Torsten Janicke

Torsten Janicke is among Germany’s leading orchestral and live concert violinists. He began playing violin when he was seven years of age. He gained an East German Teen Music artists’ Competition shortly afterwards. At age thirteen he was accepted towards the Dresden string college, a famous area of expertise college. In 1976 he inserted the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber Music Academy in Dresden. Since this college was originally set up with the Dresden Condition Orchestra, it really is among the world’s finest orchestral schooling organizations. His instructor was Heinz Rudolf. Furthermore, Janicke took get good at classes with Oleg Kryssa, Wolfgang Marschner, and André Gertler. Also before graduating, Janicke gained an award on the 1980 Bach Competition in Leipzig. In 1982 the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra employed him as initial concertmaster. Following competition awards verified him among the leading brand-new violinists of Germany. He received awards in the Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Sion, 1985, the Indianapolis International Violin Competition of 1986, as well as the ARD Competition in Munich in 1988. In 1989 he was appointed initial concertmaster from the Essen Philharmonic, and in 1991 initial concertmaster from the Gürzenich Orchestra/Cologne Philharmonic. Furthermore, he keeps a career being a concert violinist, mainly in Central European countries (appearing using the Leipzig and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Condition Philharmonic, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Kassel Condition Theater Orchestra, as well as the Poznan Symphony) but also with some orchestral performances in farther places, including Egypt (Cairo Symphony) and Russia (St. Petersburg Condition Orchestra). Being a single recitalist or chamber participant he in addition has toured to america and somewhere else in Europe. As well as the regular repertory concertos, he’s something of an expert in lesser-known functions, like the Hans Werner Henze, Richard Strauss, Louis Spohr, and Karol Szymanowski violin concertos. He’s the initial violinist from the Gürzenich Quartet and concertmaster from the Gürzenich Chamber Orchestra. He provides made frequent performances on Bavarian Radio (Munich) and WDR (Traditional western Germany Radio) (Cologne). His device is certainly a 1736 Gagliano violin.