Tuesday (8/28) on the Limelight website (Australia), Melissa Lesnie writes, “He already had an exotic, double-barrelled name that wouldn’t seem out of place alongside Björk, Madonna, Rihanna or Lady Gaga—and a daring performance style and aesthetic to match. But the classical chameleon formerly known as Hahn-Bin has changed his name to Amadeus Leopold in a bid to pay tribute to his violin idols. … A kind of David Bowie of the classical music world and an underground fashion icon, the 25-year-old told Limelight that his new stage name reflects his ‘marriage and commitment to the new golden era of music—one where there is no boundary between what is classical and what is pop. We are very near that golden era of music; one that is reminiscent of the days when Liszt and Kreisler, Rachmaninov and Mozart himself, were the rockstars of their day. … The violinist has combined the names of two generations of Mozart who excelled on the instrument: Leopold wrote violin treatises and taught his son, the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus. The ‘Leopold’ component, he added, also serves as a mark of respect to the great Hungarian virtuoso Leopold Auer (1845–1930).”
Posted August 28, 2012
