Christian Tetzlaff
Tanja Tetzlaff
Lars Vogt

Performers

• Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
• Lars Vogt, Piano
• Tanja Tetzlaff, Cello

Program

• SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929
• SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2
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  Encore:
• SCHUMANN In mässiger Bewegung from Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Christian Tetzlaff
  
  Christian Tetzlaff is known for a broad spectrum of performances and recordings, including Bach's unaccompanied sonatas and partitas; 19th-century masterworks by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Brahms; 20th-century concertos by Bartók, Berg, and Shostakovich; and world premieres of contemporary works. Also a dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Tetzlaff frequently collaborates with distinguished artists and is a founder of the Tetzlaff Quartet.
  
  Mr. Tetzlaff has been in demand as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He has appeared with the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Toronto, among many others; and with major European ensembles, including the Berliner Philharmoniker; Orchestre de Paris; and London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras.
  
  Highlights of Mr. Tetzlaff's 2009–2010 season include return visits to the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the Chicago, Saint Louis, and Indianapolis symphonies; recitals in Boston and Toronto; first performances with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra; a tour with the San Francisco Symphony that includes concerts at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall; and performances of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and New York's 92nd Street Y.
  
  Mr. Tetzlaff's highly regarded recordings reflect the breadth of his musical interests. Releases include Berg's Chamber Concerto with Mitsuko Uchida and Ensemble Intercontemporain, led by Pierre Boulez, for Decca; the Brahms and Joachim violin concertos with the Danish Radio Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard for Virgin Classics; Bach sonatas and partitas on the Musical Heritage and Hänssler labels; Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zürich and David Zinman for Arte Nova; and a Grammy-nominated album of Bartók's violin sonatas nos. 1 and 2 (with Leif Ove Andsnes), and Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin, also on Virgin Classics.

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• Lars Vogt
  
  Born in Düren, Germany, pianist Lars Vogt first came to public attention when he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition; he has since performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.
  
  An EMI recording artist, Mr. Vogt has recorded Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado; Schumann, Grieg, and the first two Beethoven concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle; solo works by Schubert; and Mozart concertos with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg and Ivor Bolton.
  
  Mr. Vogt was appointed the Berliner Philharmoniker's first pianist-in-residence in 2003–2004. He has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Philharmonic, and the Bayerische Staatsorchester, among others. In the US, Mr. Vogt has appeared with the National, Pittsburgh, and Houston symphonies; in Asia, he has appeared with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg.
  
  This season, Mr. Vogt appears with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle; opens the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France's season; and performs recitals with Thomas Quasthoff. Other chamber engagements take him to Rome and Philadelphia, with additional performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Last month, Mr. Vogt was a featured guest artist at Mozartwoche in Salzburg, where he performed Mozart concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic and Christoph Eschenbach, and with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding.
  
  In 1998, Mr. Vogt founded Spannungen, a festival in Heimbach, Germany, whose success has been marked by the release of 10 live recordings on EMI. He enjoys regular partnerships with Christian Tetzlaff, and collaborates occasionally with actor Klaus Maria Brandauer and comedian Konrad Beikircher. He also initiated Rhapsody in School, an education project in Germany.

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• Tanja Tetzlaff
  
  Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff's extensive repertoire encompasses solo standard works, contemporary concertos, and chamber music. She studied with Bernhard Gmelin at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg, and with Heinrich Schiff at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
  
  Ms. Tetzlaff's honors include first prize at the First International Music Competition in Vienna (1992), third prize at the ARD International Music Competition (1994), the Förderpreis Deutschland (1998), and the Novartis-Prize of the Kultur-Fördergemeinschaft der Europäischen Wirtschaft.
  
  She has performed with such orchestras as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Berliner Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She has also worked with conductors Lorin Maazel, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Sir Roger Norrington, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Paavo Järvi, among others.
  
  As a chamber musician, Ms. Tetzlaff performs regularly with such musicians as Leif Ove Andsnes, Lars Vogt, Tabea Zimmermann, Martin Fröst, Gunilla Süssmann, Alexander Lonquich, Florian Donderer, and her brother Christian Tetzlaff, with whom she founded the Tetzlaff Quartet.
  
  Ms. Tetzlaff appears frequently at summer festivals in Switzerland (St. Gallen, Davos, Pontresina), Norway (Risør, Bergen), Germany (Schwetzingen, Heimbach) and the Netherlands (Delft). She has also appeared at the Berliner Festwochen, Musikfest Bremen, and Klangbogen Wien.
  
  Last season, Ms. Tetzlaff performed cello concertos by Elgar, Haydn, Shostakovich, and Saint-Saëns, as well as the German premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Cello Concerto. She also performed the Brahms Double Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff and B. A. Zimmermann's Pas de trois in Berlin.
  
  Ms. Tetzlaff has recorded the Haydn cello concertos with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, conducted by Heinz Holliger; solo works by Bach, Kodály, Salonen, and Britten; and Grieg, Sibelius, and Rachmaninoff with pianist Gunilla Süssmann.
  
  Ms. Tetzlaff plays a cello made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1776.

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