- Dene Olding
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Dene Olding (born 11 October 1956) is an Australian violinist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, performing over forty concertos in recent years, including many world premieres. He is also the co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, first violinist in the Goldner String Quartet, and a member of the Australia Ensemble.
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Biography
Dene Olding is the son of the husband and wife piano duo Max Olding and Pamela Page. In 1971, aged only 14, he attended the Juilliard School in New York as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. He graduated in 1978. He attended master classes with Nathan Milstein and had further lessons with Herman Krebbers and György Pauk.
He joined the Australia Ensemble in 1982, and was also at that time leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 1985, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to further his musical studies. During that year, he won a Bronze medal at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium.
He was concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1987 to 1994, and again since 2002. He is also a frequent guest concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Dene Olding is regularly heard as soloist with all the major Australian orchestras and has worked with conductors such as Edo de Waart, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Stuart Challender, Sir Charles Mackerras, Jorge Mester, Günther Herbig, Werner Andreas Albert and David Porcelijn.
He gave the Australian premieres of Witold Lutosławski's Chain 2 with the composer conducting, and the violin concertos by Elliott Carter and Philip Glass. In addition, he has performed world premieres of violin concertos by Ross Edwards (Maninyas, a work dedicated to Dene Olding[1]) and Bozidar Kos, and the Double Concerto for violin and viola by Richard Mills, written for himself and his wife, Irena Morozova.
He has made many recording, including one of sonatas by Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart, with his father Max Olding. His recording of Ross Edwards' Maninyas won the 1994 ARIA Award for Best Classical Recording, and the Cannes award. He made the first CD recording of concertos by Frank Martin, Darius Milhaud and Samuel Barber. He has recorded the violin concerti of Paul Hindemith with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Werner Andreas Albert.
He plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin made in 1720. In the Edwards, Martin, Milhaud and Barber recordings, he used the A. E. Smith violin he inherited from a previous Sydney Symphony concertmaster, Ernest Llewellyn.
He has conducted the Sydney Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Personal life
Olding is married to Irena Morozova, a violist with the Goldner String Quartet and the Australia Ensemble. Together they have a son, Nicolai.[2]
Olding is a practitioner of Aikido.[3]
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Categories: Australian classical violinists | Living people | 1956 births | Concertmasters
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