Natalia Gutman
Natalia Gutman Grigoryevna (Russian Наталья Григорьевна Гутман; born November 14, 1942 in Kazan ) is a Russian cellist.
Life
Natalia Gutman began with 5 years to play the cello, taught by her grandfather Anisim Berlin, a violinist and a pupil of Leopold Auer, and her stepfather Saposchnikow, a pedagogue. Later the family moved to Moscow, where she has been for 13 years trained by the professor Galina Kossopulowa. According to the company it counts also the pianist Sviatoslav Richter to their teachers, they owe much as a musician.
Even as a nine year old, she gave her first concert. Began her career with a gold medal at the World Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959 and the third prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962 in Moscow. This year, she began to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich. Her international career started when he won the first prize at the International Dvořák Festival and the Gold Medal at the ARD Competition in Munich in 1967, which she won in the chamber music category with pianist Alexei Nasedkin. Together with her husband, violinist Oleg Kagan, and friends, she gave private performances at the home of composer Dmitri Shostakovich, among others, the 15 second string quartet and piano trio, and the Blok songs. Even today it is one of Shostakovich to the composer, whose works she plays most often.
In her training, she was strongly influenced by Sviatoslav Richter, who in turn once described as the " incarnation of truthfulness in music ."
She worked under conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink and Sergiu Celibidache. Among its partners in chamber music or included Martha Argerich, Oleg Kagan, Yevgeny Kissin, Alexei Lyubimov, Wjacheslaw Poprugin, Sviatoslav Richter, Isaac Stern and Elisso Wirsaladse.Pr
From 1991 to 2004 she was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
In 2005, she took over the presidency of the Jury of the International Rotary Music Competition in Moscow.
Gutman invited annually hold the International Music Festival in Wildbad Kreuth am Tegernsee, which she had founded in 1990 together with her husband Oleg Kagan and the wwurde continued since Kagan's death on 15 July of the same year in his memory under the name Oleg Kagan Musikfest to 2012.
2012 Natalia Gutman was awarded the Music Prize of the Association of German concert directorates, as well as 2013 with the 4th International Shostakovich Gohrisch price.
She lives near Munich.
Repertoire
Although Natalia Gutman has all the cello repertoire listed since the Baroque, she prefers contemporary works. She has premiered many works, especially of course the works that were written for them personally by such composers as Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Recordings
From the composer of the Baroque Natalia Gutman has presented the complete Bach solo suites, from Romanticism complete chamber music by Schumann, from the Modern written for her works of Alfred Schnittke. In 1988, she recorded the Shostakovich Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, 1989, the Cello Concerto by Dvořák. A stir was caused in 1968 the recorded almost double speed Boccherini Concerto.