指揮定期合作，近年來她則與布魯尼爾、格拉岑尼特-特拉、卡拉畢茲、奧羅茲科-埃斯特拉達、佐渡裕、亞維及潘努拉等多位指揮建立了合作關係。

薇威克近幾年來的重要演出，包括了與馬林斯基管弦首演謝德林第四號鋼琴協奏曲，與倫敦愛樂(尤洛夫斯基指揮)在逍遙音樂節合作，在布加勒斯特安奈斯可音樂節登臺等。另外，她在聖彼得堡「白夜」音樂節、芬蘭米凱利音樂節、魯爾鋼琴藝術節、舒伯特音樂節、格拉費內格音樂節、海德堡之春、格拉茲藝術節、華沙貝多芬音樂節、伊斯坦堡音樂節、格斯塔德音樂高峰會等重要節慶演出。

薇威克經常在維也納金色大廳及維也納音樂廳舉行獨奏會，也受邀至世界各地巡演，她的足跡遍及卡內基音樂廳(紐約)、甘迺迪中心(華盛頓特區)、威格摩音樂廳(倫敦)、阿姆斯特丹大會堂、科隆愛樂廳、巴黎音樂城、盧森堡愛樂廳、加泰隆尼亞音樂宮、巴登巴登節慶廳以及柏林音樂廳等地。

她的室內樂搭檔包括了卡普頌兄弟、霍內克、威德蔓、波普、熊爾恩、穆勒-修特、阿奎隆木管五重奏及亞提斯弦樂四重奏等。

薇威克16歲時赴維也納求學，於維也納音樂及表演藝術大學師從弗羅瑞斯教授，亦受到蕾昂絲卡雅、貝爾曼、麥森伯格、薩茨、羅斯托波維奇等多位大師的提點。曾贏得維也納第二屆史坦威鋼琴大賽獎項，以及獲頒最佳海頓詮釋特別獎。榮獲維也納卡拉揚中心獎學金以及奧地利作曲家艾內姆基金會獎學金。2002年，薇威克獲得奧地利政府頒授女性藝術獎章(音樂類)。

薇威克演奏許多當代作品， 像是臺灣旅奧作曲家施捷的鋼琴五重奏、《安魂曲─給鋼琴、弦樂團與膜質樂器》(後者題獻給薇威克)。2005年，史陶德的創作《共有-為鋼琴的音樂》(Peras. Music for Piano)，由她擔任鋼琴獨奏，在魯爾鋼琴藝術節發表世界首演。她最喜愛彈奏當代作曲家謝德林的作品，除此之外，伯恩斯坦、卡列維•阿霍、特拉柯維契、烏斯特沃爾斯卡婭、康切利、葛瑞茲基等人的樂曲，也是她所激賞、推崇的近代作品。

「她那華麗、強而有力的演奏，有如一整個管弦樂團，令人聯想到俄羅斯鋼琴家的風格。她嚴謹控制樂曲形式，並不會於淘淘不絕的琴聲中迷失方向。這是在新上架的眾多CD中，最強勁、最令人印象深刻的演奏。」-德勒斯登【舞臺】

「驚人的智慧型詮釋和表現。薇威克這張獨奏CD在她的第二故鄉維也納製作，處處閃耀著活力和機鋒，同時又有著發自內心的深度刻畫。」-北德【基爾日報】

The Viennese pianist Anika Vavic, a native of Belgrade, is passionate about discovering the inconsistencies and ambiguities of the scores she illuminates at the piano, powerfully yet sensitively. She always strives to live up to the creed of her teacher, the cellist Rostropovich:

“Music is medicine, and we musicians are doctors and priests – I believe it is our job to ‘heal’ our audience from the trivialities of everyday life, to move and inspire them.”

Anika Vavic works regularly with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Paavo Järvi and Hannu Lintu. During recent years, she has also built musical partnerships with Stefan Blunier, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Kirill Karabits, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Yutaka Sado, Kristjan Järvi and Jorma Panula.

Among the highlights of recent years are her performances with the Mariinsky Orchestra, where she gave the first performance of Shchedrin’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski as part of the BBC Proms, and at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. She has performed at the “White Nights” in St. Petersburg, the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, the Piano Festival Ruhr, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Grafenegg Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Styriarte in Graz, at Klangbogen Wien, the Beethoven Easter Festival Warsaw, the Istanbul Music Festival and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad.

Anika Vavic regularly appears at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna. Recital tours have taken her to New York’s Carnegie Hall, Washington´s Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cologne’s Philharmonie, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, Luxembourg’s Philharmonie, Barcelona’s Palau de la Música, and to the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Konzerthaus Berlin.

Her chamber music partners include Gautier Capuçon, Rainer Honeck, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Caroline Widmann, Claudius Popp, Matthias Schorn, the Quintette Aquilon, the Artis Quartet as well as Renaud Capuçon and Daniel Müller-Schott.

At the age of 16, Anika Vavic moved to Vienna, where she studied with Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts. She also received important impulses from Elisabeth Leonskaja, Lazar Berman, Oleg Maisenberg, Alexander Satz and Mstislav Rostropovich. The winner of the Second Steinway Competition in Vienna and its Special Prize for the best Haydn interpretation also received scholarships from the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna and the Gottfried von Einem Foundation. In 2002 the Austrian State bestowed the Women’s Art Prize in the music category upon her.

Anika Vavic’s repertoire also includes contemporary music works, for example the Piano Concerto Requiem for Piano, Strings and Membranophone by the Chinese-Austrian composer Shih, which is dedicated to her, as well as his Piano Quintet. In 2005 the pianist took on the solo part in the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s Peras. Music for Piano at the Piano Festival Ruhr. In addition, Leonard Bernstein, Kalevi Aho, Vlastimir Trajkovic, Galina Ustvolskaya, Gia Kancheli, Henryk Gorecki and especially Rodion Shchedrin are among here favorite contemporary composers.

“Her brilliant, powerful playing has a certain tendency towards the orchestral, such as one finds mainly with Russian pianists. However, her classical feeling for form prevents her from ever losing herself within the river of sound. A strong, impressive CD which stands out from the great number of new releases.” (Die Bühne)

“Stupendous interpretative intelligence and expressivity. Her recital CD, produced in her adopted hometown of Vienna, sparkles with energy and wit, but has no lack of heartfelt profundity.” (Kieler Nachrichten)