Frans Helmerson

Frans Helmerson (born November 3, 1945 in Falköping ) is a Swedish cellist, teacher and conductor.

Life

He was trained with Guido Vecchi in Gothenburg , Giuseppe Selmi in Rome and William Pleeth in London . With early support from Mstislaw Rostropowitsch , he won the “Concorso Gaspar Cassadó ” in Florence in 1971 and embarked on an international solo career that has since taken him to Europe, North and South America, Russia, Japan and Australia. He worked with orchestras under the direction of the conductors Colin Davis , Neeme Järvi , Evgeny Svetlanov , Gennadi Roschdestwenski , Kurt Sanderling , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Mstislaw Rostropovich, Herbert Blomstedt , Seiji Ozawa , Yuri Temirkanov and Esa-Pekka Salonen . For Frans Helmerson, chamber music forms a focus with the Michelangelo String Quartet, in which he plays with Mihaela Martin , Daniel Austrich and Nobuko Imai . Helmerson teaches as a professor at the Cologne Music Academy , the Kronberg Academy and the Hanns Eisler University in Berlin .

personal data
SURNAME	Helmerson, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish cellist, teacher and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Falkoping