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Pieter Wispelwey, Cello PIETER WISPELWEY, CELLO “ Cello playing of incomparable technical and musical accomplishment.” The Sunday Times “Wispelwey’s playing is at once supremely lyrical and furiously intense” The Guardian “Deeply communicative and highly individual performances.” New York Times “An outstanding cellist and a really wonderful musician” Gramophone Pieter Wispelwey is among the first of a generation of performers who are equally at ease on the modern or the period cello. His acute stylistic awareness, combined with a truly original interpretation and a phenomenal technical mastery, has won the hearts of critics and public alike in repertoire ranging from JS Bach to Elliott Carter. Born in Haarlem, Netherlands, Wispelwey’s sophisticated musical personality is rooted in the training he received: from early years with Dicky Boeke and Anner Bylsma in Amsterdam to Paul Katz in the USA and William Pleeth in Great Britain. In 1992 he became the first cellist ever to receive the Netherlands Music Prize, which is awarded to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands. Highlights among future concerto performances include return engagements with the Kontzerhaus Orchester Berlin, RTE National Symphony Orchestra Dublin, Liège Philharmonic, Yiomiuri Nippon Symphony, Kollegium Musikum Winterthur, debuts with the Edmonton Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic as well as extensive Nordic Artists Management / Denmark VAT number: DK29514143 http://nordicartistsmanagement.com European touring with Emmanuel Krivine’s Chambre Philharmonique, the Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Kammerorchester Basel and the Academy of Ancient Music. Forthcoming recital appearances include the New York’s Linccoln Centre, Montecarlo Printemps des Arts, Bath International Festival, Flanders Festival, Amsterdam’s Robeco Series and Prinsengracht Festival, Bordeaux Grand Théâtre, Nantes Folle Journee, Lisbon Dias de Musica, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Valloires Festival, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Glasgow’s City Halls, as well as tours in Germany, Japan and North America. In 2009 and 2010 he will also be touring in a trio with Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and performances will include the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Doelen Hall Rotterdam, Konzerhaus Vienna, and Wigmore Hall London. Wispelwey’s career spans five continents and he has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including Sydney Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, St Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon, Tokyo Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony, London Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Danish National Radio Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, collaborating with conductors including Ivan Fischer, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herbert Blomstedt, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jeffrey Tate, Kent Nagano, Sir Neville Marriner, Philippe Herreweghe, Vassily Sinaisky, Vladimir Jurowski, Paavo Berglund, Louis Langrée, Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman, Libor Pesek and Sir Roger Norrington. With regular recital appearances in London (Wigmore Hall), Paris (Châtelet, Louvre), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw), Brussels (Bozar), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Milan (Societta del Quartetto), Buenos Aires (Teatro Nordic Artists Management / Denmark VAT number: DK29514143 http://nordicartistsmanagement.com Colon), Sydney (Utson Hall), Los Angeles (Walt Disney Hall) and New York (Lincoln Center), Wispelwey has established a reputation as one of the most charismatic recitalists on the circuit. Pieter Wispelwey’s discography, available on Channel Classics, displays an impressive line up of over twenty recordings, six of which attracted major international awards. His most recent release (Autumn 2008) is a disc feauring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.2. Future releases include the Walton Concerto (Sydney Symphony/Jeffrey Tate) and Prokofiev’s Symphonie Concertante op.125 (Rotterdam Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaiski). Pieter Wispelwey plays on a 1760 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini cello and a 1710 Rombouts baroque cello. Nordic Artists Management / Denmark VAT number: DK29514143 http://nordicartistsmanagement.com.
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