CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF Violine […] Unforgettable: the greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard. […] about the Beethoven VC with the LSO / Daniel Harding The Guardian by Tim Ashley For nearly 30 years Christian Tetzlaff has enjoyed a fulfilled concert life performing over 100 concerts each season to audiences worldwide. A typical highlight in the new season 2015/2016 will be appearances in Leipzig, London, Paris and Vienna with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly performing Mozart’s violin concerto no. 3. Besides this he performs with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Eschenbach) in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Järvi) in Frankfurt as well as in Hamburg and with the Budapest Festival Orchestra (Saraste), the Israel Philharmonic (Noseda) and the Staatskapelle Dresden (Honeck). During 2015/16 season he also tours with his own string quartet, the Tetzlaff Quartett, as well as with other chamber music groups; with Lars Vogt and his sister Tanja Tetzlaff as a trio on a summer festivals’ tour and for a USA tour later in the season. With Leif Ove Andsnes, Clemens Hagen and Tabea Zimmermann they perform Brahms quartets on tour in Europe and America, and he leads a chamber music week at Toppan Hall, Tokyo. Bach’s sonatas and partitas are an important feature of Tetzlaff’s concert life. This season he will play all the sonatas and partitas in one evening in Tokyo, Kioi Hall as well as Bach’s home, at the Bachfest Leipzig in the Thomas church. In USA he returns to the Tanglewood festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Susanna Mälkki), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Fabio Luisi) as well as to the Minnesota Orchestra (Osmo Vänskä). Christian Tetzlaff has already recorded the most frequently played works for the violin. Adding to this, he recently released the Brahms Trios with Lars Vogt and Tanja Tetzlaff and a recording of the violin concertos by Shostakovich with the Helsinki Philharmonic / John Storgårds with the Ondine label. In autumn 2015 a new recording of Dvorak and Suk with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under John Storgårds is planned. Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin made by German violinmaker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy near Frankfurt. SEASON 2015/2016 WE UPDATE OUR BIOGRAPHIES REGULARLY. PLEASE DO NOT USE PREVIOUSLY DATED MATERIAL. .