Draft:Stefan Burchardt

Stefan Burchardt (born the 21. April 2003) is a Danish violinist and winner of Danish Radio’s TV-program: “Vidunderbørn” 2017.

Biography
Stefan Burchardt was born in Odense into a musical family.

Burchardt started playing the violin and piano at the age of 4. When he was 5 years old he started having lessons with the Ukrainian violin-teacher and professor Alexandre Zapolski in Copenhagen. Burchardt has lessons with Zapolski for almost 10 years before, he started his MGK at the age of 13 at the Copenhagen Music school with Zapolski.

Before Burchardt had turned 15, he was already known in the classical music scene in Denmark as he had won several national and international competitions and prizes such as first prizes at the Bravo! International competition in Belgium and the Flame Concours, Paris in France as well as national competition such as the Jacob Gade and Berlingske violin competition. In fact Burchardt was and is still to this day the youngest person to win both the 1st prize and the Gold prize that is only give out to one of the four winners of the 1st prize across all of the categories in the competition, at only 12 years old.

He gave his solo debut with the Odense Symphony orchestra playing Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto no. 1 at the age of 7. Since then, he has performed many of the major concertos in the violin repertoire, including the major violin concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, and Max Bruch. He has performed with orchestras such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony orchestra and the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra.

In 2017 he was a part of Danish Radio’s TV-program: “Vidunderbørn” 2017 where the program followed 5 different young musicians for 3 months. At the end of the program, which was moderated by Søren Rasted, the viewers got to decide who would be pronounced “Wonderkid” of Denmark. Stefan Burchardt won this competition and was pronounced “Wonderkid” of Denmark 2017 at the age of 14.

In 2019 at the age of 15 Burchardt moved to Berlin where he was accepted and started his studying his Bachelor’s at Berlin university of arts with Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg. The same year, 2019, he won 1st prize at Jugend Musiziert in Germany and was the same year awarded the Hermann Abs-Prize for the best interpretation of a piece by L. V. Beethoven, where he was invited to play in the "Beethoven Haus" Hall in Bonn, Germany. The concert was recorded and broadcast on German radio by WDR for the “Beethoven Year 2019”.

Other prizes and competitions include the Øresund Soloist competition and the “Hans-Schauble” Award in 2020. He was also a finalist at the international E. Ysaye Violin competition in Liege, Belgium.

Burchardt has also been featured at festivals such as the at the Kronberg Academy, Aurora Festival, and Encuentro de Santander. As an enthusiastic chamber musician, he has performed a wide variety of chamber music pieces and collaborated with well-established musicians such as Hartmut Rohde, Bruno Philippe, Ensemble Midtvest, Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Alissa Margulis.

Burchardt is currently playing on a violin by the german luthier Stefan-Peter Greiner given to him on loan by the Augustinus Foundation.

Burchardt has attended masterclasses at places such as the Kronberg Academy and with prominent teachers such as Dora Schwarzberg, Pavel Vernikov (Vienna), Zakhar Bron, Olivier Charlier (Paris Conservatoire), Maciej Rakowski (Royal College, London), Alf Richard Kraggerud (Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt, Oslo), Malin Broman (Stockholm, Sweden) amongst others.

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