Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt has recently been appointed as the new artistic director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival after being suggested by Gidon Kremer. Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin. He has recently performed, among others, with the Kremerata Baltica, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the RSO Stuttgart and the New Zealand and Melbourne Orchestras as well as the Berlin and Helsinki Radio Orchestras, and has worked with conductors like Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington and Mario Venzago and musicians like Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and the Quatuor Ebène. He is a regular guest at festivals like Salzburg Festival and the Mozartweek and gave his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival 2010. He has been awarded many international prizes including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2009 and is one of the few Europeans to have been granted a three-season residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York. He has been unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award 2010. His recordings of the Haydn cello concertos as well as the recording of the cello concertos of Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Gulda and a recently released CD with music of Wilhelm Killmayer have been highly acclaimed and praised. He plays a cello that was made by Nicolas Lupot in Paris in 1821 and is owned by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Nicolas Altstaedt is a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012. Further details at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/

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Artist Website

www.nicolasaltstaedt.com

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