Nicolas Altstaedt
- BBC New Generation Artist Saison 2010/2011 & 2011/2012
- Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
- Mitglied der Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society New York
- Borletti – Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2009
Nicolas Altstaedt was awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award 2010 and gave his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival 2010. He received a Borletti Buitoni Fellowship 2009 and currently is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, which includes BBC studio recordings, performances and recordings with BBC orchestras, appearances at the BBC Proms, the Wigmore Hall and various festivals.
Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where Nicolas is still working with Eberhard Feltz.
He recently performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, with the RSO Stuttgart, the Stuttgart and Zurich chamber orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Finnish and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russell Davies, Adam Fischer, Sir Andrew Davies, Jeffrey Tate, Walter Weller and Andrey Boreyko.
Next season includes debut performances with the Auckland Philharmonic, Beethovenorchester Bonn, the Tonkünstlerorchestra at the Musikverein Vienna and in Osaka and tours with the Lucerne Festival String Orchestra and Kammerakademie Potsdam.
He appears in concert around the globe with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Daniel Hope, Yuri Bashmet, Pekka Kuusisto, Alexander Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, the Quatuor Ebène, and has collaborated with composers Thomas Ades, Wilhelm Killmayer, Sofia Gubaidulina and HK Gruber. He has recently performed the Double Concerto of György Kurtag at the composers' 85th birthday concert in Budapest, and is a regular guest at the festivals of Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Ludwigsburg, Rheingau, Salzburg Summer and Salzburg Mozart Festival.
He has been awarded first prizes of the German Music Competition and Domnick Cello Competition 2005, the Adam International Cello Competition New Zealand 2006, the Marguerite-Duetschler Award - Gstaad 2008 and the Prize of the Kulturstiftung Dortmund 2010. His last recording of the Haydn Cello concertos as well the recording of the cello concertos of Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Gulda have been highly acclaimed. A CD with the complete works of Gabriel Pierné, Vincent d'Indy and Nadia Boulanger and another one with pieces of Schumann and Wilhelm Killmayer (world premiere recording) has just been released.
He has been granted a three-season residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York and plays a cello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821) loaned to him by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where Nicolas is still working with Eberhard Feltz.
He recently performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, with the RSO Stuttgart, the Stuttgart and Zurich chamber orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Finnish and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russell Davies, Adam Fischer, Sir Andrew Davies, Jeffrey Tate, Walter Weller and Andrey Boreyko.
Next season includes debut performances with the Auckland Philharmonic, Beethovenorchester Bonn, the Tonkünstlerorchestra at the Musikverein Vienna and in Osaka and tours with the Lucerne Festival String Orchestra and Kammerakademie Potsdam.
He appears in concert around the globe with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Daniel Hope, Yuri Bashmet, Pekka Kuusisto, Alexander Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, the Quatuor Ebène, and has collaborated with composers Thomas Ades, Wilhelm Killmayer, Sofia Gubaidulina and HK Gruber. He has recently performed the Double Concerto of György Kurtag at the composers' 85th birthday concert in Budapest, and is a regular guest at the festivals of Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Ludwigsburg, Rheingau, Salzburg Summer and Salzburg Mozart Festival.
He has been awarded first prizes of the German Music Competition and Domnick Cello Competition 2005, the Adam International Cello Competition New Zealand 2006, the Marguerite-Duetschler Award - Gstaad 2008 and the Prize of the Kulturstiftung Dortmund 2010. His last recording of the Haydn Cello concertos as well the recording of the cello concertos of Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Gulda have been highly acclaimed. A CD with the complete works of Gabriel Pierné, Vincent d'Indy and Nadia Boulanger and another one with pieces of Schumann and Wilhelm Killmayer (world premiere recording) has just been released.
He has been granted a three-season residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York and plays a cello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821) loaned to him by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
