Alexei Stadler

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Alexei Stadler  ( Russian Алексей Стадлер ; born June 13,  1991  in  Leningrad ) is a  Russian cellist .

Life

Born into a family of musicians, he began playing the cello at the age of four. He received his first lessons from Alexey Lazko, after which he continued his education at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School in Saint Petersburg. He attended master classes with David Geringas , Frans Helmerson , Lynn Harrell , Steven Isserlis , Andras Schiff and Michael Sanderling .

Stadler studied in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . He was a scholarship holder of the “Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation” and “Alfred Töpfer Foundation” in Hamburg.

During his studies he won various prizes and national awards such as “Young Talent” (2008, 2009 and 2010) and “Hope of Russia” (2008, 2009). In 2008 he recorded Rachmaninov's Sonata op. 19 on a cello by A. Jacout, which had once belonged to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II . In 2012 he took part in the Kronberg Academy's chamber music festival “Chamber Music Connects the World”   , where he performed with  Gidon KremerYuri Bashmet  and  Christian Tetzlaff  .

In 2012 Stadler won the renowned TONALi music competition in Hamburg.

As a soloist he has performed with the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana , London Chamber Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and under renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Michael Sanderling and Marek Janowski performed.

He played chamber music with Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Akiko Suwanai, Maxim Rysanov, Torleif Thedeen, Jörg Widmann, Itamar Golan, Igor Levit, Ebene Quartet and Martin Grubinger and has appeared in recitals at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival Stavanger,  Heidelberg SpringMecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival  and Vinterfest.

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