Anja Lechner

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Anja Lechner at her concert with François Couturier in the Stadtkirche Darmstadt on October 11, 2015.

Anja Lechner , (* 1961 in Kassel ) is a German classical cellist who is also at home in improvisation.

Life

Anja Lechner grew up in Neubünsch am Inn. She was a student of Heinrich Schiff and studied with János Starker in Bloomington with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1980 she won first prize at the national competition for academies and conservatories, and first prize at the German Phono Academy. In 1990 she was awarded the sponsorship prize of the City of Munich. The ARD produced a portrait of her in 1992.

Anja Lechner is a founding member of the Rosamunde Quartet , to which she belonged from 1992 until its dissolution in 2009 and with whom she a. a. Recorded works by Joseph Haydn , Dmitri Shostakovich and Tigran Mansurjan . The recordings at ECM received many international reviews and numerous awards.

The recording leggiero, pesante with music by Valentin Silvestrov was nominated for a Grammy in 2003 .

Since the beginning of the 90s she has been working with the Argentinian bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi in a wide variety of formations. In 2007 their duo CD Ojos Negros was released , which was presented on a highly regarded US tour in early 2007 and was named the best CD of the year by Downbeat magazine in 2007. The film "El Encuentro" (directed by Norbert Wiedmer and Enrique Roos) about the duo Anja Lechner & Dino Saluzzi was awarded the 2013 German Record Critics' Prize.

Anja Lechner has been playing in the Tarkovsky Quartet since 2006 with the pianist and composer François Couturier , the saxophonist Jean-Marc Larché and the accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier . The quartet had released three albums by 2017.

Anja Lechner and François Couturier have also been playing in a duo since 2012 . Joachim Kronsbein described the album Moderato Cantabile , released in 2014, in the news magazine Der Spiegel as “one of the most unusual albums of the year”.

She realized other projects with Patricia Kopatchinskaja , the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Reto Bieri, Alexei Ljubimov , Anna Gourari and Silke Avenhaus .

In the improvisational field she worked with Vassilis Tsabropoulos , Maria Pia De Vito , Michele Rabbia , Misha Alperin , Arkady Shilkloper , Peter Ludwig , Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman .

She has premiered numerous works, some of which are dedicated to her. By Valentin Silvestrov , Tigran Mansurjan, Arvo Pärt , Dino Saluzzi , Tõnu Kõrvits, Zad Moultaka and Günter Bialas .

From 1993 to 1998 she was visiting professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Anja Lechner lives and teaches in Munich .

Discography (selection)

  • Kultrum , Dino Saluzzi & Rosamunde Quartet, ECM 1998
  • Valentin Silvestrov: leggiero, pesante, ECM 2002
  • Chants, Hymns and Dances, with Vassilis Tsabropoulos, with music by GI Gurdjieff , ECM 2004
  • Nostalghia - Song For Tarkovsky , Tarkovsky Quartet, ECM 2006
  • Ojos Negros , with Dino Saluzzi, ECM 2007
  • Navidad de los Andes , with Dino & Felix Saluzzi, ECM 2011
  • Il Pergolese , with Maria Pia De Vito, ECM 2013
  • Tigran Mansurian: Quasi parlando , with Patricia Kopatchinskaja , Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson, ECM 2014
  • François Couturier / Anja Lechner Moderato Cantabile , ECM New Series 2367, 2014
  • Tõnu Kõrvits: Mirror , with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tõnu Kaljuste, ECM 2016
  • Valentin Silvestrov: Hieroglyphs of the Night , with Agnès Vesterman , ECM 2017
  • Franz Schubert : The Night , with Pablo Márquez, ECM 2018

Web links

Commons : Anja Lechner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcast Klassik-Pop-et cetera on DLF Deutschlandfunk on August 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Joachim Kronsbein, The unusual album of the cellist Anja Lechner , in: Der Spiegel , No. 43 of October 20, 2014, p. 124f.
  3. ↑ Improvisation with five lifelines in FAZ from February 16, 2015, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel