Nicolas Altstaedt

Altstaedt (* 1982 in Heidelberg) is a German cellist.

Life and work

Born to German - French parents, Altstaedt was one of the last pupils of Boris Pergamenchikov at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin. He graduated from Eberhard Feltz.

Several first prizes in international competitions followed in 2009, a Fellowship of the Borletti Buitoni Foundation and the price of the Cultural Foundation of Dortmund, 2010. Also in 2010 Altstaedt was awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award at the Vienna Musikverein, leading to his debut with the Vienna in the same year Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel led the Lucerne Festival. Shortly thereafter he was " New Generation Artists " BBC program included in the, which includes performances and recordings with all the BBC orchestras, chamber music and recitals at the Proms and the Wigmore Hall.

2011 he was at the suggestion of Gidon Kremer passed the artistic director of the Chamber Music Festival curls house for the first time took place in July 2012 under his aegis.

He undertook and undertakes, inter alia, Appearances with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Kremerata Baltica, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Zurich, Munich and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Orchestras of Berlin, Stuttgart and Helsinki, as well as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. This under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Sir Roger Norrington, Michail Jurowski, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russell Davies, Adam Fischer, Vladimir Fedossev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alexander Shelley and Andrey Boreyko.

The study of contemporary music is his heart's desire. He performs with composer Thomas Ades, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Sofia Gubaidulina, Moritz Eggert and HK Gruber. In 2006 he played the Swiss premiere of the cello concerto by Georg Friedrich Haas with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. 2011 years he played for the 85th birthday of composer György Kurtag his Double Concerto in Budapest, 2012, the Cello Concerto temptation for the 60th birthday of the composer Wolfgang Rihm. More dedicated works to him by Thomas Larcher, Raphael Merlin and Fazil Say in 2012 and premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among others.

Among his regular recital and chamber music partners include Alexander Lonquich Barnabás Kelemen, Pekka Kuusisto, Antoine Tamestit, Jonathan Cohen, the Quatuor Ebene and he is a frequent guest at the Rheingau and Jerusalem Festival, the Salzburg Mozart Week and the Summer Festival. As one of the few European artists, he was inducted into the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society of New York.

Both his recording of the Haydn concerts, as well as the recently released world premiere recordings of Killmayer were taken by the press worldwide with enthusiasm. Altstaedt plays a cello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821), the German Music Foundation.

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