Christian Ostertag

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Christian Ostertag (2016)

Christian Ostertag (* 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German violinist from a German-Hungarian family of musicians. His mother was a pianist, his father is the cellist Martin Ostertag .

Life

Christian Ostertag received his first violin lessons at the age of five and was trained first by Thomas Egel-Goldschmidt, later by Valery Gradow and Rainer Kussmaul up to the concert exam (1992).

Additional private studies with Gerard Poulet, Paris and Rony Rogoff, New York, provided decisive impulses. Scholarships from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and the Käthe Dannenmann Foundation supported his studies, as did the long-term loan of a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Turin 1773) by the Baden-Württemberg State Collection.

In 1990 he won the prize of the German Music Competition and was included in the 35th national selection of concerts by young artists , which he completed in the 1991/92 season together with the Munich pianist Fritz Schwinghammer, with whom he has formed a permanent duo since then.

In 1993 he got his first permanent position as first concertmaster of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).

In 1996 he switched to the former SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg as first concertmaster, which was merged with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart to form the SWR Symphony Orchestra in 2016.

In 2001 the "Pro Europa" cultural foundation awarded him the European Soloist Prize.

In addition to his orchestral position, he held a professorship for violin at the Trossingen University of Music from 2005 to 2017 .

In addition, he performs at home and abroad as a concert soloist and chamber musician and teaches master classes such as B. at "Allegro vivo" or the "Forum Artium". His repertoire includes the great works of the Classical and Romantic periods up to the concerts by Philip Glass and Henri Dutilleux , the "Ariosi" by Hans Werner Henze or the Serenade by Leonard Bernstein . The 1st Violin Concerto op. Posth. By Béla Bartók with the SWR-SO under Michael Gielen was included in the 2006 list of the best of the German Record Critics ' Prize.

Since 2017 he has been professor for violin at the Karlsruhe University of Music .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SWR Symphony Orchestra. Christian Ostertag. First concertmaster. Südwestrundfunk , December 15, 2017, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Christian Ostertag. Karlsruhe University of Music, accessed on December 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Easter day, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe