{{Short description|Slovenian classical violinist (1931–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Igor Ozim | image = Igor Ozim.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1931|5|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Ljubljana]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|3|23|1931|5|9|df=y}} | death_place = [[Salzburg]], Austria | restingplace = | occupation = Violinist | yearsactive = | spouse = | children = }}
'''Igor Ozim''' (9 May 1931 – 23 March 2024) was a Slovenian classical violinist and [[Pedagogy|pedagogue]]. He was based in [[Salzburg]], Austria.
==Life and career== Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in [[Ljubljana]]. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At age 5, he started private lessons with {{ill|Leon Pfeifer|sl}}, a former student of [[Otakar Ševčík]], at the [[Academy of Music, Ljubljana]]. He entered Pfeifer's class at the Academy when he was 8.<ref name=camp>[https://books.google.com/books?id=az7s2k8BFRgC&dq=igor+ozim&pg=PT177 Margaret Campbell, ''The Great Violinists'']; accessed 28 September 2015</ref>
In 1949 he was awarded a [[British Council]] scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. He spent three months at the [[Royal College of Music]] learning the [[Edward Elgar|Elgar]] [[Violin Concerto (Elgar)|Violin Concerto in B minor]] under one of its greatest exponents, [[Albert Sammons]],<ref name=camp/> followed by two years study with [[Max Rostal]].<ref name=camp/>
In 1951 Ozim won the [[International Carl Flesch Violin Competition]], making his [[Wigmore Hall]] debut recital shortly afterwards.<ref name=camp/> His concerto debut was the [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]] [[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto in E minor]], with the [[Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra]] under [[Hugo Rignold]].<ref name=camp/>
In 1953 he won the [[ARD International Music Competition]] in [[Munich]].<ref name=mart>[http://www.violinwettbewerb-marteau.de/en/home.html International Violin Competition Henri Marteau]; [http://www.violinwettbewerb-marteau.de/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Wettbewerbsbroschuere.pdf Competition booklet 2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925090938/http://www.violinwettbewerb-marteau.de/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Wettbewerbsbroschuere.pdf |date=25 September 2015}}; www.violinwettbewerb-marteau.de accessed 28 September 2015</ref>
Ozim returned to his home country to play many concerts. He also toured widely through Europe, the Soviet Union, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East. [[File:Igor Ozim playing the violin (April 2013).jpg|thumb|Ozim performing for [[G. Henle Verlag]] in 2013]] He had a repertoire of around 60 violin concertos and many chamber music works. He gave many first performances and was the dedicatee of many works. The [[Berlin Philharmonic]], the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra]] are some of the many orchestras he played with.<ref name=mart/>
Ozim gave [[master class]]es in many countries, and was later based at the [[Mozarteum University of Salzburg|Mozarteum]] in [[Salzburg]], Austria. He taught at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln|Musikhochschule]] in [[Cologne]], Germany and the Hochschule der Künste in [[Bern]], Switzerland.<ref name=camp/><ref name=mart/> His students included [[Božena Angelova]], [[Rachel Kolly d'Alba]], [[Lea Birringer]], [[Kurt Sassmannshaus]], [[Peter Tanfield]], [[Olivier Thouin]], [[Patricia Kopatchinskaja]], [[Richard Tognetti]] and [[Gwendolyn Masin]], as well as current and past leaders of the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and many others.
Ozim made a number of recordings, including contributing to integral recordings of the piano trios of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and the chamber music of [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]. He also recorded violin concertos by his countrymen [[Slavko Osterc]], [[Lucijan Marija Škerjanc]], [[Ivo Petrić]], [[Janez Matičič]] and [[Uroš Krek]].<ref name=last/>
Ozim appeared as jury member at noted violin competitions.<ref name=mart/> These included the [[Isang Yun Competition]] 2004 and the [[International Violin Competition Henri Marteau]] 2008, 2011 and 2014.<ref name=mart/>
Ozim produced editions of various works from the classical and contemporary violin repertoire, including the Mozart violin concertos.<ref name=last>[http://www.last.fm/music/Igor+Ozim/+wiki last.fm]; accessed 28 September 2015{{dead link|date=April 2026}}</ref>
Ozim died in [[Salzburg]], Austria on 23 March 2024, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/glasba/umrl-mednarodno-priznani-slovenski-violinist-igor-ozim/702684 Umrl mednarodno priznani slovenski violinist Igor Ozim] 24 March 2024 www.rtvslo.si accessed 24 April 2026 {{in lang|sl}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{discogs artist|Igor Ozim}} * {{IMDb name|7836084}}
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