Alexander Gebert

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Alexander Gebert (* 1977 in Warsaw ) is a Polish cellist and university professor.

Geber is the offspring of a family of musicians who emigrated to Finland in 1980. In 1982 he received his first cello lessons from Timo Hanhinen at the Turku Conservatory . At the age of 12 he became a student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki . His teachers there included Csaba Szilvay, Victoria Yaglig, Kazimierz Michalik, Marko Ylönen and Heikki Rautasalo.

From 1995 to 1998 he studied music with Kazimierz Michalik at the Fryderyk Chopin University and then moved to Paris (Philippe Muller) and Stuttgart (Natalia Gutman).

Gebert has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe and North America. This resulted in collaboration with composers such as Mauricio Kagel , Salvatore Sciarrino , Friedrich Cerha , Krzysztof Meyer , Krzysztof Penderecki , Albert Schneltzer and Kurt Schwertsik .

From 2005 to 2012 Gebert was the cellist of the Altenberg Trio Vienna , whose repertoire includes around 200 piano trios, including some composed especially for the Altenberg Trio. Between 2007 and 2013, Gebert gave two concerts a year at the Wiener Musikverein with the pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits. The duo has also premiered several works dedicated to the duo by composers such as Richard Dünser , Tomasz Skweres , Akos Banlaky , Lukas Haselböck and Christoph Reinhard.

Gebert now often gives master classes in Finland, Belgium and Poland. He taught chamber music at the Conservatory Vienna Private University , the Accademia die Musica di Pinerolo and the Accademia pianistica di Imola, as well as numerous master classes at various European colleges and universities.

Since 2010 he has been a professor at the Detmold University of Music , and since 2015 he has also been the artistic prorector there.

Awards

  • 1993 International Cello Competition
  • 1997 Second winner in the Warsaw Lutosławski competition
  • 2000 3rd prize in the Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb
  • Second prize and audience prize at the Geneva International Competition
  • 1st prize in the Concorso Valentino Bucchi in Rome
  • from 2002 he was awarded a three-year scholarship from the Groupe Banques Populaires in Paris

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Gebert at the HfM Detmold
personal data
SURNAME Gebert, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish cellist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw