CD Phil 06020 EDICSON RUIZ / CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ /
SINFÓNICA JUVENIL TERESA CARREÑO DE VENEZUELA
WIENER KONTRABASS KONZERTE
EDICSON RUIZ double bass
SINFÓNICA JUVENIL TERESA CARREÑO DE VENEZUELA
CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ conductor
GIOVANNI SPERGER (1750-1812)
Konzert für Kontrabass und Orchester in D-Dur
FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER (1754-1812)
Konzert für Kontrabass und Orchester in D-Dur
ANTON ZIMMERMANN (1741-1841)
Konzert für Kontrabass und Orchester in D-Dur
CARL DITTERS VON DITTERDORF (1739-1799)
Konzert für Kontrabass und Orchester in Es-Dur
DE
Edicson Ruiz, 1985 in Caracas geboren, entschied sich schon im Alter von elf Jahren für den Kontrabass. Als Fünfzehnjährig war Edicson Ruiz Erster Preisträger des Internationalen Kontrabassisten-Wettbewerbes in Indianapolis/USA. Bald darauf besuchte er Kurse von Janne Saksala und wurde 2001 jüngster Stipendiat der Orchesterakademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. Hier vervollkommnete er sein Studium bei Klaus Stoll. Schon während dieser Studienzeit wurde Edicson Ruiz nach einem überzeugenden Probespiel als festes Mitglied zu den weltberühmten Philharmoniken berufen. 2002 wurde er mit dem ‚Orden José Felix Ribas‘ ausgezeichnet. Der Dirigent Christian Vásquez 1984 in Caracas geboren wird wie auch Edicson Ruiz im Rahmen des international bekannten venezolanischen Projektes ‚El Sistema‘ gefördert und hat sich zu einem der erfolgversprechendsten Talente des lateinamerikanischen Kontinents entwickelt.
EN
Born in Caracas in 1985, Edicson Ruiz was eleven when he took up the double bass, his teachers and mentors since then being Felix Petit, Janne Saksala as well as Klaus Stoll at the Berlin Philharmonic’s Orchestra Academy. His first taste of orchestral playing came with El Sistema, founded by José Antonio Abreu and formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela.
Then, aged only fifteen, Edicson was awarded first prize at the International Society of Bassists‘ competition in Indianapolis, making him the youngest winner of all time.
Just two years later he was made a member of the Berlin Philharmonic’s double bass section, becoming not only the first Latin American musician to be so honoured but also the youngest ever in the history of the orchestra. This ensemble has taken him to, amongst other venues, the Easter and Summer Festivals in Salzburg, the Berlin Festwochen as well as to festivals as far apart as Edinburgh and Beijing.
Edicson is also active as a soloist: As well as giving annual recitals among others at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Lucerne Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Chopin Festival in Warsaw he has recorded live transmissions for TV and radio in Europe, Venezuela and North America. He is a member of the Philharmonic’s Double Bass Sextet, too, and teaches in the context of the ‚zukunft@BPhil‘ education project. Compositions written for, and premièred by, him include Efrain Oscher’s ‚D K Son‘ and the Double Bass Concertos by Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne and Mexican horn player and composer Arturo Pantaleón. In 2002 the Venezuelan government honoured Edicson Ruiz with the ‚Orden José Félix Ribas‘ and, a year later, he was elected one of the Junior Chamber International’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Venezuela (TOYP).