Gerhart Darmstadt

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Gerhart Darmstadt (* 1952 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German cellist , arpeggio player , conductor, specialist in historical performance practice and university professor. His brother Hans Darmstadt is also a professional musician.

Darmstadt studied violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen with Mirko Dorner and historical performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He supplemented his training with several courses with Anner Bylsma .
Darmstadt teaches the subjects of baroque violoncello, historical performance practice and chamber music as a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Since 2006 he has been President of the International Joseph Martin Kraus Society.

In 2014, Gerhart Darmstadt and Isolde Zerer-Kittel were awarded the Hamburg Teaching Prize for the Christmas Oratorio study project by JS Bach . The award, endowed with 10,000 euros, is presented by the Hamburg Senate and is based on suggestions from the students.

His older brother is the church music director, university professor and composer Hans Darmstadt .

Notes and individual references

  1. Biographical data from www.gerhartdarmstadt.de ( memento from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Senator of Science awards 6th Hamburg Teaching Prize. ( Memento from July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) hh-mittendrin.de. Retrieved July 8, 2014.

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