Event overview
German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is a versatile artist being equally at home at performing on period instruments, the classical repertoire and commissioning new music.
Nicolas was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he continued his studies with Eberhard Feltz.
After having won several international competitions and a "Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship" in 2009, he was awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010 as part of which he performed with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival. As a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012 he has performed with all BBC Orchestras, at the Proms and the Wigmore Hall.
Highlights in the past include concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestras Berlin, Stuttgart and Helsinki, Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the Munich, Zurich and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras including conductors Vladimir Fedoseyev, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Andrew Davis, Mario Venzago, Andrej Boreyko, Vassily Sinaisky, Adam Fischer, Dennis Russell Davies and Alexander Shelley.
2013/14 he performed with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Järvi at Konzerthaus Vienna (Shostakovich 1st concerto), Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Suntory Hall (Dvorak concerto), Czech Philharmonic and David Zinman in Rudolfinum Prague (Schumann concerto), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with Vladimir Ashkenazy (Walton concerto), Netherlands Philharmonic and Mark Wigglesworth in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, l'Orchestra Symphonique de Québec and Alexander Shelley, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and André de Ridder (German premiere of Nico Muhly's Cello Concerto), Andrea Marcon and his Orchestra La Cetra on period instruments (Caldara concertos) and as a guest artist at the Zermatt Festival of Berlin Philharmonic's Scharoun Ensemble.
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All are welcome to observe this masterclass, although participation is for current students in the Department of Music.
Nicholas Altstaedt will be performing at the Alexander Ivashkin Memorial Concert, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 12 February 2015, at 7.30pm.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Feb 2015 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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