{"id":3123,"date":"2021-06-14T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/kuenstler\/emilija-kortus\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:47:33","slug":"emilija-kortus","status":"publish","type":"knstler","link":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/kuenstler\/emilija-kortus\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilija Kortus"},"featured_media":3115,"template":"","class_list":["post-3123","knstler","type-knstler","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"name":"Emilija Kortus","subtitle":"","saison":["2021","2025"],"instrument":"Violin","beschreibung_knstler":"","website":"","colorized-image":3113,"interview":[{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Born in:","antwort":"Toronto, Kanada"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Current centre of life: ","antwort":"Berlin und Leipzig"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Instrument: ","antwort":"Violine"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Second, third or even fourth instrument: ","antwort":"Piano, but not as fit as when I was twelve."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"My career aspiration as a child: ","antwort":"I've always wanted to be a violinist."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"This was the profession my parents envisioned for me: ","antwort":"Musician (violinist) because my parents saw how much happiness music brings me."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Works or concert experiences that shaped me: ","antwort":"Works by J.S. Bach, D. Scarlatti, L.v. Beethoven, Paul Hindemith and Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe have always been the greatest pleasure for me to experience in concert, or to play myself."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Work with the greatest music-making pleasure (and why?): ","antwort":"The first violin sonata, op. 80, in F minor by Sergei Prokofiev, because behind this piece lies all of Prokofiev's genius. Of course, the pleasure of music-making should always be as great as possible for all works."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Von dieser Komponistin \/ diesem Komponisten w\u00fcnsche ich mir ein Werk f\u00fcr mein Instrument (und warum?): ","antwort":"It would be a dream for me if Miles Davis had written pieces for violin, because it would expand our repertoire incredibly much. "},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"I would get up in the middle of the night for that: ","antwort":"Catching a flying mosquito."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Special \/ curious own concert experience:","antwort":"When I played the world premiere of John Cage's \"Cheap Imitation\" for violin in 2013, other five players played other works by Cage at the same time. This concept became a beautiful mix\/work at that time and inspired me to always stay curious and open. The motto of this project was John Cage's sentence: \"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.\""},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"My most valuable tip for the next generation of musicians:","antwort":"Always look out for each other and always trust in each other."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"That's what I wish for the future of the classical music scene:","antwort":"That classical music reaches out to even more people and that we always develop new ideas."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"That's what I associate with Leipzig as a city of music: ","antwort":"Since I have been living and studying in Leipzig since 2015, I associate Leipzig with numerous study experiences, concerts (e.g. in the Thomaskirche, Schumann-Haus, Mendelssohn-Haus, etc.), and festivals that have taken place in Leipzig. Likewise, the intensive work with Ms Widmann and evenings at the Beyerhaus and Flowerpower with friends who are now family to me."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"","antwort":""}],"veranstaltungen":[6310]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knstler\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knstler"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knstler"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/6310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}