After having won several international
competitions including the Leonard Rose in 1993 and the ARD Competition Munich in 1990,
Alban Gerhardt has established himself as one of the world's leading cellists.
Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Alban Gerhardt's career has
flourished. He has performed as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras
including the NDR Hamburg and Frankfurt Radio Orchestras, Bamberg Symphony, Leipzig
Gewandhaus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestre National de
Belgique, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra Tokyo and Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Houston,
Colorado and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. His collaborators have been conductors such as
Christoph Eschenbach, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Paavo Järvi,
Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur and Jeffrey Tate.
This season, Alban Gerhardt's international orchestral appearances include his debut at
the London "Proms" with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Alexander
Lazarew, concerts with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (performing the Walton
Concerto), Radio Orchestra Leipzig (MDR), Vienna Tonkuenstler Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic
in Manchester, BBC Scottish Symphony, Spanish National Orchestra in Madrid under the
direction of Walter Weller, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Alban Gerhardt's United States
orchestral appearances will be with the St. Louis Chamberorchestra, San Diego
Chamberorchestra, Madison Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, and Puerto
Rico Symphony. Highlights of next season will be an orchestral three-week tour through the
United States, his debut with the Dresden Philharmonic and Marek Janowski, a tour with the
Jeuness World World Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony through Germany, a recital with
Cecile Licad at the Frick Collection in New York, concerts with orchestras in Tennessee,
Colorado, Brussels, Hannover, and a recital tour with Markus Groh in Europe, starting at
the Chatelet in Paris.
In 1993 he made his highly acclaimed New York recital debut at Lincoln Center's Alice
Tully Hall. Since then, as a recitalist and chamber musician, Alban Gerhardt has been
represented at such distinguished venues as London's Wigmore Hall, Musee d'Orsay and
Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Berliner and Cologne Philharmonie, Musikverein Vienna and
Suntory Hall in Tokyo. His tours in the United States have brought him to the Ravinia
Festival in Chicago, Washington DC's Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection, Boston's
Gardiner Museum, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall and New York's Tisch Center for the Arts. This
season he gives recitals at the Seoul Arts Center, two at London's Wigmore Hall, at the
Chatelet in Paris, and in Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. Gerhardt is a frequent guest at major international music festivals. He has
participated at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Berliner Festwochen, Colmar Festival in
France, Switzerland's Davos Festival, Finland's Kuhmo Festival as well as festivals in
Ireland, Sweden and the United States where he has performed chamber music at the Spoleto
Festival (Charleston), Newport and Vancouver music festivals with such artists as
Jean-Philippe Collard, Christoph Eschenbach, Cecile Licad, Anne-Marie McDermott, Peter
Serkin, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Kyoko Takezawa, Chee-Yun, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Paul
Neubauer, the Vogler-, St. Lawrence and Borromeo quatets. This season he participates
among others in the Bath Festival in England, as well as the Prague Autumn Festival with
the Slovakian Philharmonic with James Judd performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto.
Mr. Gerhardt has been featured numerous times by television and radio stations in
Europe and the United States. He is part of the "Young Generation Scheme" of the
BBC. Last season, he recorded three Brahms Sonatas for Harmonia Mundi in Paris for which
he won the prestigious "ECHO Classics Price". His recording of Spanish Encores
for EMI has been recently released. Born in Berlin in 1969 into a musical family, Alban
Gerhardt played piano and cello at a young age excelling in both instruments. He studied
at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Boris Pergamenchikov and Frans Helmerson. He now
resides in New York City with his wife Katalina and son János Antonio. Further
information about Mr. Gerhardt can be obtained from his web-site at www.albangerhardt.com.
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