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Her most recent concert tour of the UK with the
American Gena Raps, featuring works by Bach,
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bloch and Thea Musgrave,
attracted capacity audiences. The Birmingham Post
wrote of her performance of the Chaconne from Bach's
D minor Partita
" ... the colouring of individual lines was as
revelatory as ever, and cross string bowing set up
gripping degrees of tension. Particularly special
was the hush as she took her instrument up into
unearthly reaches, her tone glacially, piercingly
clear."
Rimma
Sushanskaya studied with Mark Komissarov at the
world-famous Conservatory in her native Leningrad
and earned a PhD for her research into aspects of
musicianship. In 1971 she began studies with
Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatoire and went on to
capture numerous awards, including first prize at
the Prague International Competition and one of the
rarest distinctions of all - the Ysaye Medal.
Recital tours of Russia and Czechoslovakia and
acclaimed appearances with the Moscow Philharmonic
and the Czech Philharmonic followed.
She
emigrated to the USA in the late 1970s and performed
throughout the USA, Canada and Venezuela. Critics
and audiences immediately recognised the quality of
her playing
("...an
extraordinary intensity and brilliant virtuosity" -
Washington Post " ...absolutely first rank
bravura violin playing - the kind one hears from the
top few on today's concert stages." - Los
Angeles Press).
Moving
to England in 1986, her London recital debut at
Wigmore Hall in 1987 made such an impact that she
was immediately invited to perform the Tchaikovsky
Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under
Libor Pesek and with the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra under John Lubbock. Recording offers rapidly
followed, with CDs of sonatas and other works by
Prokofiev, Schnittke and Shostakovich for the
Pickwick and Chatsworth labels
Rimma plans to record the Bach Partitas
this year and, of course, pass her skills on to
talented International young musicians at the 8th
Bach & Paganini Festival for Violin Players
in Stratford-upon-Avon in August 2009.
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