Friedemann Eichhorn, Alexander Hülshoff, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra & Nicolás Pasquet
Biography Friedemann Eichhorn, Alexander Hülshoff, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra & Nicolás Pasquet
Friedemann Eichhorn
Born in Münster (Germany) in 1971, Friedemann Eichhorn has maintained a close connection with Kronberg Academy since 2000. As a participant in the first Chamber Music Connects the World festival, he played alongside Yuri Bashmet, Eugene Istomin, Gidon Kremer and Boris Pergamenschikow. Friedemann Eichhorn devotes a substantial portion of his work to the development of gifted young violinists. In 2002 he was appointed to the Liszt School of Music in Weimar as one of Germany's youngest violin professors and in 2006 he was elected as the Director of the Department of String Instruments and Harp. He is also the Artistic Director of the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Weimar. In addition, Friedemann Eichhorn spent many years teaching at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg.
Friedemann Eichhorn was appointed as the Director of Kronberg Academy Study Programmes in 2012.
The versatile soloist performs in Germany and other countries with a number of renowned orchestras that include, for example, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and has played under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin. His repertoire includes more than 40 violin concertos ranging from Bach to Berg. His first released recordings of the complete concertos of Pierre Rode (Naxos), which he rediscovered for the concert hall, were highly acclaimed. As a chamber musician he is a welcome guest at many festivals. Friedemann Eichhorn has a keen interest in exploring a wide variety of musical idioms. His discography includes tango CDs and recordings of rarely performed works for violin and piano by Franz Liszt (with R-D Arens on Hänssler classic).
Alongside his concert performances, Friedemann Eichhorn is also a committed musicologist. His doctoral thesis was on Gidon Kremer. He has written lexicon articles (e.g. for the new edition of the MGG) and edits scores for music publishers such as Schott Music. From 2011 to 2007 he was the Director of the Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg.
Friedemann Eichhorn grew up in Speyer and began his violin studies with Valery Gradow at the Academy of Music in Mannheim at the age of 16, simultaneously preparing for and completing his end-of-school examinations (Abitur) by remote study. He then went on to study with Alberto Lysy at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland, and with Margaret Pardee at the Juilliard School in New York. He subsequently studied musicology, law and codicology at the University of Mainz (graduating with a PhD). He plays Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume's "Ex Huberman" violin, which dates from 1854.
Alexander Hülshoff
grown up in the Palatinate in southwestern Germany, has established himself as a soloist and chamber musician on concert stages all over the world. He stands out for the great expressiveness and a powerful, warm and nuanced sound that identifies his playing. His musical skills are valued by audiences and musical partners alike and his exceptional hallmarks are recognized on concert stages all over the world.
As a soloist he is guest of German and international Orchestras such as the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, the Brno Philharmonic, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Cordoba, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Tel Aviv Soloist Ensemble, the Limburg Symfonie Orkest Maastricht, the George Ensecu Philharmonie, the Kymi Sinfonietta, the Armenian National Phlilharmonic Orchestra, the Istanbul Devlet Senfoni Orkestrasi, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro of Brasilia, the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra (Rio de Janeiro), the Mikkelin Kaupunginorkesteri, Orquesta Sinfonica de la UANL and many others.
His concert tours take him to other European countries, the Near and Far East as well as Russia and North and South America.
Chamber music occupies a central place in his performances and recordings both as cellist of the Trio Bamberg and in ensemble playing with colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Martin Stadfeld, Fazil Say, Friedemann Eichhorn, Hagai Shaham, Vadim Gluzman, the Fine Arts Quartet, Orion Quarett, Gil Sharon, Rainer Honeck.
Together with his music partners he gives concerts in famous halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin and many others.
Alexander Hülshoff is Creator and Artistic Director of the Kloster Kamp Chamber Music Festival and the Artistic Director of Villa Musica, a foundation of the Rhineland-Palatinate State.
Numerous CDs testify the wideness of his musical range, including works by Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bloch, Servais and others. The recordings have been published by Novalis, Naxos, Musicaphon, Brillant, VDM musical treasures and Oehms Classics.
In 1997 Alexander Hülshoff was appointed professor for violoncello at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Since April 2014 he has been the Artistic Director of the Orchesterzentrum | NRW, an institution gathering the four music academies of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and with Lynn Harrell at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
