Barry Douglas

巴里·道格拉斯(Barry Douglas)是一位優(yōu)秀的鋼琴家、出色的指揮家，并擔任幾個音樂節(jié)的藝術(shù)總監(jiān)。
　　巴里·道格拉斯1960年出生在北愛爾蘭的貝爾法斯特，兒時學習過多種樂器。與其他鋼琴家自幼就苦練琴技所不同，道格拉斯直到16歲時才開始主攻鋼琴，兩年后考入英國皇家音樂學院。由于當時北愛爾蘭高水平的音樂演出比較少，來到倫敦后的道格拉斯便如饑似






渴地吮吸著各式各樣的音樂文化。他回憶當年在等到一張退票后，走進科文特花園皇家歌劇院觀看了瓦格納的歌劇《女武神》，今天仍然感觸頗深：“那個晚上改變了我的一切，音樂中的人聲、音樂中偉大的力量，令我感到震撼”。
　　1983年，巴里·道格拉斯在阿瑟·魯賓斯坦國際鋼琴比賽中贏得第二名，兩年后又在第七屆范·克萊本國際鋼琴大賽中獲得季軍。在取得一系列優(yōu)秀的成績之后，巴里·道格拉斯仍然繼續(xù)刻苦鉆研琴藝，終于在1986年7月摘取第八屆柴科夫斯基國際鋼琴比賽桂冠，這也是自1958年美國鋼琴家范·克萊本奪冠后，28年來第二位獲此殊榮的西方鋼琴家。巴里·道格拉斯從此蜚聲國際樂壇。
　　巴里·道格拉斯最擅長演奏浪漫派作曲家篇幅宏大的作品，尤其是勃拉姆斯、拉赫瑪尼諾夫、柴科夫斯基的作品。同時，他也經(jīng)常演奏一些較少被搬上舞臺的曲目，如雷吉、布里頓、潘德列茨基的作品。
　　近年來，或彈奏，或指揮，巴里·道格拉斯每年都要舉辦近百場音樂會。在過去的兩個音樂季里，雅爾維指揮阿姆斯特丹皇家音樂廳管弦樂團、尤里·特米爾卡諾夫執(zhí)棒圣彼得堡愛樂樂團，法蘭克福交響樂團、慕尼黑交響樂團、利物浦皇家愛樂樂團、樸恩茅斯交響樂團、英國廣播交響樂團、英國廣播公司威爾士國家交響樂團等先后與他合作。他還在都柏林、莫斯科、那不勒斯、圣彼得堡、多倫多、日本等地舉辦鋼琴獨奏音樂會，受到當?shù)赜^眾的熱烈歡迎。評論說“巴里·道格拉斯是一位富有激情，充滿了豐富想象力的音樂家”。在近日在倫敦舉行的一場獨奏會后，英國《每日電訊報》評論道：“他的演奏引人矚目，富有啟迪性，同時其中還充滿了色彩與變化的亮點”。
　　巴里·道格拉斯錄制了大量優(yōu)秀的唱片，其中布里頓、德彪西、拉赫瑪尼諾夫等作曲家的作品都廣受好評。2005年，他與愛爾蘭卡梅拉塔室內(nèi)樂團錄制了貝多芬鋼琴協(xié)奏曲全集。
　　不久前，道格拉斯出任在曼徹斯特舉辦的2006國際鋼琴藝術(shù)節(jié)藝術(shù)總監(jiān)，其間他與多位藝術(shù)家一起彈奏了莫扎特的全部鋼琴協(xié)奏曲，以紀念這位偉大的作曲家誕辰250周年。
　　由于巴里·道格拉斯在音樂方面所作的巨大貢獻，2002年，他榮獲“大英帝國軍官勛章”?，F(xiàn)在，他與家人定居在巴黎。
　　Barry Douglas
　　The pianist Barry Douglas is equally comfortable as concerto performer, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and festival director; he is a passionate and imaginative musician.
　　Barry Douglas was born in 1960 in Belfast of Northern Ireland. And he had learned many kinds of instruments in his childhood. It’s difference from others, when Barry Douglas paid attention to piano he had been already 16 years old.In 1978, he studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Britain. Arrived London, once he managed to get slips tickets to Covent Garden to see Wagner’s Die Walkure conducted by Gotz Friedrich. He remembered after several years：”That evening changed everything for me: the voice, the power of music — I was deeply affected.” In 1983, Douglas won the runner-up at the Arturo Rubinstein International Piano Competition. After two years, at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition he won the third place. In 1986, Barry Douglas won the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, it’s for the second time the gold metal was won by pianist from western country since Van Cliburn in 1958. Then he began to enjoy a major international career which has developed worldwide.
　　He is known for his performances of the large-scale Romantic repertoire, particularly Brahms, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky and he also excels in less familiar repertoire such as those by Reger, Britten, Corigliano and Penderecki.
　　Nowadays, Barry Douglas holds almost 100 concerts per year, either as a pianist or a conductor.Highlights of the past two seasons include his debut on subscription with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Paavo J?rvi (he returns to the Concertgebouw this season with Ivan Fischer), Dallas Symphony / Alsop, Ulster Orchestra / Fischer, St Petersburg Philharmonic / Yuri Temirkanov, Sydney Symphony / Simone Young, Frankfurt Radio, Munich Radio, RAI Torino, Netherlands Radio Symphony and several UK appearances with the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bournemouth Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He also toured Europe and the US in recital with visits to Dublin, Moscow, Naples, Palermo, St Petersburg, Seville, Torino, Zagreb, an extensive tour in the USA and, at the end of last season, a tour of Japan.
　　Recently, Barry Douglas is the new Artistic Director of the 2006 International Piano Festival to be held at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester(21—26 March). In the festival, he and specially chosen pianist colleagues were playing all of Mozart’s piano concertos. Founded in 2000, the festival is one of the world's foremost expositions of the piano with a proven track-record for spectacular and innovative projects developed in association with the Bridgewater Hall's three resident orchestras the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata.
　　Barry Douglas received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year’s Honours List for services to music. He has houses in Paris and Lurgan and he is married with three young children.
　　After a recent London recital, The Daily Telegraph wrote "his playing here served as a reminder of a style that is gripping but at the same time shot through with perceptive touches of colour and inflection."
Barry Douglas's personal site:http://www.barry-douglas.com/