Claudio Bohorquez
After a major prize win at the International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in 2000, cellist Claudio Bohórquez became an important presence on the concert scene in Germany and beyond. He is also a noted educator and in the 2000s and 2010s has enjoyed a growing recording career. Bohórquez was born in Gifhorn in north central Germany but grew up in the larger industrial city of Karlsruhe in the southwest. His father was Peruvian, his mother Uruguayan. When asked what was specifically Latin in his makeup, he has pointed to his long black hair. His first exposure to classical music came through opera; when a recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte was played, he would sing along from the booklet. He took up the cello at eight, and soon after that he and a friend were challenged to drop their practicing and join their cohorts on the soccer field. They refused, and the friend, Jesús Castro-Balbi, also became a successful cellist. Bohórquez made rapid progress and studied in turn with David Geringas at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, with Hans-Christian Schweiker at the University of Aacent, and with Boris Pergamenschikow at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. His win at the Pablo Casals Competition was preceded by other strong competition showings, including those at the Tchaikovsky Youth Competition in Moscow and the Rostropovich Competition in Paris. Bohórquez has appeared as a concerto soloist with many major German orchestras, including the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Many of his appearances abroad have been in the U.S.; these have included concerts with the Detroit and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Bohórquez has also appeared at numerous festivals in Europe and the New World, including the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He taught at the Hanns Eisler Academy from 2003 to 2006, and joined the faculty of the Stuttgart Music Academy as professor in 2011. In 2004, Bohórquez appeared with the Dresden Philharmonic and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in a Berlin Classics recording of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote. After albums for the Avanti Classic and Alpha labels, he returned to Berlin Classics, releasing an album of Brahms' two cello sonatas with pianist Péter Nagy in 2018. He is the artistic director of Germany's Winnenden Festival.
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Beethoven : Trios for Clarinet, Cello & Piano
Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Claudio Bohorquez
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 20 jul. 2018
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
On the Shoulders of Giants
Claudio Bohorquez, Christoph Eschenbach
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 26 mei 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Piazzolla: Patagonia Express Trio
Claudio Bohorquez, Oscar Bohorquez, Gustavo Beytelmann
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 29 jan. 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Recital: Bohorquez, Claudio - DEBUSSY, C. / PROKOFIEV, S. / BRITTEN, B. (Claude Debussy - Sergey Prokofiev - Benjamin Britten)
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 1 jan. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dvořák: Sonatine, Op. 100 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50
Lars Vogt, Antje Weithaas, Claudio Bohorquez
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 20 mei 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Penderecki : Music for Violin, Cello & Orchestra
Patrycja Piekutowska, Jakob Spahn, Ivan Monighetti, Claudio Bohorquez, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki
Klassiek - Released by DUX on 24 jun. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Opus 38 & 99 (Sonatas for Piano and Cello)
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 27 jul. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Staatliches Symphonieorchester Kaliningrad / Königsberg
Staatliches Symphonieorchester Kaliningrad / Königsberg, Arkadi Feldmann, Claudio Bohorquez, Jurij Skvortsov
Klassiek - Released by Antes Edition on 1 jan. 1975
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STRAUSS, R.: Don Quixote (Fruhbeck)
Claudio Bohorquez, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Dresdner Philharmonie
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 2 mrt. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Chisholm - Schmickler: Solo and Accompaniment
Klassiek - Released by Aulos MusiKado on 6 jul. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo