Adrian Brendel

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Adrian Brendel (born February 4, 1976 in London ) is an Austrian cellist ; he is dedicated to new music as well as the standard repertoire of classical music.

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Brendel, who comes from a family of musicians (his father is the pianist Alfred Brendel , his mother studied with Karl Richter in Munich), was initially given musical instruction by his parents. At the age of six he started playing the cello. He attended British schools and studied from 1996 to 2001 at Winchester College, Cambridge University and the Cologne University of Music with William Pleeth , Alexander Baillie , Miklós Perényi and Frans Helmerson . Master classes with György Kurtág , Ferenc Rados as well as the Amadeus Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented the academic training.

Brendel has been performing as a chamber musician and cello soloist since the 1990s. He was a guest at the festivals in Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Verbier, Salzburg, Enescu, the Schubertiade and the Ruhr Piano Festival . He has also performed regularly at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonic , the Wiener Musikverein and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw . As a soloist he has played with orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields , the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , the Sinfonia Varsovia and other European orchestras. A joint recording of Beethoven's five cello sonatas with his father in the 2003/2004 season was published by Philips / Decca ; the joint appearances received a lot of attention in the feature pages. At the Cheltenham Festival 2009 he played the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's Bogenstrich with Till Fellner and Roderick Williams (a Munich recording was released in 2014 on ECM Records ). He also works with chamber music performers such as Lisa Batiashvili and Kit Armstrong , but also cross-genre with Nils Wogram , Rebecca Horn and Patti Smith .

Brendel is also the Artistic Director of the Music at Plush festival held in Dorset every summer. He teaches as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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SURNAME Brendel, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH London