Julius Aria Sahbai
Julius Aria Sahbai was born in 1983 in St. Gallen, switzerland as son of Prof.DDr.Manuchehr Sahbai, conducter and solo oboist and the Violinist Shahin Sahbai (Assadnia) and received his first violin lessons at the age of seven from his mother.
His musical talent and affinity for the violin were rapidly evident. In
less than two years he played his first solo concerto with an orchestra. Thereafter he began comprehensive studies as a young student at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg i. Br. and later in Bern, Zurich,Vienna and lugano.
Through his acquaintance with Massimo Quarta, Boris Belkin, Ida Haendel, Emanuel Borok,
Boris Garlitsky, Walery Gradow, Valerij Klimov, Mikhail Kopelman, Isaac
Malkin and Vadim Repin he has at his disposal all merits of the Russian
school with its incomparable precision, expression and perfection.
Among numerous music prizes and awards, Julius Aria Sahbai has received
the first prize of the Schweizerischer Jugend musikwettbewerb three
times. He is an international prize-winner as well, for example of the Concursul
International de Muzica in Bucharest in 1999.
His first CD with the Philharmonic
Orchestra Plovdiv featuring works of Mendelssohn and Beethoven was recorded and
produced when he was 14. As Swiss finalist at the 11e Grand Prix Eurovision,
this promising young talent interpreted Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which
was broadcast live by many European radio and TV stations. Besides the
famous classic and romantic concertos, his broad repertoire
includes contemporary works, several of which have been dedicated to
him.
At his youthful age, his concert activities have taken him
to major world music centres and festivals, among them as a soloist
with the Süd West deutsche Philharmonie, Symphonisches Orchester Zürich
Camerata Slovacca, Neues Orchester Basel, Tonkunstler
Vorarlberg, Camerata Transsylvanica Budapest, Armenian String Virtuosi
and Bomische Kammerphilharmonie, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,
Bulgarian State Philharmonic and many others. Numerous concerts, accompanied by
euphoric reviews, document the young artist's exceptional status.
George Hofmann
