Christiane Edinger & James Tocco
Biography Christiane Edinger & James Tocco
Christiane Edinger
Born in Potsdam, Christiane Edinger hails from a highly musical family and received the basic grounding for the high standard of her art as an interpreter and her technique from Professor Vittorio Brero at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Later she completed her training with Josef Fuchs at the Juilliard School of Music, New York, and with Nathan Milstein
Christiane Edinger made her debut as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when she was 19. This appearance at the Berlin Festival marked the beginning of her career. She has since made numerous guest appearances with orchestras in Europe and North America, also regularly visiting Asia, South America and Russia.
Highly praised by critics and audiences alike throughout the world, Christiane Edinger is a familiar guest with the Berlin, Rotterdam and Leningrad orchestras, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra in Great Britain. Including all the standard works, her repertoire extends from the Baroque to the present day and features many lesser-known works from all periods.
Both in Europe and North America, Christiane Edinger has frequently featured in radio and TV productions.
Her concert tours in the USA have included appearances with the Boston, Pittsburgh, New York and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Recitals have taken her the length and breadth of the country, to Washington, San Francisco, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Pasadena, among other centres.
Her recordings range from the complete works by J.S. Bach for solo violin, the Mendelssohn sonatas using the Aurea Stradivarius (for Thorofon), contemporary works by Blacher, Linke and Maderna plus two Fauré sonatas (for Orion) and the Hindemith sonatas (for Teldec). Her last recording before Howard Blake's Violin Concerto (for ASV) was of Penderecki's Violin Concerto No. 1. With the composer on the rostrum, this was the second occasion on which she had recorded the work, having also given the German premiere of it in 1979, just two years after the very first performance, by Isaac Stern.
Other composers to have entrusted her with the premieres include Boris Blacher and Cristobal Halffter.
Christiane Edinger's latest recordings include the complete Mozart violin concertos and the Beethoven concerto (all for Arte Nova), also a CD of Eduard Franck's violin concerto (for Fermate) with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. With her Edinger String Quartet, she has also recorded other works by this Romantic composer.
Recently ago Christiane Edinger appeared as soloist with both the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (conducted by Christian Thielmann), the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner and with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under Hartmut Haenchen.
Since 1994 Christiane Edinger has been professor for violin at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, while her artistic achievements have been acknowledged by the conferment of many prizes and distinctions, including the 1975 German Critics' Award and the Music Prize of her native city of Berlin.
