Nicolas Altstaedt

 

Haydn's artistic messages, including daunting technical challenges, are projected across the imagined stage with such verve and detailed plasticity, in a manner so rich in consummate musical perception, more than I have ever experienced before.
(Peter Cossé reviewing Nicolas Altstaedt's recording of Haydn's cello concertos with the Kammerakademie Potsdam)

Nicolas Altstaedt was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award 2010. As part of this prestigious he gave his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival 2010.

Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he is continuing his studies with Eberhard Feltz.

He has performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, with the RSO Stuttgart, the Stuttgart and Zurich chamber orchestra, Kremerata Baltica as well as with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Finnish and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russell Davies, Adam Fischer and Andrey Boreyko.

He appears in concert with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Daniel Hope, Alexander Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, the Quatuor Ebène, collaborates with composers Thomas Ades, Wilhelm Killmayer, Sofia Gubaidulina and HK Gruber and is a regular guest at the festivals of Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Ludwigsburg, Rheingau, Salzburg Summer and Salzburg Mozart Festival.

He has been awarded first prizes of the German Music Competition and Domnick Cello Competition 2005, the Adam International Cello Competition New Zealand 2006, the Marguerite-Duetschler Award - Gstaad 2008, a Borletti Buitoni Felloship 2009 and the Prize of Kulturstiftung Dortmund 2010.

His last recording of the Haydn Cello concertos as well the recording of the cello concertos of Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Gulda have been highly acclaimed. A CD with the complete works of Gabriel Pierné, Vincent d'Indy and Nadia Boulanger and another one with pieces of Schumann and Wilhelm Killmayer (world premiere recording) has just been released.

He has been granted a three-season residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York and is taking part in the BBC NEW GENERATION ARTISTS scheme, which includes performances and recordings with the five BBC orchestras, special studio recordings and appearances at thehttp://www.nicolasaltstaedt.com/BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall and various festivals. 

He plays a cello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821) loaned to him by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

 

 

 

 

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