Martin Ostertag (born in 1943) is a German classical cellist and music educator.
Born in Lörrach, Ostertag studied cello with Leo Koscielny at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and with André Navarra in Paris. In 1967 he was a prizewinner of the international competition in Vienna, and in 1968/69 he won the national selection of the Deutscher Musikrat Konzert junger Künstler. Afterwards he was first solo cellist of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Amati Ensemble Berlin, the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and finally from 1974 of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. He undertook numerous concert tours and gab master classes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, Italy and Japan. Since 1980 he has taught at the Karlsruhe Music Academy.
Together with Nicolas Chumachenco, Erika Geldsetzer and Benjamin Rivinius, Ostertag founded the Villa Musica String Quartet, with whom he won two ECHO Klassik prizes for recordings of Mozart's String quartets. His recordings of Bach's Cello Suites and Schumann's late pieces for cello and piano also received international acclaim. Ostertag plays an instrument from the workshop of Pietro Guarneri.
Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music.
David Geringas is a Lithuanian cellist and conductor who studied under Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1970 he won the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He also plays the baryton, a rare instrument associated with music of Joseph Haydn.
Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.
Will Sanders is a classical horn player, conductor, and music school professor.
York Höller is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
Hugo Becker was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.
Volker David Kirchner was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he worked for decades as a violist in the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. He was simultaneously the violist in the Kehr Trio founded by his violin teacher Günter Kehr, and a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
Troels Svane is a Danish cellist. He is a part of the Zapolski Quartet. He studied with David Geringas at the Lübeck Academy of Music in Germany. He graduated from the soloist class with distinction and the highest grade in all subjects. He was taught by Anner Bylsma, Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, György Ligeti, Yo-Yo Ma, Siegfried Palm, Boris Pergamenschikow, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, Paul Tortelier and the Amadeus Quartet.
Michael Sanderling is a German conductor and violoncellist.
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Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him. He was also Rektor of the Hochschule für Musik Köln and Intendant of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Christoph Poppen is a German conductor, violinist and academic teacher.
Frans Helmerson is a Swedish cellist, pedagogue, and conductor.
Michael Dussek is an English pianist specialising in chamber music and song accompaniment.
Danjulo Ishizaka is a German Cellist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
Fritz Magg was a renowned Austrian-American cellist, known for his career spanning over six decades as a soloist, symphony and chamber ensemble performer, and educator.
Hatto Beyerle is a German-Austrian chamber musician, conductor and university professor.
Konstantía Gourzí is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Rolf Riehm is a German composer who wrote stage and orchestral works as well as music for ensembles and solo instruments. He began as an oboist and music teacher and was later a professor of music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main for several years.
Peter Bruns is a German cellist and university professor.
