Nicolas Altstaedt received a 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award 2010. As part of this prestigious award he will be soloist of the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival 2010. Born in 1982 into a family of German and French descent, Nicolas Altstaedt was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he is continuing his studies with Eberhard Feltz. He has performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, with the RSO Stuttgart, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Stuttgart and Zurich Chamber orchestra, Kremerata Baltica as well as with Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russel Davies and Adam Fischer. He performed with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Alexander Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, the Quatuor Ebène, Daniel Hope, and has appeared at the festivals of Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Salzburg Summer and Salzburg Mozart Festival, Schleswig-Holstein and Beethoven Fest Bonn. He has worked intensively with the composers Thomas Ades, Wilhelm Killmayer, Lera Auerbach and Sofia Gubaidulina. He has been awarded first prizes of the German Music Competition, Domnick Cello Competition 2005, Adam International Cello Competition New Zealand and the Marguerite-Duetschler Award - Gstaad. In 2009 two new CD’s have been released, one including Schumann’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and Gulda’s Cello Concerto (Claves) and the other with Haydn’s Cello Concertos (Genuin). Nicolas Altstaedt plays a Nicolas Lupot zello (Paris 1821) loaned by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

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Artist Website

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