Nicolas Altstaedt
Winning major prizes in the late 2000s decade, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt has gone on to a world-class career as both soloist and chamber musician. He is the director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria.
Altstaedt was born in 1982 in Heidelberg, West Germany. In 1996, he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, studying with Marcio Carneiro. He moved on to the City of Basel Music Academy and rounded out his education at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where his teachers included Boris Pergamenschikow; he was one of the great cellist's last students. Several major prizes between 2003 and 2010 propelled Altstaedt's career forward, including those at the Concours d'Interpretation Musicale Internationale in Lausanne, the International Domnick Cello Competition of New Music in Stuttgart, and the Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand. He performed with the Vienna Philharmonic under conductor Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland in 2010, and from 2010 to 2012, he was a BBC New Generation Artist. Altstaedt has appeared in many countries, with such ensembles as the Tonhalle Orchestra in Switzerland, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, as well all the BBC symphony orchestras. He has given recitals at such prestigious venues as BOZAR in Brussels, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Altstaedt's chamber music partners are a distinguished group, including violinists Janine Jansen and Vilde Frang, as well as the Quatuor Ebène.
Altstaedt has made more than a dozen recordings, the first being an album of French cello sonatas on the Naxos label. He has gone on to record for Genuin, Channel Classics, and Hyperion, among other labels, and in 2020, he joined fortepianist Alexander Lonquich on the Alpha label for a recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano. Altstaedt moved to the BIS label the following year, issuing an album of works for cello and piano by composer Sebastian Fagerlund with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Hannu Lintu.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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C.P.E. Bach: 3 Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 2 sep. 2016
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Veress : String Trio - Bartók : Piano Quintet
Nicolas Altstaedt, Vilde Frang, Lawrence Power, Barnabás Kelemen
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 23 aug. 2019
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Kodály: Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 - Dvořák: Piano Trio, Op. 90 "Dumky"
Barnabás Kelemen, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 11 jun. 2021
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Schoenberg: String Trio - Regamey: Quintet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 mrt. 2023
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Sonates françaises pour violoncelle
Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo
Kamermuziek - Released by Naxos on 23 feb. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello
Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 apr. 2020
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Salonen: Cello Concerto & Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Nicolas Altstaedt, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk, Pekka Kuusisto
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 18 feb. 2022
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Shostakovich & Weinberg: Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz
Klassiek - Released by Channel Classics on 22 apr. 2016
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Creation
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 jul. 2022
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Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Nicolas Altstaedt - Kammerakademie Potsdam, Michael Sanderling)
Nicolas Altstaedt, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Michael Sanderling
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 1 mei 2009
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Schumann: Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations / Gulda: Cello Concerto
Nicolas Altstaedt, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Alexander Joel
Concertmuziek - Released by Claves Records on 30 jan. 2009
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Sebastian Fagerlund: Cello Concerto "Nomade" & Water Atlas (Live)
Nicolas Altstaedt, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Klassiek - Released by BIS on 4 jun. 2021
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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22 (Live)
Jörg Widmann, Carolin Widmann, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich
Kamermuziek - Released by Orfeo on 22 okt. 2012
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Cello Recital (Works by Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti, Stravinsky, Webern)
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 1 jan. 2007
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Cello and Bayan Arrangements - PIAZZOLLA, A. / VILLA-LOBOS, H. / FALLA, M. / STRAVINSKY, I. / TSINTSADZE, S. (Alstaedt, Moser) (Elsbeth Moser - Astor Piazzolla - Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 1 jan. 2008
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Killmayer: Romanzen & Bagatellen / Schumann: Works with Cello
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 1 okt. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
4 Cities
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 24 feb. 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
C.P.E. Bach: 3 Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 2 sep. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo