A £25,000 scholarship to fund study
abroad for a period of two years.
Open to musicians of any nationality between
the ages of 15 and 25,
normally residing in the UK.
The scholarship is awarded by competition
and in 2001 is open to pianists only.
Auditions will be held in London in June
2001 and the winner will be
expected to commence the period of study abroad by October 2002
Closing date for applications: 24 March
2001
For full details and application form
by email
or send a large stamped addressed envelope
to:
The Julius Isserlis Scholarship
The Royal Philharmonic Society
10 Stratford Place
London W1C 1BA
telephone [+44] 020 7491 8110
fax [+44] 020 7493 7463
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JULIUS ISSERLIS
(1888-1968)
A younger contemporary of Blumenfeld, Rachmaninov,
Medtner and Scriabin, Julius Isserlis (cellist Steven's grandfather)
was born in Kizhinev on the Rumanian border with Russia. He studied in Kiev
with Vladimir Puchalski (a Leschetizky student), and then at the Moscow
Conservatoire with Safonov, the teacher of Lhevinne, Medtner and Scriabin,
and Taneyev, disciple of Nikolai Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky. Winning the
Conservatoire's coveted Gold Medal in 1906 - though, in company with
Artur Rubinstein, Pouishnoff, and Edwin Fischer not the 1910 St Petersburg
Anton Rubinstein Piano Competition - he toured Europe and America, 1907-09,
before taking up a professorship at the College of the Philharmonic Society
of Moscow, 1913-18. After the Revolution, he went to Vienna, establishing
a reputation as pianist, pedagogue and composer. Like his emigré
compatriots Medtner and Moiseiwitsch, he settled London before the Second
World War (in 1938), taking British citizenship. Conspicuous by his omission
from The New Grove (1980), subsequently suffering from failing eyesight,
he was a frequent BBC broadcaster, specialising elegantly in the Slavonic
school. He also appeared in recital and with orchestra - though never at
the Proms. His pupils included Ruth Geiger in Vienna and the Medtner specialist
Bernard Pinsonneault in London.
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August 2000 Ates Orga, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
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