Tabea Zimmermann - viola
For many years, Tabea Zimmermann has been recognized as one of the most popular and renowned musicians of our time. Her charismatic personality, deep musical understanding and natural playing are valued equally by both her audience and her fellow musicians. Arguably the finest violist in the world today, Tabea Zimmermann owes her success not only to her exceptional talent, but also to the support of her parents, thorough training by excellent teachers, and a tireless enthusiasm to communicate her understanding and love of music to her audience.
In recent seasons, Tabea Zimmermann has showcased the wide-ranging repertoire for the viola during residencies in Weimar and Luxemburg. The fact that the Berlin Philharmonic joined her to perform the final concert of her residency in Hamburg attests to the respect she has gained as a soloist, who regularly appears with the most prominent orchestras internationally. In the 2010/2011 season, she will be performing Berlioz’ Harold in Italy with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Gewandthaus Leipzig and the Berlin Philharmonie, and will also guest with the Czech Philharmonic. Her season will open with a recital with pianist Alexander Lonquich as well as a chamber concert with Leif Ove Andsnes, Clemens Hagen, Martin Fröst and Christian Tetzlaff at the Salzburg Festival. She will also appear as part of the Wigmore Hall’s 100th birthday celebrations in June 2011.
The Arcanto Quartet, with violinists Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, continues to be a special focus for Tabea Zimmermann’s chamber music activities. After a triumphant concert debut in Stuttgart in June 2004, the Arcanto Quartet quickly went on to perform at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Konzerthaus Vienna, Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Berlin Philharmonie as well as at the festivals in Edinburgh, Rheingau and Montreux. Following the resounding success of their first two CDs with works by Bartók and Brahms, a third CD for the Harmonia Mundi label will soon be released with the quartets by Ravel, Dutilleux and Debussy. After the quartet guested in Israel in 2008 and Japan in 2009, the Arcanto Quartet will introduce itself to the North American audience in October 2010. Among other venues, their tour will see them perform at Carnegie Hall and in the Vancouver Recital Series.
Tabea Zimmermann has inspired many composers to write for the viola and has introduced many new works into the standard concert and chamber music repertoire. In April 1994, she gave a highly successful world premiere of the Sonata for Solo Viola by György Ligeti, a work composed especially for her. The subsequent premieres of this work in London, New York, Paris, Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Japan attracted great critical and public acclaim. In recent seasons, Tabea Zimmermann premiered Recicanto for Viola and Orchestra by Heinz Holliger, the viola concerto Über die Linie IV by Wolfgang Rihm, Monh by George Lentz, Notte di pasqua by Frank Michael Beyer, and, together with Antoine Tamestit, the double concerto by Bruno Mantovani.
Following the success of her Solo-CD with myrios classics in 2009 with works by Reger and Bach, for which she will be honoured with an Echo Klassik prize as Instrumentalist of the Year, the same label will release her new album with pianist Kirill Gerstein with sonatas by Johannes Brahms, Henri Vieuxtemps and Rebecca Clarke in September 2010. Over 30 CDs for labels such as EMI, Teldec and Deutsche Grammophon document Tabea Zimmermann’s artistry. Ars Musici released a live recording of her performance on Beethoven’s own viola at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, accompanied by Hartmut Höll. She has also recorded a duo recital CD for Capriccio with works by Schumann with Hartmut Höll. Her latest concerto releases are a live recording of Berlioz's Harold in Italy under Sir Colin Davis with London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis and a recording of Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Orchestra with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Steven Sloane.
Tabea Zimmermann has received several national and international awards for her outstanding artistic contributions. These include Hessischer Kulturpreis, the Rheingau Musikpreis, the International Prize Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna and the Paul-Hindemith-Prize from the city of Hanau.
Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three, and two years later began playing the piano. She studied with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Following her studies, she received several awards at international competitions, amongst them first prizes at the 1982 Geneva International Competition and the 1984 Budapest International Competition. As a result of winning the 1983 Maurice Vieux Competition in Paris, she received a viola by the contemporary maker Etienne Vatelot on which she has been performing ever since. From 1987 to 2000, she regularly gave concerts in Düsseldorf, Jerusalem and Luxemburg with the late David Shallon, father of her two sons Yuval and Jonathan. Tabea Zimmermann held teaching posts at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken and Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt, and has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin since October 2002 she. She is married to the American conductor Steven Sloane, their daughter Maya was born in September 2003.
In recent seasons, Tabea Zimmermann has showcased the wide-ranging repertoire for the viola during residencies in Weimar and Luxemburg. The fact that the Berlin Philharmonic joined her to perform the final concert of her residency in Hamburg attests to the respect she has gained as a soloist, who regularly appears with the most prominent orchestras internationally. In the 2010/2011 season, she will be performing Berlioz’ Harold in Italy with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Gewandthaus Leipzig and the Berlin Philharmonie, and will also guest with the Czech Philharmonic. Her season will open with a recital with pianist Alexander Lonquich as well as a chamber concert with Leif Ove Andsnes, Clemens Hagen, Martin Fröst and Christian Tetzlaff at the Salzburg Festival. She will also appear as part of the Wigmore Hall’s 100th birthday celebrations in June 2011.
The Arcanto Quartet, with violinists Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, continues to be a special focus for Tabea Zimmermann’s chamber music activities. After a triumphant concert debut in Stuttgart in June 2004, the Arcanto Quartet quickly went on to perform at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Konzerthaus Vienna, Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Berlin Philharmonie as well as at the festivals in Edinburgh, Rheingau and Montreux. Following the resounding success of their first two CDs with works by Bartók and Brahms, a third CD for the Harmonia Mundi label will soon be released with the quartets by Ravel, Dutilleux and Debussy. After the quartet guested in Israel in 2008 and Japan in 2009, the Arcanto Quartet will introduce itself to the North American audience in October 2010. Among other venues, their tour will see them perform at Carnegie Hall and in the Vancouver Recital Series.
Tabea Zimmermann has inspired many composers to write for the viola and has introduced many new works into the standard concert and chamber music repertoire. In April 1994, she gave a highly successful world premiere of the Sonata for Solo Viola by György Ligeti, a work composed especially for her. The subsequent premieres of this work in London, New York, Paris, Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Japan attracted great critical and public acclaim. In recent seasons, Tabea Zimmermann premiered Recicanto for Viola and Orchestra by Heinz Holliger, the viola concerto Über die Linie IV by Wolfgang Rihm, Monh by George Lentz, Notte di pasqua by Frank Michael Beyer, and, together with Antoine Tamestit, the double concerto by Bruno Mantovani.
Following the success of her Solo-CD with myrios classics in 2009 with works by Reger and Bach, for which she will be honoured with an Echo Klassik prize as Instrumentalist of the Year, the same label will release her new album with pianist Kirill Gerstein with sonatas by Johannes Brahms, Henri Vieuxtemps and Rebecca Clarke in September 2010. Over 30 CDs for labels such as EMI, Teldec and Deutsche Grammophon document Tabea Zimmermann’s artistry. Ars Musici released a live recording of her performance on Beethoven’s own viola at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, accompanied by Hartmut Höll. She has also recorded a duo recital CD for Capriccio with works by Schumann with Hartmut Höll. Her latest concerto releases are a live recording of Berlioz's Harold in Italy under Sir Colin Davis with London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis and a recording of Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Orchestra with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Steven Sloane.
Tabea Zimmermann has received several national and international awards for her outstanding artistic contributions. These include Hessischer Kulturpreis, the Rheingau Musikpreis, the International Prize Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna and the Paul-Hindemith-Prize from the city of Hanau.
Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three, and two years later began playing the piano. She studied with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Following her studies, she received several awards at international competitions, amongst them first prizes at the 1982 Geneva International Competition and the 1984 Budapest International Competition. As a result of winning the 1983 Maurice Vieux Competition in Paris, she received a viola by the contemporary maker Etienne Vatelot on which she has been performing ever since. From 1987 to 2000, she regularly gave concerts in Düsseldorf, Jerusalem and Luxemburg with the late David Shallon, father of her two sons Yuval and Jonathan. Tabea Zimmermann held teaching posts at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken and Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt, and has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin since October 2002 she. She is married to the American conductor Steven Sloane, their daughter Maya was born in September 2003.
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Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Marco Borggreve