Kolja Blacher

Kolja Blacher (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German violinist .

life and career

Kolja is the son of the composer Boris Blacher and the pianist Gerty Blacher-Herzog . His sister Tatjana Blacher is an actress.

At the age of 15, Blacher won the national competition of Jugend musiziert and then studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He then studied with Sándor Végh .

He then began a successful career as a soloist. From 1993 to 1999 Blacher was first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado . In 1999 he took over a professorship for violin at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In 2009, he moved to the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin in the same position .

In 1988 Kolja Blacher took part in a high-ranking, international production by Ruth Berghaus on the occasion of the second music meeting in St. Moritz . Here he played the title role in Igor Stravinsky's story of the soldier .

Blacher plays on the so-called “Tritton” Stradivarius from 1730, which is made available to him by a private collector.

personal data
SURNAME	Blacher, Kolja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin