- Nicolas Altstaedt
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Nicolas Altstaedt (born 1982) is a German classical cellist.
Biography and career
Nicolas Altstaedt studied music in Berlin with Boris Pergamenschikow, and continues his studies there with Eberhard Felts. He has won a number of prizes and awards, such as the 2004 Landgrave of Hesse Prize of the Kronberg Academy, first prize at the 2005 German Music Competition, the 2005 International Domnick Cello Competition, Stuttgart, and the 2006 Adam International Cello Competition, New Zealand, the 2010 Kulturstiftung Dortmund prize and the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010.[1] He is a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012, a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, and he received a Borletti Buitoni Fellowship in 2009.[2]
Altstaedt has performed with many well-known musicians, including Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Daniel Hope, Leif Ove Andsnes, and the Quatuour Ebene. Altstaedt has notably performed with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival in 2010. He has worked with a number of contemporary composers, such as Thomas Ades, Lera Aurerbach and Sofia Gubaidulina. He has appeared at many festivals around the world, including those in Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, the Salzburg Summer and Salzburg Mozart festivals, Beethonevnfest Bonn, and the Cellofestival Kronberg.
Alstaedt has recorded several CDs for the Genuin and Naxos labels, performing music by Schumann, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and a recital of French music by Pierne, d'Indy and Boulanger.
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