Sophia JAFFé
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Born in a musical family in Berlin, Sophia Jaffé has given public performances from the age of seven and has received various prizes at national and international violin competitions, including 2003 Leopold Mozart competition in Augsburg, 2004 Concours de Genèva. In 2005, she won the German Music Competition Berlin and the third prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
As a soloist and chamber musician, she plays concerts and recitals at music festivals such as, Rheingau Musik-Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, Flaneries Musicals de Reims (France), Moravian Autumn. Her concerts brought her, besides European countries, also to Chile, Japan and USA. Sophia Jaffé has appeared in the London Cadogan Hall, in Jerusalem, Prague Rudolfinum a Shenzhen (China), Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg (Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg) and Konzerthaus Wien (Bruckner Orchester Linz).
Sophia Jaffé regularly cooperates with numerous European orchestras and conductors, such as the Radio Orchestra Berlin (Marek Janowski), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Dennis Russell Davies), Hallé Orchestra Manchester (Rory Macdonald), National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium (Gilbert Varga), Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin (Lothar Zagrosek), Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague (Vladimír Válek), Czech Philharmonic (Leoš Svárovský) and I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone).
Forthcoming concerts include the Symphonie Orchester Basel and D. R. Davies, RSO Berlin and Marek Janowski, Metropolitan State Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and a tour with the Brno Philharmonic to Japan.
As a prizewinner of the German Music Council, in 2009 the label Genuin classics released her CD with music by Beethoven, Bartók and Suk, with piano accompaniment by Björn Lehmann.
Sophia Jaffé was first taught by her parents Nora and Abraham Jaffé. She later received lessons from Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam and studied with Stephan Picard 1998-2006 at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Since 2006 Sophia has been teaching the violin there.
Née dans une famille de musiciens à Berlin, Sophia Jaffé accomplit sa formation musicale à Amsterdam auprès de Herman Krebbers, et dans sa ville natale au Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" auprès de Stephan Picard. Elle remporte divers prix, dont le 3e Prix aux Concours Internationaux de Genève et Leopold Mozart d’Augsbourg. Elle donne son premier concert à l’âge de sept ans à la Salle philharmonique de Berlin, et s’est produite depuis en récital ou avec orchestre dans différentes villes d’Europe, au Chili et aux États-Unis. Depuis 2006, elle est professeur de violon au Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin.
Sophia Jaffé, stammend uit een muzikale familie, studeert in Berlijn bij Stephan Picard en in Amsterdam bij Herman Krebbers. Tussen 1994 en 2005 behaalt ze diverse prijzen, waaronder de derde prijs van het internationaal concours van Genève en de wedstrijd Leopold Mozart in Augsburg. Op zevenjarige leeftijd staat ze op de planken van de Philharmonie van Berlijn en sindsdien is ze vaak in recital of met orkest te horen in vele Europese steden, in Chili en de Verenigde Staten. Sinds 2006 onderwijst ze viool aan de Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin.
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