TANJA TETZLAFF

The young cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has developed an extensive repertoire which encompasses the standard works for cello, as well as numerous contemporary concerti and chamber works. She studied with Prof. Bernhard Gmelin at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg and with Prof. Heinrich Schiff at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Tanja Tetzlaff has performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under Sir Yehudi Menuhin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Moscow under Vladimir Fedosseyev, the Berliner Symphoniker under Alun Francis, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Claus Peter Flor, the Philharmonic Orchestra Danzig under Boris Perrenoud, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders under Philippe Herreweghe, the Wiener Kammerphilharmonie under Claudius Traunfellner, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra under Neal Stulberg and the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra under Stefan Blunier.

She has also toured throughout Europe, Australia and Japan, including appearances in Stockholm (Konzerthus), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Birmingham (Symphony Hall), Frankfurt (Mozartsaal), Cologne (Philharmonie), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Paris (Louvre), Nagoya and Tokyo.

In addition to her regular duo partner, pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa, her chamber music partners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Alexej Lubimov, Lars Vogt, Martin Fröst, Matthias Kirschnereit, Christian Tetzlaff and Tabea Zimmermann. She appears frequently at summer festivals, including those in St. Gallen, Davos, Pontresina, Risør and Heimbach, and has also appeared at the Berliner Festwochen and the Bremen Music Festival.

Tanja Tetzlaff has participated successfully in numerous international competitions, including first prize at the First International Music Competition in Vienna in 1992, first prize at the International Music Competition in Bayreuth in 1993 and third prize at the ARD International Music Competition in 1994. She was named "Lauréate Juventus 1995" by the Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in France. In 1999 she received the award of the Bremen Music Festival. During the 1998/1999 season she was "Artist in Residence" with DeutschlandRadio Cologne, and in 1999/2000 she was awarded the European Novartis Prize by the Kultur-Fördergemeinschaft der Europäischen Wirtschaft. Tanja Tetzlaff will be "Artist in Residence" of the city of Duisberg in the 2002/2003 season.

Future engagements include, in addition to numerous appearances with Mihaela Ursuleasa and other chamber music partners at the Edinburgh Festival, in Badenweiler, at the Postdamer Schloßfestspiele, in Brussels, Cologne and Feldkirch, several concerto performances with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

Tanja Tetzlaff has recorded the Haydn cello concerti with the Wiener Kammerorchester. In addition, a CD portrait of the artist has just been released containing the Schumann cello concerto with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen conducted by Heinz Holliger as well as works from the solo literature of Bach, Kodály, Salonen and Britten.


Season 2002/ 2003

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