【 "Talent Has Hunger"
主講人：Paul Katz
(新英格蘭音樂院大提琴教授)
日期:2018年10月25日(四)
時間:19:30~21:30
地點:北藝大音樂二館M2601
※北藝大絃樂組必到
※歡迎有興趣者前往聆聽
電影大師為大提琴大師拍紀錄片|
克利夫蘭四重奏組大提琴家的紀錄片
《天才的渴求》
著名電影導演喬什·阿倫森（Josh
Aronson）近日完成了他為前克利夫蘭四重奏組大提琴家保羅·卡茨(Paul Katz) 耗時七年拍攝的紀錄片《天才的渴求》(“Talent
Has Hunger”) 。
影片記錄了後者在波士頓新英格蘭學院教授四位天才學生的場面。
大提琴家卡茨出生於洛杉磯，在聲譽卓著的克利夫蘭四重奏組任職26年，曾隨大提琴大師格雷戈爾·皮亞蒂戈爾斯基、倫納德·羅斯、伯納德·格林豪斯（美藝三重奏組成員）和匈牙利大師亞諾什·史塔克學琴。
▼天才少年列夫·瑪穆雅在新英格蘭音樂學院隨保羅·卡茨上課
在紀錄片拍攝開始時他還是一個10歲兒童，而卡茨當時是67歲。
喬什·阿倫森在2000年曾因電影“大吵大鬧”而獲奧斯卡獎提名，他表示這部新的紀錄片所要展現的不止是琴藝的進步，而是學生為贏得自己身份而作出的奮鬥。“我所感興趣的主題是：我們是誰，我們如何發現自己。這對於一個音樂家來說是不可或缺的，”阿倫森在電話採訪中表示。
師生之間的交流始終是這部紀錄片的焦點，哪怕著名大提琴家Pieter Wispelwey的來訪也沒有作為重點加以處理。在拍攝期間，學生們都表現自然，他們似乎忘記了攝像機的存在。阿倫森說他為此付出了極大的耐心，花費了大量時間與音樂家相處才獲得了這樣的結果。
“我想讓觀眾近距離審視一位大提琴大師，”阿倫森說，“音樂會聽眾會認為他們聽到的美妙音樂是理所當然的，但演奏家需要練習一輩子才能到那個境界。我希望這部影片能糾正聽眾的看法。”
Paul Katz is
known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet,
which, during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500
appearances on four continents. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from
1969 to 1995, Katz performed at the White House and on many television shows,
including "CBS Sunday Morning," NBC's "Today Show,"
"The Grammy Awards" (the first classical musicians to appear on that
show), and in "In The Mainstream The Cleveland Quartet," a one-hour
documentary televised across the U.S. and Canada.
Katz has received
many honors, the most recent including the "Chevalier du
Violoncelle," awarded by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana
University for distinguished achievements and contributions to the world of
cello playing and teaching; The Richard M. Bogomolny National Service Award,
Chamber Music America's highest honor, awarded for a lifetime of distinguished
service in the field of chamber music; an Honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts
from Albright College; and the American String Teacher's Association
"Artist-Teacher of the Year 2003." Katz is a passionate spokesperson
for chamber music the world over, and served for six years as President of
Chamber Music America. As an author, he has appeared in numerous publications
and wrote the liner notes for the Cleveland Quartet's three-volume set of the
complete Beethoven Quartets on RCA Red Seal.
In 2011, declaring
that "our art is passed from one generation to the next, not by books but
by mentoring," Katz launched CelloBello,
a website designed to connect cellists of all ages and performance levels.
Among the site's resources are "Cello Lessons," consisting of footage
filmed in Katz's studio with NEC students; "Legacy" videos from
Katz's own mentors; and a blog coauthored by more than a dozen prominent
cellists. Through this medium, Katz is digitizing his own life experience as a
student, teacher, and artist of his instrument.
Katz has appeared
as soloist in New York, Cleveland, Toronto, Detroit, Los Angeles, and other
cities throughout North America. He was a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos
Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose. In 1962, he was
selected nationally to play in the historic Pablo Casals masterclass in
Berkeley, California. He was a prizewinner in the Munich and Geneva
Competitions and for three summers, he was a participant at the Marlboro Music
Festival.
Katz's recordings
include Dohnanyi's Cello Sonata for ProArte Records, and the Cleveland Quartet's
recording on Sony Classical of the Schubert two-cello quintet with Yo-Yo Ma.
The Cleveland Quartet has nearly 70 recordings to its credit on RCA Victor,
Telarc International, Sony, Philips and ProArte. These recording have earned
many distinctions including the all-time best selling chamber music release of
Japan, 11 Grammy nominations, Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Recording
and Best Recorded Contemporary Composition in 1996, and "Best of the
Year" awards from Time magazine and Stereo
Review.
In September of
2001, Paul Katz joined the New England Conservatory faculty, following five
years at Rice University in Houston, and twenty years of teaching at the
Eastman School of Music. At NEC, in addition to his studio, seminar teaching
and other chamber music coaching, and coaching the NEC Chamber Orchestra, he is
founder of the Professional
String Quartet Training Program. To date, this program has
enrolled six emerging quartets, all of which are now experiencing considerable
professional success, including a Grammy award for the Parker Quartet's 2010
Ligeti CD.
Katz has mentored
many of the fine young string quartets on the world's stages today including
the Ariel, Biava, Cavani, Chester, Harlem, Jupiter, Kuss, Lafayette, Maia,
Meliora, Parker, T'ang, and Ying Quartets. One of America's most sought after
cello teachers, his cello students, in addition to membership in many of the
above quartets, have achieved international careers with solo CDs on Decca,
EMI, Channel Classics and Sony Classical, have occupied positions in many of
the world's major orchestras including principal chairs as far away as Oslo,
Norway and Osaka, Japan, and are members of many American symphony orchestras
such as Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, National Symphony, Pittsburgh, Rochester,
and St. Louis.
Katz has taught at
many of the major summer music programs including twenty years at the Aspen Festival,
the Yale Summer School of Chamber Music, the Perlman Music Program, the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, ProQuartet in France, Domaine
Forget, Orford, and the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, the Steans
Institute of The Ravinia Festival, and is a Director of the Shouse Artist
Institute of the Great Lakes Chamber Festival. His hundreds of masterclasses
worldwide include many of the major music schools of North and South America,
Europe, Israel, Japan and China. Katz frequently sits on the juries of
international cello and chamber music competitions, most recently the Leonard
Rose International Cello Competition, and the international string quartet
competitions of Banff, London, Munich, Graz and Geneva.
Paul Katz plays an
Andrea Guarneri cello dated 1669.
B.M., University of Southern California; M.M.,
Manhattan School of Music; Hon. D.M.A. Albright College. Studies with Gregor
Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard Rose, and Gabor Rejto.
Recordings on ProArte, RCA Victor, Telarc, Sony, and Philips. Former faculty of
Rice University, Eastman School of Music.
