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Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Dieter Kosslick, Berlinale Director Updated: 2010-02-08 16:30:00 Description: Germany’s biggest film festival – the Berlinale celebrates it’s 60th anniversary this month. The festival is not only the city’s largest cultural event, but also one of the most important dates on the international film industry’s calendar....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Maryanne Redpath director of the Berlinale's Generation section Updated: 2010-02-01 16:30:00 Description: Since 1978 the Berlin International Film Festival has dedicated a special section to films for children and youth called "Generation". Since 2008 it has been directed by Maryanne Redpath. The New Zealander Maryanne Redpath has been living and work...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with composer Christian Jost Updated: 2010-01-25 16:30:00 Description: "I think music theatre is the most subtle and complex way to describe human beings" Born in Germany in 1963, Christian Jost studied composition, analysis and conducting in Cologne and San Francisco. His workcomprises of a growing number of impressiv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with composer Christian Jost - Part I Updated: 2010-01-18 16:30:00 Description: "I never think about the abilities of a soloist in terms of if he can do this or that - I always have a structure in my mind and I want to fulfil this" Born in Germany in 1963, Christian Jost studied composition, analysis and conducting in Cologne a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Chorographer Lloyd Newson Updated: 2010-01-11 16:30:00 Description: Newson has had a dynamic impact on contemporary dance and theatre. He has choreographed for many companies and in 1986 he formed his own company "DV8 Physical Theatre." Born in Australia, Lloyd Newson's first interest in dance started while he was ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: The Best of Inspired Minds 2009 – Part 2 Updated: 2010-01-04 16:30:00 Description: This week's programme is the second part of a compilation of highlights from 2009 Inspired Minds. Guests include: composer/trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, the best-selling crime author Robert Littell and the Rumanian violinist, Sherban Lupu. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: The Best of Inspired Minds 2009 - Part 1 Updated: 2009-12-28 16:30:00 Description: A special edition of Inspired Minds with highlights from 2009. Guests include: 101-year-old renowned American composer Elliott Carter, we also remember the late author Frank McCourt and enjoy the remarkable mezzo-soprano Anne-Sophie von Otter. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with Pianist Charles Spencer PART 2 Updated: 2009-12-21 16:30:00 Description: Spencer is renowned for his lied interpretation and has accompanied distinguished singers the likes of Jessye Norman, Thomas Quasthoff, and for over twelve years, was the pianist of Christa Ludwig. Charles Spencer is one of the world’s most sought...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with pianist Charles Spencer Updated: 2009-12-14 16:30:00 Description: "Playing for singers is something completely different to playing other chamber music – they demand a special way of being supported - this is instinctive and can’t be learnt. " Charles Spencer is one of the world’s most sought-after accompan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Pianist Lars Vogt Updated: 2009-12-07 16:30:00 Description: Lars Vogt first came to public attention after he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition. Since that time he has gone on to give major concerto and recital performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America. During...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Conductor Nicolaus Harnoncourt Updated: 2009-11-30 16:30:00 Description: On December 6th, Conductor Nicolaus Harnoncourt celebrates his 80th birthday. Described by many as a musician's musician, he is one of the most profound and intriguing conductors of our time. Considered one of the world's leading specialists of Bar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with violinist Sherban Lupu Updated: 2009-11-09 16:30:00 Description: In this week’s Inspired Minds, Sherban Lupu talks to Breandáin O’Shea about Rumania’s very special violin school, the influence of the country’s folk music and his passion for the music of George Enescu. Sherban Lupu has performed as a solo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with writer Jason Star Updated: 2009-11-16 16:30:00 Description: Jason Star first thriller "Cold Caller" came out in 1997, and he has been publishing about a book a year ever since. In his novels, Starr describes the everyday madness in urban life, often taking it to harrowing extremes. Jason Starr’s latest nove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Author Robert Littell Updated: 2009-10-31 07:05:00 Description: Littell’s latest novel “The Stalin Epigram,” is based on a riveting historical episode and is a fictional rendering of the life of the great twentieth century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Cellist Sol Gabetta Updated: 2009-10-26 16:30:00 Description: Sol Gabetta performs on one of the most rare and valuable cellos in the world built by G. B. Guadagnini in 1759. The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Argentina, the daughter of French and Russian parents. She was only ten when she won her first compet...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with author Colm Tóibín Updated: 2009-10-12 16:30:00 Description: Tóibín’s latest novel “Brooklyn” portrays the immigrant experience and the complexities of what finally makes a place home. It tells a seemingly simple tale of a young girl and her immigration from Ireland to New York. The Irish novelist an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with composer Krzysztof Penderecki Updated: 2009-10-05 16:30:00 Description: "I am very lucky that artists the likes of Jean-Pierre Rampal, Anne-Sophie Mutter or Mstislav Rostropovich liked to play my music. I like to know who I am writing my music for." The Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki studied composition at the K...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Author A S Greer Updated: 2009-09-28 16:30:00 Description: Greer's "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune - while his latest book "The Story of a Marriage" has been described by The New York Times as ascending to the heights of ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Theodor Paleologu Rumania’s Minister of Culture Updated: 2009-09-21 16:30:00 Description: Rumania has always had a strong cultural tradition and the month long George Enescu Music festival is just one example of the country’s vibrant cultural life. Theodor Paleologu has been Rumania’s Minister of Culture, Religious Affairs, and Cultu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Choreographer Royston Maldoom Updated: 2009-09-14 16:30:00 Description: For the past 30 years, Royston Maldoom has been the initiator and leader of numerous dance projects around the world. His work was especially honoured with the project “Rhythm is it”- where 250 kids danced Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring", wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with conductor John Axelrod Updated: 2009-09-07 16:30:00 Description: "Lenny (Bernstein) said to me – music is music! There is good music, there is bad music. Just do the good music and it doesn’t matter what it is!" John Axelrod was born in Texas and studied music initially at Harvard, with advanced studies wit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with the translator Ulrich Blumenbach Updated: 2009-08-31 16:30:00 Description: This month an unusual piece of American fiction finally appears in German - the novel "Infinite Jest" by the late David Foster Wallace. Ulrich Blumenbach spent six years translating this work. For many years, David Wallace’s more than a thousan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to-One With Academy Award-Winning Director Adam Elliot Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Elliot's films "Uncle," "Cousin," "Brother" and "Harvie Krumpet" have been viewed by millions of people around the world. He presented his latest film "Mary and Max" at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.Adam Elliot grew up in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Composer/Conductor George Benjamin Updated: 2009-08-17 16:30:00 Description: Benjamin’s first orchestral work was played at the BBC Proms when he was just 20 and his work," Antara" was a commission to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou centre in 1987. George Benjamin started to play the piano at the age of seven...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with baritone Alan Titus Updated: 2009-08-10 16:30:00 Description: After a four-year break Alan Titus returned to the Bayreuth Festival this year to sing Hans Sachs in Katharina Wagner’s staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Born in New York, Alan Titus studied voice at the Juilliard School. Among his earli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with the singer Michelle Breedt Updated: 2009-08-03 16:30:00 Description: In the 2009 Bayreuth Wagner festival, Michelle Breedt may be heard as Fricka, the Ring cycle and as Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde. A graduate of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Michelle Breedt started her training at the opera ho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with the late author Frank McCourt Updated: 2009-07-27 16:30:00 Description: McCourt wrote his first book “Angela's Ashes” at 66. An international best-seller, the book won many top literary accolades including the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.The world acclaimed author, Frank McCourt, died on July 19th in New York.He was...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with the singer Michael Chance Updated: 2009-07-20 16:30:00 Description: The British countertenor Michael Chance is in demand all over the world for his interpretation of male alto parts in opera, and as a recital, concert, and recording artist. Chance was a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge where he complete...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard Updated: 2009-07-13 16:30:00 Description: Aimard has championed the works of many contemporary composers the likes of Messian, Boulez and Elliott Carter and collaborated closely with György Ligeti for more than 15 years, recording his complete works The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is wide...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Composer Elliott Carter - Part 2 Updated: 2009-07-06 16:30:00 Description: 100-year-old Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as one of the leading American voices of the classical music tradition Elliot Carter has known all the great leaders of contemporary music, from Charles Ives, Edgar Varese, Aaron Copland, Str...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Composer Elliott Carter - Part 1 Updated: 2009-06-29 16:30:00 Description: 100-year-old Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as one of the leading American voices of the classical music tradition Elliot Carter has known all the great leaders of contemporary music, from Charles Ives, Edgar Varese, Aaron Copland, Str...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with writer Nuala O'Faolain Updated: 2009-06-22 16:30:00 Description: The late Irish author enjoyed much international success, and was particularly popular in Germany, where her books lingered for months on bestseller lists. “Best Love, Rosie,” her last novel written before her death, was published this month. T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with writer & filmmaker Scott Millwood Updated: 2009-06-15 16:30:00 Description: Scott Millwood recently completed a feature documentary called “Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean?”. The film tells the story of one of the first leaders of an environmental political party in the world, whose fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedde...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with opera director David Pountney Part 1 Updated: 2009-05-25 16:30:00 Description: Pountney has directed over ten world premieres, including two by renowned composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, for which he also wrote the libretto.Born in Oxford in 1947, David Pountney and was educated at Cambridge. It was a production of Janacek’s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with opera director David Pountney Part 2 Updated: 2009-06-01 16:30:00 Description: "Classical music, opera, theatre - people turn to these in times of crisis, and to some extent, times of easy prosperity are often when the arts are ignored" Born in Oxford in 1947, David Pountney and was educated at Cambridge. It was a production o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with author Charlie Huston Updated: 2009-06-08 16:30:00 Description: Author Stephen King described Huston’s writing as "one of the most exciting voices this century." Charlie Huston initially made a name for himself writing thrillers, before turning his hand to the supernatural with his series of vampire novels fe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Australian Poet Robert Gray Updated: 2009-05-18 16:30:00 Description: "I think I like to write because I discover what I think about things that way. I wouldn’t understand my own experience if I didn’t write about it." Robert Gray began writing poems while working as a journalist and, later worked in various jobs ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the pianist András Schiff – Part 2 Updated: 2009-05-11 16:30:00 Description: In 1999 Schiff founded his own chamber orchestra, "The Cappella Andrea Barca," which consists of international soloists and chamber musicians. Hungarian born András Schiff started piano lessons at the age of five. Subsequently he continued his music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the pianist András Schiff – Part 1 Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: "When I was a young man I rebelled against the music of Beethoven. I needed to reach the age of 50 to really appreciate this and now I really got the message." Hungarian born András Schiff started piano lessons at the age of five . Subsequently h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with Anne Sofie von Otter - Part 2 Updated: 2009-04-20 16:30:00 Description: The mezzo-soprano is considered one of the finest singers of her generation and is thus sought after by many of the world's major conductors, orchestras, opera and recording companies.Born in Stockholm Anne Sofie von Otter studied at the Guildhall Sc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with poet and actress Lebogang Mashile Updated: 2009-03-30 16:30:00 Description: Lebogang Mashile is much more than South Africa’s most popular poet. Indeed, former South African President Thabo Mbeki, invited her to address the nation at his inauguration. The thirty year-old actress and community organizer studied law before s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with author Michael Connelly Updated: 2009-04-06 16:30:00 Description: Connelly’s book "Blood Work" was adapted for a movie that was directed by Clint Eastwood The American writer Michael Connelly initially worked as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the US’s largest newspapers. After three years o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with crime writer Asa Larrson Updated: 2009-03-22 00:45:00 Description: Åsa Larsson made her writing debut in 2003 with the novel "Sun Storm." The book was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Association Prize for best debut novel and rights have now been sold to ten further countries. Swedish-born author Åsa Larss...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with poet and actress Lebogang Mashile Updated: 2009-03-29 00:45:00 Description: Lebogang Mashile is much more than South Africa’s most popular poet. Indeed, former South African President Thabo Mbeki, invited her to address the nation at his inauguration. The thirty year-old actress and community organizer studied law before s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Conductor Osmo Vänskä Updated: 2009-03-15 00:45:00 Description: "I had two dreams in my life – one was to become a clarinettist and the latter, to become a conductor… today, I’m pretty happy about my life " (Osmo Vänskä) Osmo Vänskä started his musical career as an orchestral clarinettist with the Turk...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to–One with Crime Writer Val McDermid Updated: 2009-03-08 00:45:00 Description: This week one of Europe's biggest literature festivals, the LitCologne, gets underway. One of the star attractions at this year's event is renowned Scottish crime writer Val McDermid. Val McDermid grew up in Scotland and studied English at Oxford U...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One–to-One With Academy Award-Winning Director Adam Elliot Updated: 2009-02-15 00:45:00 Description: Adam Elliot is one of the world's most celebrated animators. His films "Uncle," "Cousin," "Brother" and "Harvie Krumpet" have been viewed by millions of people around the world. This week he presented his latest film "Mary and Max" at the Berlinale i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-one with Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick Updated: 2009-02-22 00:45:00 Description: Germany’s biggest film festival – the Berlin International Film festival - came to a close a few days ago. In total 383 films were shown and approximately 270.000 tickets were sold – an audience record. Today we meet the event’s Director -...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with violinist Joshua Bell Updated: 2009-03-01 00:45:00 Description: Joshua Bell is internationally renowned as a great performer of contemporary and classical repertoire. He is currently on a European tour with the Minnesota Orchestra performing the Samuel Barber Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell started playing the viol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Wieland Speck, Director of the Berlinale Panorama Section Updated: 2009-09-05 00:00:00 Description: Germany’s biggest film festival, the Berlinale is underway this week. The event, which runs until the 15th of February features up to 400 films as part of the public programme, the vast majority of which are world or European premieres. Independent...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Beki Probst, Director of the European Film Market Updated: 2009-02-01 00:45:00 Description: This week the Berlin Film Festival, the Berlinale, gets underway and will run until Feb. 15. Alongside this mammoth film event is the European Film Market, which has been directed by Beki Probst since 1988. Born in Istanbul Beki Probst initially stu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Trumpeter and Composer Markus Stockhausen (Part 2) Updated: 2009-01-25 00:45:00 Description: As a trumpet soloist, improviser and composer of jazz, Markus Stockhausen feels as much at home in contemporary, as he does in classical music. But being the son of one of the world's most-renowned composers, wasn't always easy. Markus Stockhausen ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the Trumpeter and Composer Markus Stockhausen Part 1 Updated: 2009-01-18 00:45:00 Description: As a trumpet soloist, improviser and composer of jazz, Markus Stockhausen feels as much at home in contemporary, as he does in classical music. Markus Stockhausen studied piano and trumpet at the Cologne Music Academy and was the winner of the Germa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Dancer/Choreographer Gregor Seyffert Updated: 2009-01-11 00:45:00 Description: Gregor Seyffert is one of Germany’s most renowned dancer/chorographers. His productions are renowned for combining dance with acrobatics, theatre and music in some of the most unlikely performance venues. Already in 1986, while still a student at...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with mystery writer Simon Beckett Updated: 2009-01-04 00:45:00 Description: „Whispers of the Dead“, Simon Beckett’s third novel appears this month – much to the relief of his fans around the world. After an MA in English, Simon Beckett spent several years as a property repairer and played percussion in several ban...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Inspired Minds best of 2008 Part 2 with Thomas Quasthof, Minette Walters and Meow Meow Updated: 2009-09-05 00:00:00 Description: This is the second special edition of Inspired Minds where we look back at some of the highlights of the programme in 2008. Thomas Quasthof is one of Germany’s most celebrated singers. He is particularly renowned for his interpretations of lied and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with the jazz musician Klaus Doldinger Updated: 2008-12-14 00:45:00 Description: Klaus Doldinger is one of Germany’s most renowned jazz musicians and composers. He is best-known for leading the fusion band Passport for over three decades, and for his countless compositions for film and television. Doldinger’s musical career s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: The Best of Inspired Minds 2008 Part 1 with Ken Follett and Giora Feidmann Updated: 2008-12-21 00:45:00 Description: This is the first of two special editions of Inspired Minds where we look back at some of the 2008 programme highlights. We also remember one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, Mauricio Kagel who died in 2008.The composer Mauricio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with Dianne Reeves Updated: 2008-12-07 00:45:00 Description: The American jazz singer Dianne Reeves is a four-time Grammy award winner. Reeves has toured with Harry Belafonte and sang in Billy Childs' jazz band "Night Flight." More recently, Reeves starred in George Clooneys film "Good Night and Good Luck" an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with mystery writer Kate Mosse Updated: 2008-11-23 00:45:00 Description: Kate Mosses Labyrinth was a New York Times best-seller and in 2006 the UK's biggest selling title. The British author Kate Mosse, not to be confused with the model, is making a name for herself around the world with her historical mystery novel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with countertenor and conductor Ren Jacobs Updated: 2008-11-30 00:45:00 Description: You can not really understand any opera Mozart even Wagner - without knowing the music of Claudio Monteverdi - Ren Jacobs Ren Jacobs began singing as a choirboy at the cathedral of his native city of Ghent in Belgium. While studying Classic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Gail Jones Updated: 2008-11-16 00:45:00 Description: My first identifications and interest in otherness, if you like, was with Asian and Aboriginal culture, and only later with European culture through reading. So there is a sort of layering effect there that I think many Australians feel, in terms of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with composer/conductor Matthias Pintscher Updated: 2008-11-09 00:45:00 Description: Pintscher is one of Germanys most exciting young composers, whose awards include first prize in the Hitzacker Composition Competition, the Salzburg Easter Festival Composition Prize and the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the pianist Andrs Schiff Part Two Updated: 2008-11-02 00:45:00 Description: "When I was a young man I rebelled against the music of Beethoven. I needed to reach the age of 50 to really appreciate it and now I really got the message. "Hungarian born Andrs Schiff started piano lessons at the age of five . Subsequently he cont...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the pianist Andrs Schiff Part One Updated: 2008-10-26 00:45:00 Description: Among the highlights at Bonns Beethoven festival this year were two concerts featuring Andrs Schiff and his own chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca. The ensemble, which consists of international soloists and chamber musicians, was founded ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Ken Follett Updated: 2008-10-12 00:45:00 Description: Around 100 million copies of Ken Follets books have been sold world-wide. His latest book "World Without End" is the long-awaited sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth." Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1949 and graduated from University C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Frankfurt Book Fair Special One to One with Author Moris Farhi Updated: 2008-10-19 00:45:00 Description: This week the annual Frankfurt Book Fair is underway where the theme country Turkey. Moris Farhi was born in Turkey, and although he has been living in Britain for much of his life, his Turkish heritage is evident throughout his many novels, plays a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Performance Artist Meow Meow Updated: 2008-06-01 00:45:00 Description: Meow Meow has wowed audiences with her own special brand of cabaret performance art around the globe. She has just appeared at David Bowie's High Line Festival in New York, and is currently appearing to sold-out houses in Berlin. It is difficult to f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Christopher Moore Updated: 2008-06-08 00:45:00 Description: Moore is the author of nine novels, including the international best-seller "Lamb."Christopher Moores biography is wide-ranging. Before publishing his first novel, Practical Demon Keeping in 1992, he worked as a roofer, a grocery clerk, a hotel ni...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with composer/conductor Matthias Pintscher Updated: 2008-06-15 00:45:00 Description: Pintscher is one of Germanys most exciting young composers, whose awards include first prize in the Hitzacker Composition Competition, the Salzburg Easter Festival Composition Prize and the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with author Margriet de Moor Updated: 2008-06-22 00:45:00 Description: Margriet de Moor's many acclaimed books include First Gray, Then White, Then Blue, The Virtuoso, The Kreuzer Sonata and The Duke of Egypt.The acclaimed Dutch writer Margriet de Moor initially trained as a singer and pianist. She achieved earl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Ludwig Baumann Baritone and Festival Director Updated: 2008-06-29 00:45:00 Description: Baumann established the Gut Immling Opera Festival 12 years ago. Today this event presents three major opera productions each summer. Ludwig Baumann grew up on a farm, surrounded by many animals. Indeed this early aspect of his life has continued t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with singer Thomas Quasthoff Updated: 2008-07-06 00:45:00 Description: German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff is recognised as one of the most remarkable singers of his generation.Quasthoff began his vocal studies with Professors Charlotte Lehmann and Huber-Contwig in Hannover, Germany and has to date been the recipient ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Updated: 2008-07-13 00:45:00 Description: Musical America named him Instrumentalist of the Year in 2005 and he is in demand as a soloist the world over. Christian Tetzlaff is renowned for his interpretations of the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky as well as Berg, Lige...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Cory Doctorow - Author and Blogger Updated: 2008-07-20 00:45:00 Description: Cory Doctorow is a Canadian blogger, journalist and science fiction author. Among his numerous occupations, he is a co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a advocate of the Creative Com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with the pianist and composer Marc-Andr Hamelin Updated: 2008-07-27 00:45:00 Description: Hamelin is renowned for his exploration of unfamiliar piano repertoire and has performed all over the world. The Canadian Marc-Andr Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five and was just nine years old when he won the top prize in a Canadi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Turid Birkeland, Director of the Risr Festival of Chamber Music Updated: 2008-08-03 00:45:00 Description: The Risr Festival of Chamber Music was established in 1991 and is today one of the Norways most popular summer music events. For one week each summer, the sleepy seaside Norwegian village, becomes the stage for an international festival of chamber ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman, Part One Updated: 2008-08-10 00:45:00 Description: Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry conductor Leonard BersteinIt is over fifty years since the clarinettist Giora Feidman started his legendar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman, Part Two Updated: 2008-08-17 00:45:00 Description: Klezmer, Jazz, Classic - all these labels for music dont mean a thing to me its all music!This week we continue our conversation with the remarkable musician Giora Feidman.It is over fifty years since the clarinettist he started his legendary ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Singer Robert Dean Smith Updated: 2008-08-24 00:45:00 Description: The critically acclaimed Heldentenor is currently performing the title role in the Bayreuth Wagner Festival production of Tristan and IsoldeHeldentenor Robert Dean Smith studied singing at Pittsburgh State University and at New Yorks Juilliard Sch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with Ilona Schmiel, Director of Bonns Beethoven Festival Updated: 2008-08-31 00:45:00 Description: Bonns annual Beethoven Festival got underway a few days ago. The event which features 60 concerts, plus an extensive accompanying programme, has grown to become a musical highlight in the region.Ilona Schmiel initially studied music before completin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Grete Pedersen conductor of the Norwegian Soloist's Choir Updated: 2008-09-07 00:45:00 Description: The Norwegian Soloist's Choir occupies a unique position in the musical life of Norway. The ensemble has given over two hundred premier performances of which over seventy have been of works by Norwegian composers.Grete Pedersen studied at the Norwegi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with conductor Daniel Harding Updated: 2008-09-14 00:45:00 Description: At just 33 Daniel Harding is already a well established name on the concert circuit. This week he appeared at Bonns Beethoven Festival at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra, in a programme of Beethoven and Bruckner. Born in Britain in 1975 Da...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to one with peace worker Alfons Schabarum Updated: 2008-09-21 00:45:00 Description: The International Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organisations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by the United Nations in 1981 and since 2002 has been observed on September 21st....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Remembering the late Mauricio Kagel, one of the 20th centurys most influential composers Updated: 2008-09-28 00:45:00 Description: In this special programme we remember the late composer Mauricio Kagel, who died on September 18th. His compositions universally demonstrate his deep awareness of musical history, the same considered engagement with musics many meanings and its plac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Minette Walters Updated: 2008-10-05 00:45:00 Description: Minette Walters latest thriller, The Chameleons Shadow has shot to the top of bestseller charts all over the worldCrime writer Minette Walters first book The Ice House became a worldwide best-seller just months after its publication. It won the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Christopher Moore Updated: 2008-06-08 00:45:00 Description: Moore is the author of nine novels, including the international best-seller "Lamb."Christopher Moores biography is wide-ranging. Before publishing his first novel, Practical Demon Keeping in 1992, he worked as a roofer, a grocery clerk, a hotel ni...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann Updated: 2008-05-25 00:45:00 Description: The world-renowned soloist plays a Stradivarius from 1711, which once belonged to the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler.Frank Peter Zimmermann started playing the violin when he was just 5 years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the ag...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Minette Walters Updated: 2008-04-20 00:45:00 Description: Minette Walters latest novel, "The Chameleons Shadow," was published in late 2007 and already has shot to the top of best-seller charts. Crime writer Minette Walters' first book "Ice House" became a worldwide bestseller just months after its public...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Writer John Burnside Updated: 2008-04-27 00:45:00 Description: John Burnside is the author of nine collections of poetry and six works of fiction. He's achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for "The Asylum Dance," which was also short-listed for the Forward and T. S. Eliot pr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Irish author John Boyne Updated: 2008-04-06 00:45:00 Description: Boyne's novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" quickly found an audience with adults and children alike and has now been published in 18 languages. His first novel, The Thief of Time, was published in 2000 and was followed by five others including ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Cory Doctorow - Author, Journalist and Blogger Updated: 2008-03-23 00:45:00 Description: Cory Doctorow is a Canadian blogger, journalist and science fiction author. Among his numerous occupations, he is a co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a advocate of the Creative Comm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Val McDermid Updated: 2008-03-09 00:45:00 Description: McDermid has been the recipient of numerous major crime fiction awards and her work has been translated into over 30 languages The crime writer Val McDermid, grew up in Scotland, and studied English at Oxford University. She trained as a journalist ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Poet Joachim Sartorius Updated: 2008-02-24 00:45:00 Description: Dr. Joachim Sartorius is renowned as a poet and translator of works by the likes of Malcolm Lowry, Robert Gray and John Ashbery. Born in 1946 in Germany, Sartorius is the son of a diplomat and grew up in Tunis. After studying law and political scienc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Berlinale Talent Campus Director Dorothee Wenner Updated: 2008-02-10 00:45:00 Description: The filmmaker and journalist Dorothee Wenner has directed the Berlinale Campus since 2006 The Berlin International Film Festival has encouraged young filmmakers from all over the world and all professional fields to apply to the Berlinale Talent Camp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman (Part One) Updated: 2008-01-20 00:45:00 Description: "Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry" (Conductor Leonard Bernstein) It is over fifty years since the clarinettist Giora Feidman started his lege...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Architect, Curator and Author Deyan Sudjic Updated: 2008-01-13 00:45:00 Description: " I think buildings work in two ways when they are brand new then they are like a - gosh look at me - the subject of a picture postcard. But really their strongest effect - when they really change the way people think and operate - is when they are...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Conductor Helmut Rilling and the Music of Advent Updated: 2007-12-02 00:45:00 Description: " Bachs musical language is very strong and so relevant to todays world and problems "Over his career, Helmuth Rilling has become one of the most respected choral conductors in the world. He grew up in a musical family in southern Germany, where he...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Jordi Punt Updated: 2007-11-25 00:45:00 Description: Punt is considered one of the most promising new voices of contemporary Catalan literature The author Jordi Punt was born in 1967 and is currently the editor of the literary supplement, Quadern, published by the newspaper, El Pas. Having received ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One With Novelist and Biographer Nicholas Shakespear Updated: 2007-10-21 00:45:00 Description: "Life is an opera every day, with poisonings, stabbings, blood-curdling screams and deceits, then a couple of arias and a rapprochement before bed ... It is the discovery of a new region as a writer for me.Novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespear...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing Updated: 2007-10-14 00:45:00 Description: Grand Lady of Literature, British author Doris Lessing, has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize. An Inspired Minds portrait by Ulrike Sarkany and Breandin O'Shea. Doris Lessing is only the 11th woman to have won literatures most prestigious prize. T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Christian Brckner - Actor Updated: 2007-09-02 00:45:00 Description: Best-known in Germany for synchronising the voices of Robert de Niro, Burt Reynolds and Warren Beaty The actor Christian Brckner is best known in Germany for his work synchronising the voices for the films of Robert de Niro, Burt Reynolds and Warren...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor Updated: 2007-09-09 00:45:00 Description: Elgars music is such an integral part of my being that some of the most important milestones in my life are associated with performances of the major works This years Beethoven Festival in Bonn opened with a concert featuring the London Philharmon...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One on One With Iranian Author Azar Nafisi Updated: 2007-09-16 00:45:00 Description: "The young people in my country have been flogged and jailed for just wanting to dress the way they want toso they know about individual freedom."Azar Nafisi was born in Tehran in 1956. She was mainly educated abroad and at thirteen attended school ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One With Author Tash Aw Updated: 2007-09-23 00:45:00 Description: "When I started out I wanted to make sure that the entire cast of characters was Asian. That is the complete reverse of most Western novels about Southeast Asia where most of the characters are white". Tash Aw, was born in Taiwan in 1971. His parent...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: One to One with Violinist Julia Fischer Updated: 2007-09-30 00:45:00 Description: " I dont think it is always a good thing to adjust art of any kind to the listeners....the ultimate aim should be to educate and inform the listeners towards art so they are going to listen to it the way you want them to listen to it ". Julia Fis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Frankfurt Book Fair Special - One to One with Sigrid Loeffler - Literary Critic Updated: 2007-10-07 00:45:00 Description: " I think that all the interesting new ideas that are born in the world, are first expressed in books". Born in Austria in 1942 Sigrid Loeffler studied English, Philosophy, Germanistik and Pedagogic at the Vienna University. For many years Loeffler...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: James Weeks composer and conductor Updated: 2007-08-19 00:45:00 Description: I think of my work as writing-through-life: provisional conclusions at best, open-ended and experimental in spirit. James Weeks, is fast establishing himself on the British new music scene both as a composer and conductor. He was born in Britain in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Conductor Adam Fischer Updated: 2007-08-12 00:45:00 Description: I want to bring together the stage and the orchestra. Of course I dont want to change Wagners music, but I do think we conductors must utilise more freedom. And if others say - I do only what the composer wanted- it is often not authenticity, it...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Jonathan Mills - Artistic Director of the Edinburgh Festival Updated: 2007-08-05 00:45:00 Description: "If the festival is to continue to be strong, it must come up with this kind of artistic challenge for itself "Jonathan Mills was appointed Artistic director of the renowned Edinburgh festival last year. Prior to that he had been director of Melbourn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama Updated: 2007-07-29 00:45:00 Description: We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He was born in a small village in north-eastern T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Alan Britten nephew of the composer Benjamin Britten Updated: 2007-06-17 00:45:00 Description: My uncle had a great work ethic. He thought of himself as an artisan, a servant of society and composed from 9 to 5 every dayBorn in 1916, the renowned British composer Benjamin Britten was also a gifted conductor and pianist. He studied with Frank...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Updated: 2007-06-24 00:45:00 Description: " I grew up in a perhaps peculiar, even eccentric family, who sang regularly together all sorts of things from Palestrina to Schultz. It wasnt until I went away to school that I realized this was not the norm... John Eliot Gardiner was just fiftee...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Author, James Hamilton-Paterson Updated: 2007-07-01 00:45:00 Description: " Travel? Autobiography? Fiction? I suppose my writing has elements of all three. Publishers find it hard to pigeonhole me." Before James Hamilton-Paterson left Britain 25 years ago hed worked as a hospital porter and teacher. Today renowned trave...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Edward St Aubyn Updated: 2007-05-06 00:45:00 Description: "There's only ever been a two- or three-week gap between books because I'm very driven, then suddenly I had a blank phase. I'm determined to start again, but I don't really know what I'm going to write from now on."Edward St Aubyn was born in London...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Inspired Minds with Donna Leon Updated: 2007-04-07 00:00:00 Description: Theyre not translated into Italian and they wont be. Thats my choice because I do not want to live where I am famous. I think the reason I dont like it is that is creates a certain kind injustice. . . . I dont like being approached by people i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Jan Kaczmarek, composer Updated: 2007-03-22 23:25:40 Description: To write music gave me freedom of expressionInitially educated as a lawyer, Jan Kaczmarek abandoned his planned career as a diplomat to write music for what he says - finally gave him freedom of expression. His first compositions were for the high...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Soprano Joan Sutherland at 80 Updated: 2006-11-04 20:45:00 Description: "I didn't realize that I had as much top to the voice as I did have until my husband started working with me, thinking now you've gotta let top of the voice there. What are you singing mezzo-soprano for? So then changed. Not just from a secretary to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Saa Staniic Updated: 2006-10-21 19:45:00 Description: " I just took myself as an example to tell how it is to have an interrupted childhood - to wake up one morning and the first thing you hear are gunshots..."The German Book Prize was established by the German Publishers & Booksellers Trade Associa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Israeli Author Zeruya Shalev Updated: 2006-10-14 19:45:00 Description: Born in 1959 in Kibbutz Kinneret, Zeruya Shalev has spent her entire life in Israel. After a degree in biblical studies she worked as an editor for an Israeli publishing house and since the success of her second novel, the international best-seller "...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Writer, literary critic Pankaj Mishra - Frankfurt Book Fair Special Updated: 2006-10-13 21:19:01 Description: "I would like to express much more than is possible in a novel. I grew up where Buddha walked the earth, 2,500 years ago. For me, this region represents history; possibly the only one with which I feel a bond."Pankaj Mishra was born in 1969 in India....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Matthew Barley Updated: 2006-08-12 19:45:00 Description: Cellist and Music Educator Despite the fact that Matthew Barley considers his musical world to have no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries, it is cello playing that is at the centre of his career. After training at the Guildhall School of M...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Thomas Weber-Schallauer Updated: 2006-08-05 19:45:00 Description: Actor and Theatre Director Inspired Minds Austrian born Thomas Weber -Schallauer attended the Max Reinhardt Seminars in Vienna as an actor. His first professional engagement was with the Bonn Theatre, where he remained a member of the ensemble for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Sabine Krayenbhl Film Editor Updated: 2006-07-29 19:45:00 Description: " People underestimate the importance of storytelling in filmmaking" A native of Switzerland, Sabine Krayenbhl has worked in both the United States and Europe editing documentaries and features. She is a graduate of the renowned Tisch School of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Screen Writer Fred Breinersdorfer Updated: 2006-06-10 19:45:00 Description: Fred Breinersdorfer is a multi-talented writer who for many years also held down a demanding day job. Breinersdorfer studied law and began practicing his trade specialising in constitutional and administration law. Five years later, he published ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired Minds: Author Craig Russell Updated: 2006-04-22 19:45:00 Description: Craig Russell has been a freelance writer since 1990, but it was as the author of the Jan Fabel series of thrillers, that he has achieved international acclaim. Russell was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1956. He has served as a police officer and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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