Christian Tetzlaff

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff possesses a repertory that gets to from J.S. Bach to Ligeti and beyond, and frequently shows up in orchestral and chamber concerts. He’s a popular documenting artist, with an increase of than 30 recordings to his credit, many issued on main brands like EMI Classics and Virgin Classics. He offers received worldwide acclaim for his shows and recordings from the six Bach single sonatas and partitas, aswell for the five Mozart concertos. But he offers achieved equal achievement for very much else, including his Bartók Second and Beethoven and Brahms concertos. Tetzlaff in addition has championed a good amount of modern music: beside his extremely praised accounts from the Schoenberg, Berg, and Ligeti concertos — the last mentioned given with an acclaimed worldwide tour in 1999-2000 — he premiered the Johannes Harneit violin concerto in Freiburg, Germany, in 2000. Tetzlaff often performs in collaboration with main orchestras and companions with lots of the world’s leading performers, like Yo-Yo Ma, Christoph Eschenbach, Sabine Meyer, Heinrich Schiff, and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, his sister. Christian Tetzlaff was created in Hamburg, Germany, on Apr 29, 1966. Having proven skill on both piano and violin in his youth, he eventually find the last mentioned device, and by his early teenagers was an achieved violinist. His public debut at 14 in the Beethoven violin concerto was a significant success. He afterwards studied on the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Uwe-Martin Haiberg with the Cincinnati School College-Conservatory of Music with Walter Levine. From about 1989 he begun to pull worldwide see: his Schoenberg violin concerto functionality using the Cleveland Orchestra that calendar year was broadly hailed, and in European countries he was starting to make regular performances in Paris, Cologne, London, and various other main venues. Tetzlaff’s NEW YORK recital debut in 1993 on the 92nd Road Y in an application of J.S. Bach, Ysaÿe, and Bartók, was extremely praised in THE BRAND NEW York Situations. That same calendar year Tetzlaff’s first documenting from the six Bach single sonatas and partitas on Virgin Classics drew rave testimonials and continues to be considered a standard recording for the reason that repertory. In 2001 Tetzlaff produced notable performances at several main European celebrations with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and both later on collaborated for acclaimed Virgin Classics recordings (2002-2004) of sonatas by Brahms, Janácek, Ravel, Debussy, Nielsen, and Bartók. Among Tetzlaff’s newer recordings are his 2006-2007 Virgin Classics CDs from the Mozart concertos, which he also performs as conductor. His 2011-2012 plan included main trips in Asia using the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with Daniel Harding as well as the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Thomas Hengelbrock.