Nils Mönkemeyer
Nils Mönkemeyer has emerged as one of the leading violists of the 2010s and 2020s in his native Germany, earning a contract with the Sony Classical label that has brought him wide exposure and strong album sales. He specializes in both the history of the viola and in contemporary music.
The son of guitarist Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer, Nils Mönkemeyer was born in Bremen in 1978. He studied at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, majoring in violin at first, but switching to viola in 1997 after finding that he enjoyed his chamber music classes the most. Mönkemeyer has continued to specialize in chamber music as a touring player, participating in three separate groups: a trio with Sabine Meyer and William Youn, the Julia Fischer Quartet, and a viola-and-piano duo with Youn. At the Musikhochschule Hannover, he studied viola with Christian Pohl, and he rounded out his education with stints at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he worked with Veronika Hagen. He has played a 1742 Giuseppe Cavaleri instrument owned by the state of Rheinland-Pfalz and now plays an instrument by builder Peter Erben. Mönkemeyer has been a professor of viola in Munich since 2011.
Signed to Sony Classical, Mönkemeyer released Ohne Worte (Without Words), an album of songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Mendelssohn performed on the viola, without a singer. He has continued to release innovative but accessible albums, and most have landed on German classical sales charts and sometimes on foreign ones. They have included the 2013 double album Bach und Mehr (Bach and More), which paired Bach's Suites for Solo Cello with contemporary Bach-influenced compositions in a two-disc set. In 2021, he released the album Vivaldi, Paganini, Tartini on Sony Classical. Mönkemeyer has also recorded for the CPO label, which specializes in lesser-known repertory; for that label, he recorded the viola concerto of Wilhelm Georg Berger with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Horia Andreescu.
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Konstantia Gourzi: Whispers
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 4 de mar. de 2022
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Vivaldi - Paganini - Tartini
Nils Mönkemeyer, L'arte del mondo
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 5 de mar. de 2021
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Vivaldi - Paganini - Tartini
Nils Mönkemeyer, L'arte del mondo
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 5 de mar. de 2021
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William Walton, Max Bruch, Arvo Pärt
Classical - Lançado por Sony Music Classical Local em 11 de ago. de 2017
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Mozart with Friends
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 8 de abr. de 2016
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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Notturno, Op. 42 / PART, A.: Fratres / SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 (Monkemeyer, Rimmer) (Ludwig van Beethoven - Arvo Part - Dmitry Shostakovich)
Classical - Lançado por Genuin em 1 de jan. de 2008
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Anájikon
Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguet Quartett, Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Konstantia Gourzi
Classical - Lançado por ECM New Series em 30 de abr. de 2021
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Berger: Viola Concerto - Symphony 4
Nils Mönkemeyer, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Horia Andreescu
Classical - Lançado por CPO em 12 de abr. de 2013
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Anájikon
Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguet Quartett, Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Konstantia Gourzi
Classical - Lançado por ECM New Series em 30 de abr. de 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Baroque
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 13 de abr. de 2018
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Mozart with Friends
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 8 de abr. de 2016
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata / Mendelssohn & Schumann: Lieder (Transcriptions)
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 23 de jan. de 2009
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Folia
Concertos - Lançado por Sony Classical em 17 de jan. de 2011
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Gassenhauer
Nils Mönkemeyer, Maximilian Hornung, Nicholas Rimmer
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 16 de ago. de 2013
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Brahms
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 14 de ago. de 2015
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Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 17 de ago. de 2009
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Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1039, No. 3: Adagio e piano (Arr. for Recorder & Viola by D. Oberlinger & N. Mönkemeyer)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Nils Mönkemeyer
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 24 de mar. de 2023
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Barroco Español
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 15 de ago. de 2014
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William Walton, Max Bruch, Arvo Pärt
Classical - Lançado por Sony Music Classical Local em 11 de ago. de 2017
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Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical em 14 de ago. de 2015
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V. whale
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 18 de fev. de 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo