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Volodja Balzalorsky
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Ljubljana, Europe
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The Canary Islands Music Award 2007: Best Interpretation-instrumental (Sonata by Cesar Franck

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"AMG - All Music Guide": CD Review "Volodja Balzalorsky Live in Concert Vol. 3: (Live in Maribor)"- New Cantabel Productions Release
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Influences
In the beginning, my way to become classical violinist was not conventional. When I was 13, I was listening the bands like:
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Santana, Frank Zappa, later also U2, Sting, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Quinci Jones, Bob Dylan,

and than more and more also jazz:
Miles Davies, Wes Montgomery, Herbie Hancock, Modern Jazz Quartet, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Smith Weather Report, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Diana Ross, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Grapelli, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Ron Carter Dave Holland , Jack DeJohnette Duke Ellington, Jean Luc Ponty.

In 1969 I got the LP by The Flock with the violinist Jerry Goodman. I was so impressed with the band and this way of violin playing, that I began to practice violin more. So I came slow and slow to decision, being professional musician. The classical music became more and more important for me - from baroque to contemporary!

Influences of classical music performers and conductors:
Oistrakh, Heifetz, Stern, Menuhin, Kreisler, Elman, Kogan, Kremer, Perlman, Suk, Zuckerman, Rabin, Horowitz, Callas, Django Reinhardt, Domingo, Pavarotti, Carerras, Rostropovich, Toscanini, Karajan, Maazel, Emil Gilels, Pollini, Amadeus Quartet, Jo Jo Ma, Melos Quartet, Lazar Berman, Borodin Quartet, Alman Berg Quartet, Beaux Art Trio, Suk Trio, Brendel, Renee Fleming and in the last period also younger performers like Maxim Vengerov, Anne Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, Trio Wanderer.

Composers: Mozart , JS Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Wagner, Brahms, Charles Ives,, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Copland, Mahler, , Stockhausen, Schoenberg, Glass, John Adams, Alban Berg, John Cage, Leos Janacek, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Henryk Gorecki, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Zorn, Uros Rojko, Vinko Globokar, Janez Maticic, Ennio, Morricone, John Williams, Bill Conti.

Other influences: Goethe, Preseren, Picasso, Kandinsky, Da Vinci, Thomas Mann, Dostoevsky, Chehov, Shakespeare, DeNiro, Pacino, Brando, Laurence Olivier, Hopkins, Kubrik, Leone, Kusturica


Sounds Like
To find my own expression in sound, it was for me always very important to listen to other great performers like
Oistrakh, Heifetz, Stern, Menuhin, Kreisler, Elman, Kogan, Kremer, Perlman, Suk, Zuckerman, Rabin, Horowitz, Callas, Django Reinhardt, Domingo, Pavarotti, Carerras, Rostropovich, Toscanini, Karajan, Maazel, Emil Gilels, Pollini, Amadeus Quartet, Jo Jo Ma, Melos Quartet, Lazar Berman, Borodin Quartet, Alman Berg Quartet, Beaux Art Trio, Suk Trio, Brendel, Renee Fleming and in the last period also younger performers like Maxim Vengerov, Anne Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, Trio Wanderer.

It was also very importat to listen to the music written by composers of all epochs like Mozart , JS Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Wagner, Brahms, Charles Ives, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Copland, Mahler, , Stockhausen, Schoenberg, Glass, John Adams, Alban Berg, John Cage, Leos Janacek, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Henryk Gorecki, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Zorn, Uros Rojko, Vinko Globokar, Janez Maticic, Ennio, Morricone, John Williams, Bill Conti,
listen to the bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Santana, Frank Zappa, later also U2, Sting, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Quinci Jones, Bob Dylan,

and also listen to jazz like
Miles Davies, Wes Montgomery, Herbie Hancock, Modern Jazz Quartet, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Smith Weather Report, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Diana Ross, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Grapelli, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Ron Carter Dave Holland , Jack DeJohnette Duke Ellington, Jean Luc Ponty.



Record Label Cantabel Productions / Eroica Classical Recording
Type of LabelIndie


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Volodja Balzalorsky from Ljubljana, Slovenia, performs internationally as a solo violinist, recitalist, and chamber musician, for which he consistently receives outstanding acclaim.
Numerous highly praised concerts, broadcasts, CD and TV recordings in various countries, have established Volodja Balzalorsky's reputation as an artist with a sensitive, intelligent, and intuitive gift of interpretation, a polished technique, and a rich, full tone.

He is Professor of Violin at the Music Academy of Ljubljana University, Slovenia, member of Amael Piano Trio, Artistic Director of Ensemble Ouverture and Artistic Director of Festival Spectrum

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HIGHLIGHTS:

...Winner of The Inland Empire Music Award 2008 - Best International Artist

...Winner of The Ontario Independent Music Award 2007-Best International Artist

... Winner of The Canary Islands Music Award 2007: Best Interpretation-Instrumental

... The Los Angeles Music Award 2007 - Nominee - classical

... Performer of the week on National Radio of Slovenia
- January 21-28 2007

... Betetto Music Award 2006 - the highest Music Award in Slovenia....


... Just Plain Folks Music Award 2006 Nomination Classical-Best Album in Chamber Music

Latest Review: "AMG - All Music Guide": CD Review "Volodja Balzalorsky Live in Concert Vol. 3: (Live in Maribor)"
by James  Leonard
...Balzalorsky is an intelligent artist with sweet tone and a smooth technique. Balzalorsky's Dvorák Sonatina is delightful and soulful, his Debussy Sonata is light and ethereal, his Paganini Cantabile is ripe and tender, and his Srebotnjak Sonata No. 1 is powerful and persuasive.
Balzalorsky's performances are easily in the same league as many of the better international performances of the past 20 years and well worth hearing...


"New York Concert Review" by Edith Eisler
Amael Piano Trio is a veryfine group. The stringplayer’s intonation in impeccable, their tone is rich, beautiful and homogeneous and can vary from floating delicacy to vibrant full bodied sonorousness….A large multi-national audience rewarded the performers with warm approval and prolonged ovations.



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Nov 11 2009 9:16 PM

Hey Volodja, thanks for the friendship! Listen to my new song "Mr. Chameleon". Keep rockin'! Alex
 


 

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Nov 8 2009 12:00 AM

We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it.
Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago

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