Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship
In memory of Boris Pergamenschikow, the great artist, dedicated teacher and wonderful person, the Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship will be awarded every two years during the cello masterclasses in Kronberg. The first award will be made during the 2004 masterclasses. In his extraordinary commitment to his pupils and other young cellists, Boris Pergamenschikow sought only the young musicians' artistic and personal potential and ways to best help and support them. The student's financial possibilities were irrelevant. The regular award of this scholarship honours his involvement for others as well as his great teaching achievements.
Recipients of the Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship should in the first instance be young, talented cellists whose circumstances and further development would be significantly alleviated by financial support.
The financial provisions of the fund cannot at present be accurately stated. The aim of the scholarship, as agreed with his widow, Tatjana Pergamenschikow, is to provide a substantial grant. Members of a committee will suggest candidates and decide jointly on the recipient of the scholarship.
The committee members are:
Tatjana Pergamenschikow
Raimund Trenkler, Director of the Kronberg Academy
Christhard Gössling, Director of the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin
a former pupil of Boris Pergamenschikow.
Their intent is to make their selections and take decisions as Boris Pergamenschikow would have wished.
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Donations are cordially requested:
Kronberg Academy
Taunus Sparkasse Kronberg Account no. 55 089 159 Bank sorting code 512 500 00
Please mark the donation 'Boris Pergamenschikow Stipendium'. Donors will naturally receive a tax-deductible receipt.
The Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin will support the Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship, established by the Kronberg Academy, by donating the proceeds from the Boris Pergamenschikow memorial concert on 25th May, 2004.
Boris Pergamenschikow, was born in Leningrad. He studied cello with Prof. Emmanuel Fischmann and composition at the Leningrad Conservatory. He won many first prizes at national and international competitions, such as the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Prague Spring Competition. From 1970, Boris Pergamenschikow gave concerts in the most important concert halls of the former USSR and other Eastern bloc countries. After his emigration in 1977, he took on a position as tutor at the Academy of Music in Cologne, and intensified his concert activities. Guest performances at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival and the Berlin and Vienna Festivals followed, as well as performances with renowned international orchestras. Boris Pergamenschikow had worked with Claudio Abbado, Henri Dutilleux, Gidon Kremer, Witold Lutoslawski, Yehudi Menuhin, Krysztof Penderecki, Mstislav Rostropovich, András Schiff, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Sandor Végh and with the Amadeus and Alban Berg quartets. Since 1980, Boris Pergamenschikow had given masterclasses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Britain, Argentina and Japan. From1980-94 he was professor of cello at the Cologne Academy of Music. In 1987/88 he also held a professorship at the Musikakademie in Basle. In 1991 he founded the European Chamber Music Association to promote musical dialogue between young artists from East and West. From 1990-95 he organised the FINALE chamber music festival in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall. In 1994 he renounced his full-time teaching position and took on a part-time post as tutor instead. Boris Pergamenschikow taught from 1998 at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin as professor of cello. Boris Pergamenschikow died on 30th April, 2004 after a long illness. In memory of him the Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship for talented young cellists was established by the Kronberg Academy.