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Refimprove|date=January 2012 Axel Strauss is a German violin ist, and a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music .
At the age of seventeen he won the silver medal at the George Enescu Festival|Enescu Competition in Romania and has been recognized with many other awards, including top prizes in the Bach, Wieniawski and Kocian competitions. He studied at the Music Academies of Lübeck and Rostock with Petru Munteanu. Strauss has been residing in the United States since 1996 when he began working with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School and became her teaching assistant in 1998.
He was the he first German artist to ever win the international Walter W. Naumburg Foundation|Naumburg Violin Award in New York. In 2007, he was the violinist in the world premiere of "Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby", written for him by composer Aaron Jay Kernis .
His recordings include the Violin Concerto (Brahms)|Brahms violin concerto (BPOlive), Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words ( Naxos Records|Naxos ), the violin version of the Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)|Clarinet sonatas , op. 120, by Brahms (Organum) and the duo for violin and cello, op. 7, by Zoltán Kodály (Oehms Classics). In December 2009, Naxos released his recording of the 24 Caprices by Pierre Rode . Amadeus Press has issued a DVD featuring Strauss in concert at Steinway Hall , New York. His chamber music partners include Menahem Pressler , Kim Kashkashian , Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann and Bernard Greenhouse .
Strauss performs on a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda , Turin 1845.
References
http://www.axelstrauss.com/ Axel Strauss Personal Website
http://www.sfcm.edu/faculty/strauss.aspx San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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