Tabea Zimmermann

Tabea Zimmerman is one of the relatively couple of violists to get achieved both international critical acclaim and a big following of enthusiastic admirers. Champion of several main competitions and many awards, she’s made an appearance as soloist with lots of the world’s leading orchestras, like the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Zimmerman in addition has performed major functions specifically written on her behalf, like the Ligeti Sonata for single viola (premiered 1994) as well as other parts by Heinz Holliger, Wolfgang Rihm, Sally Beamish, and Josef Tal. Zimmerman’s repertory isn’t only rich in modern works but consumes music from most intervals, including functions by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Bruch, Hindemith, Schnittke, and countless others. She’s produced over 40 recordings, pass on over many brands, including Capriccio, DG, EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Philips, RCA, and Sony. Tabea Zimmerman was created in Lahr, Germany, on Oct 8, 1966. She started studies over the viola at three and on piano at five. On the Musikhochschule Freiburg, she examined with Ulrich Koch, from age group 13. She afterwards enrolled on the Mozarteum School in Salzburg where her most significant instructor was Sándor Végh. From 1982 she captured initial prize within a string of esteemed tournaments: the Geneva International Music Competition, Maurice Vieux Competition in Paris (1983), as well as the Budapest International Competition (1984). Zimmerman was quickly named among the leading German violists, executing executing with major Western european and Israeli orchestras and in chamber groupings with such performers as Gidon Kremer, Pamela Frank, and Steven Isserlis. Zimmerman became a member of the faculty on the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken in 1987, portion for just two years. She’d later teach on the Frankfurt School of Music (1994-2002) and is a professor on the Berlin-based Hanns Eisler Academy of Music since 2002. On the other hand, not merely was Zimmerman’s single career attaining meteoric position, but her chamber activity, specifically as an associate from the Arcanto Quartet, was also sketching worldwide acclaim: the Arcanto Quartet’s 2004 Stuttgart debut and afterwards debuts on the Beethovenhaus Bonn, Wigmore Hall in London, as well as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw had been great successes, resulting in the ensemble’s extremely praised 2007 documenting from the Bartók Fifth and 6th quartets for Harmonia Mundi. Among Zimmerman’s even more acclaimed recordings being a soloist is normally her 2009 Compact disc on Myrios Classics of viola sonatas by Reger and J.S. Bach, the last mentioned transcribed from cello originals.