Nicolas Altstaedt

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Nicolas Altstaedt (* 1982 in Heidelberg ) is a German-French cellist .

Live and act

Born to French-German parents, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of the last students of Boris Pergamenschikow at the Hanns Eisler University in Berlin . He completed his studies with Eberhard Feltz.

In 2010 Altstaedt received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award at the Wiener Musikverein , after which he made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival . Shortly thereafter, he was inducted into the BBC's New Generation Artist program, which includes appearances and recordings with all of the BBC orchestras, appearances at the Proms and at Wigmore Hall .

In 2011, at the suggestion of Gidon Kremer, he was given the artistic direction of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival ; in 2015, at the request of Adam Fischer , he took over the artistic direction of the Haydn Philharmonic .

In 2017 he played the Finnish premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Cello Concerto at the Helsinki Festival. In the coming seasons he will be on tour with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and Teodor Currentzis , the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. This is followed by debuts with the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , NHK Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Detroit Symphony Orchestra , Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra , Orchester National de France , Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra , Helsinki Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic. In 2017/2018 he was Artist in Spotlight at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , in 2018/2019 he was Artist in Residence with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg.

He undertook and undertakes u. a. Performances with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , the Vienna Symphony , the Czech Philharmonic , the Kremerata Baltica, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Simon Bolivar Orchester, the Zurich, Munich, Basel and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras , the Bamberg Symphony , the New Zealand and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. This under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner , Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Urbanski , Thomas Hengelbrock , Thomas Daugaard, Lahav Shani, Juraj Valcuha, Emmanuel Krivine , Sir Roger Norrington , Mario Venzago, Vladimir Fedossev, Vladimir Ashkenazy , Andrej Boreyko, Andrea Marcon and Giovanni Antonini .

Altstaedt gives concerts a. a. with the composers Thomas Adès , Jörg Widmann , Matthias Pintscher , Sofia Gubaidulina and Bryce Dessner and HK Gruber. In 2011 he played his double concerto in Budapest on the 85th birthday of the composer György Kurtág , and in 2012 the cello concerto Temptation on the 60th birthday of the composer Wolfgang Rihm . Further cello concertos by Sebastian Fagerlund and Helena Winkelman have been commissioned.

His regular recital and chamber music partners include Janine Jansen , Vilde Frang , Fazil Say , Alexander Lonquich , Pekka Kuusisto , Antoine Tamestit , Jonathan Cohen, Jean Rondeau and the Quatuor Ebene . He is a frequent guest at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Jerusalem Festival, the Proms, the Salzburg Mozart Week and the Summer Festival. He was one of the few European artists to be accepted into the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society New York.

Both his recordings of concerts by Joseph Haydn , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Mieczysław Weinberg and Dmitri Schostakowitsch as well as the world premiere recordings by Wilhelm Killmayer were received with enthusiasm by the specialist press worldwide. His recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's cello concerts won the BBC Music Magazine's 2017 Concerto Award.

Prizes and awards

  • 2018: Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
  • 2017: BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award
  • 2017: Edison Klassiek with Fazil Say
  • 2015: Beethoven-Ring of the Bonn Society Citizens for Beethoven .
  • 2009: Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship
  • 2010: Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
  • 2010: Young Talent Award at the Dortmund Cultural Foundation
  • 2006: Adam International Cello Competition New Zealand

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolas Altstaedt: "Cello Suite No. 1" . ( zdf.de [accessed December 17, 2016]). Nicolas Altstaedt: "Cello Suite No. 1" ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  2. ^ Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra in Residence Esterhazy Castle Eisenstadt - Nicolas Altstaedt. (No longer available online.) In: www.haydnphil.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haydnphil.com
  3. ^ National Symphony Orchestra: Dvořák's Cello Concerto - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester: Nicolas Altstaedt in portrait | NDR. September 17, 2018, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ euronews (in English): Esa-Pekka Salonen's devilishly difficult and cosmic Cello Concerto - musica. August 24, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  6. ^ NDR: "Concerts for Hamburg": Hengelbrock & Altstaedt. In: www.ndr.de. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .
  7. ^ Nicolas Altstaedt: Bloch Schelomo Nicolas Altstaedt, Lahav Shani. October 1, 2018, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ AVROTROS Klassiek: Janine Jansen & Friends: Tsjaikovski - Souvenir de Florence. June 30, 2014, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  9. ^ Nicolas Altstaedt: "Cello Suite No. 1" . ( zdf.de [accessed December 17, 2016]). Nicolas Altstaedt: "Cello Suite No. 1" ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  10. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Cello-Poet Altstaedt: Dance the Warsaw Tango! In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Award ceremony of the Music Prize 2018 to Nicolas Altstaedt Sören Link, Prof. Dr. Holger Noltze, Ensemble of the Duisburg Philharmonic · Duisburg Philharmonic. Retrieved on July 2, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A minor, H342 Wq170… (Nicolas Altstaedt; Arcangelo / Jonathan…) | Classical music review from Classical-Music.com. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .
  13. ↑ 2017 - Edison Klassiek . In: Edison Klassiek . ( edisons.nl [accessed November 20, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Beethoven Ring. Bonn honors Nicolas Altstedt in FAZ on November 21, 2015, page 13
  15. ^ Nicolas Altstaedt - Fellowship Winner 2009 - Borletti-Buitoni Trust. In: www.bbtrust.com. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .
  16. ^ Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is the winner of the “Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010”. (No longer available online.) In: Credit Suisse. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.credit-suisse.com
  17. ↑ Kulturstiftung Dortmund awards young talent prize for the first time: cellist Nicolas Altstaedt first prize winner . In: OpenPR.de . ( openpr.de [accessed on December 17, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Altstaedt, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg