Alban Gerhardt
Alban Gerhardt (* 1969 in Berlin ) is a German cellist.
Gerhardt was born into a musical family in Berlin. At eight, he began playing the cello. He trained and studied with Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne, Markus Nyikos and Frans Helmerson. Gerhardt made his debut in 1987 with Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major.
He has already listed over 45 different cello concertos, including some rarities. The collaboration with living composers such as Unsuk Chin, Peteris Vasks, Brett Dean, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher and Mathias Hinke documenting his interest in expanding the repertoire. Despite his intense career as a soloist, chamber music has in Alban Gerhardt's work an important meaning: the case of international festivals such as the London Proms and the Edinburgh Festival and in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Paris Chatelet he performs regularly with colleagues like Steven Osborne, Cécile Licad, Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Lisa Batiashvili, Julia Fischer, Tabea Zimmermann, Emmanuel Pahud and the Artemis Quartet.
Alban Gerhardt's recordings have already been received multiple awards, including Echo Klassik Awards 1998 and 2003. Kicking off a long-term collaboration with the British label Hyperion he has in the last year with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar concertante works by Eugen d' Albert Ernst von Dohnanyi and George Enescu played ( Midem Classical Award 2006 in Cannes). 2007 his first duo CD with Steven Osborne, with works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke, and " The Romantic Cello Concerto " with the concertos of Robert Schumann, Friedrich Gernsheim, Robert Volkmann and Albert Dietrich received the second edition in the winter in the series, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu. For various companies such as EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Chandos and the BBC Music Magazine, he has already recorded concertos of Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Samuel Barber, Frank Bridge, Anton Rubinstein and Lennox Berkeley, also some Recital CDs.
Gerhardt plays a cello made in the workshop of Matteo Goffriller. He lives in Berlin.