Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman

Natalja Grigorjewna Gutman ( Russian: Наталья Григорьевна Гутман ; born November 14, 1942 in Kazan ) is a Russian cellist .

Life

Natalja Gutman began to play the cello at the age of 5 , taught by her grandfather Anisim Berlin, a violinist and student of Leopold von Auer , and her stepfather Saposchnikow, a teacher. The family later moved to Moscow, where they were trained for 13 years by Professor Galina Kosopulova. According to her own statements, she also counts the pianist Svyatoslaw Richter among her teachers, to whom she owes a lot as a musician.

She gave her first concert when she was nine years old. Her career began with a gold medal at the World Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959 and third prize in the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In that year she began to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich . Her international career began with winning the first prize at the International Dvořák Festival and the gold medal at the ARD competition in Munich in 1967, which she won in the chamber music category together with pianist Alexei Nasedkin. Together with her husband, the violinist Oleg Kagan , and friends, she gave private performances in the apartment of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich , a. a. from his 15th string quartet and 2nd piano trio, as well as the Blok songs. Even today she counts Shostakovich to the composer whose works she plays most often.

In her training she was strongly influenced by Svyatoslaw Richter , who in turn once described her as the "incarnation of truthfulness in music".

She worked under the conductors Claudio Abbado , Riccardo Muti , Gennadi Roschdestwenski , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Juri Temirkanow , Kurt Masur , Bernard Haitink and Sergiu Celibidache . Her partners in chamber music include or included Martha Argerich , Oleg Kagan , Evgeni Kissin , Alexei Lyubimow, Vyacheslav Poprugin, Svyatoslaw Richter , Isaac Stern , Elisso Wirsaladze and Kirill Troussov .

From 1991 to 2004 she was a professor at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts .

For 2005 she chaired the jury of the International Rotary Music Competition in Moscow.

Gutman invited every year to the International Music Festival in Wildbad Kreuth am Tegernsee, which she founded together with her husband Oleg Kagan in 1990 and which since Kagan's death on July 15 of the same year has been continued in his memory under the name Oleg Kagan Music Festival until 2012 .

In 2012 Natalja Gutman was awarded the Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors, and in 2013 the 4th International Shostakovich Prize Gohrisch .

She lives near Munich .

repertoire

Although Natalja Gutman has performed the entire cello repertoire since the Baroque, she prefers contemporary works. She has premiered many works, especially of course the works that were written for her personally by composers such as Alfred Schnittke , Edisson Denissow and Sofia Gubaidulina .

Recordings

Natalja Gutman presented the complete Bach solo suites of the Baroque composers , the complete chamber music of Schumann from the Romantic period, and the works of Alfred Schnittke written for them from the Modern period . In 1988 she recorded the Shostakovich Concerts No. 1 and 2, and in 1989 Dvořák's Cello Concerto. In 1968 the Boccherini Concerto, recorded almost twice as fast, caused a stir .

Web links

• Interview with Natalia Gutman "Follow music like a fate" ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )