Irma Kliauzaitė
Irma Kliauzaitė (also known as Irma Kliauzaitė-Franc) is a Lithuanian pianist settled in Austria. She has performed internationally. Kliauzaite graduated in the Salzburg's Mozarteum in 1996, and was decorated the Mozarteum Foundation's Bernhard Paumgartner-Medal. She has also been awarded the Bösendorfer Prize.
Life
[edit]Kliauzaitė was born in Lithuania.[1] She studied piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, graduating in 1996, under Professors Peter Lang and Alexei Lubimov. She was awarded the Mozarteum Foundation's Bernhard Paumgartner Medal.[1] She has also been awarded the Bösendorfer Prize.[1]
Kliauzaitė has taken master classes from a number of notable teachers, including Lazar Berman, Dimitri Bashkirov, Germaine Mounier, Aldona Dvarionaite, Lev Wlasenko and Barbara Hesse-Bukovska.[1] She teaches at the Mozarteum.[1]
In 1999 she won first place in the Salzburg International Mozart Competition (Internationaler Mozartwettbewerb Salzburg).[2] Later that year she played at the inaugural “Nel nome di Mozart” (In the name of Mozart) festival in Milan, led by Romolo Gessi.[2]
Kliauzaitė took second prize in the I International M.K. Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition in 1992, but won the special prize for the best interpretation of Čiurlionis' works.[3][4]
In May 2021 Kliauzaitė performed at the jubilee Thomas Mann Festival in Nidau.[5] The performance had been postponed from the previous year due to COVID-19 restrictions. Kliauzaitė performed with South Korean violinist Wonji Kim-Ozim, and their programme included Dvořák's Romantic Pieces, Op. 75, Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Saint-Saëns’ “Havanaise”, Op. 83.[6] A reviewer described the pair as “Kliauzaitė is a very reliable partner, a stable foundation for an equal duet, on which the music of violinist W. Kim-Ozim revealed itself extremely beautifully”.[6]
| Year | Competition | Prize | Ex-aequo with... | 1st prize winner |
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| 1991 |  VII Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Vilnius |
2nd prize |  Ohad Ben-Ari
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| 1999 |  VII Wolfgang A. Mozart, Salzburg |
1st prize |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Irma Kliauzaitė-Franc - Universität Mozarteum". www.moz.ac.at. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
- ^ a b "Inaugurato dal triestino Gessi un festival su Mozart a Milano". Il Piccolo di Trieste. 1999-10-26. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
- ^ "Winners of the previous Competitions (pianists) - M. K. Čiurlionis Competitions". ciurlionis.link. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
- ^ "Čiurlionio pirmojo konkurso laureatai". Draugas the Lithuanian Worldwide Daily. 1991-10-10.
- ^ "The Jubilee Thomas Mann Festival Will Invite You to Look Beyond Temporary Challenges". Thomo Manno kultūros centras | Thomo Manno kultūros centras. 2021-05-24. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
- ^ a b "Ėjimas pakrante". www.7md.lt (in Lithuanian). 2021-09-03. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
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