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Valter Dešpalj
Valter Dešpalj
Valter Dešpalj
Background information
Born1947
OriginZadar, Croatia
Occupation(s)Cellist, Pedagogue
Instrument(s)Cello

Valter Dešpalj (born 1947) is cellist and a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music.[1]

Early years

Dešpalj was born in Zadar, Croatia to Albanian parents and graduated from the Juilliard School (cello with L. Rose, chamber music with F. Galimir and Juilliard Quartet[2]). He also took master classes with P. Casals, P. Fournier and A. Navarra, and did two years of postgraduate study with G. Kozolupova at the Moscow Conservatory.

Career

Dešpalj has performed all over the world, including performances at festivals in Gstaad,[3] Lockenhaus,[4] Kuhmo[5] and Dubrovnik also in some of the most prestigious concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam′s Concertgebouw, Moscow Conservatory Hall etc. He was soloist with orchestras including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Orchestra, Washington National Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony and others, under baton of eminent conductors such as Roberto Benzi,[6] Sergiu Comissiona, James Conlon, Vernon Handley, Günther Herbig, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Andrzej Markowski, David Zinman and others. Among his chamber music partners were Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Heinrich Schiff, Philippe Entremont, Yuri Bashmet, Tabea Zimmermann, Irena Grafenauer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Alexandre Rabinovitch.

Teaching

A steady stream of international competition winners have come from Despalj's classes. Besides teaching in Zagreb, he has also been a guest professor at the conservatories in The Hague, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Graz (University of Music),[7] editor of cello music with major music publishers, and member of judging panels at the most prestigious international competitions including Tchaikovsky (Moscow), Bach (Leipzig) and ARD (Munich) competitions.

In 2010, Dešpalj was named by the Croatian Parliament into the distinguished committee that awards the Vladimir Nazor Awards.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "'Šišmiši' i Obiteljski radio Dešpalju u čast". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
  2. ^ http://www.juilliardstringquartet.org/
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2008-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.kammermusikfest.at/
  5. ^ "Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2007". Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  6. ^ http://www.robertobenzi.com/english/biographie.html
  7. ^ http://info.kug.ac.at/englisch/aboutus_e.shtml
  8. ^ "Prijedlog odluke Odbora za izbor, imenovanja i upravne poslove o imenovanju predsjednika i članova Odbora "Nagrade Vladimir Nazor"" (in Croatian). Croatian Parliament. 2010-02-26. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
  9. ^ "Članovi Odbora "Nagrade Vladimir Nazor"" (in Croatian). Ministry of Culture (Croatia). Retrieved 2011-07-02.
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