Alban Gerhardt

Alban Gerhardt is a German cellist, known for his wide repertoire and dedicated performances. The boy of the violinist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, he started his music research at age group 8, learning cello and piano. His open public debut is at 1987, within a efficiency of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with people from the Berlin Philharmonic. In his formative years, Gerhardt moved into international tournaments and made an appearance with main orchestras all over the world. He provides performed with an increase of than 250 orchestras and caused essential conductors, including Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Neville Marriner, Marek Janowski, Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Neeme Järvi, Christian Thielemann, and David Zinman, among numerous others. Because he desires audiences to see traditional music in brand-new and challenging methods, Gerhardt frequently bypasses the well-known cello concertos and only unfamiliar parts, and he provides discovered over 70 concertos, a lot of that are obscure or brand-new works. He in addition has devoted significant energy to chamber music, and he provides joined up with Steven Osborne, Cecile Licad, Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Lisa Batiashvili, Arabella Steinbacher, Gergana Gergova, and Emmanuel Pahud in well-received shows.