Nicolas Altstaedt
Winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010
Winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2009
"Already now he possesses a brilliant technique, beautiful sound, outstanding feeling of form, excellent phrasing. His play was masterly. Without exaggeration one can say that we are dealing with an highly gifted musician, with a unique personality." Sofia Gubaidulina
"Altstaedt is already much more than promising" The Strad
Nicolas Altstaedt belongs to the most exciting and successful young artists of his generation. Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he has continued his studies with Eberhard Feltz. Furthermore he has been influenced by Mstislav Rostropovich, Tabea Zimmermann, Heinrich Schiff, Mikl鏀 Per幯yi, Steven Isserlis and Anner Bylsma.
Nicolas Altstaedt received several international awards in July 2006 the first prize at the Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand, which included a tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The "Landgraf von Hessen Preis" of the Kronberg Academy 2004, First Prizes at the German Music Competition 2005, at the International Domnick Cello Competition in Stuttgart 2005 and the First Prize in the International Paulo Cello Competition 2007. 2008 he received the Marguerite-Duetschler Award of the festival "Sommets Musicaux" in Gstaad (selected by Mischa Maisky). 2009 he was awarded with the Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship.
Last seasons’ highlights were concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner, with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart under the baton of Sir Roger Norrington, the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonie under Adam Fischer, the Musikkollegium Winterthur under Mario Venzago, the Stuttgart Chamber orchestra under Dennis Russel Davies, as well as with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne- and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra.
As chamber musician he is currently playing with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Daniel Hope, Alina Ibragimova, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Lonquich, Carolin Widmann, J顤g Widmann, the Quatuor Eb鋝e, the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the bajan player Elsbeth Moser. Her regularly works with the composers Moritz Eggert, Franghiz Ali-Sade, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lera Auerbach and HK Gruber. Moreover he cooperates with musicians from Palestine and Mongolia at such venues as the Gobi Desert, Ramallah and Baghdad.
He has been performing all over the world including the Seoul Arts Center and Sejong Center in Seoul, Suntory Hall Tokio, the Philharmonies in Berlin and Cologne and Carnegie Hall New York, Tonhalle Zurich, the Philharmonies Berlin and Cologne, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Ch漮elet Paris, Herkuleshall Munich, the Mozarteum Salzburg and others. He regularly appears at prestigious international festivals such as Lockenhaus, Salzburg Festival, Jerusalem, Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, les mus嶯ques in Basel, Beethovenfestival Bonn, the Ludwigsburger Schlo綒estspiele and the Cellofestival Kronberg.
His debut CD was released on the GENUIN label 2007 and was chosen by the Strad magazine as the selection of the month for December of 2007. Again with GENUIN a second CD appeared 2008 “Vuelta al mundo” with the bajan player Elsbeth Moser and in spring 2009 a CD (CLAVES) with the concertos of Schumann, Tschaikowsky and Gulda and the two Haydn concertos with the Potsdamer Kammerakademie under Michael Sanderling. Both CDs were hailed by the international media.
He is one of the few European artists being a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber music society 2 for the seasons 2009–2012.
Nicolas Altstaedt plays a violoncello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821) loaned to him by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
2009-2010
