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Biography : Dávid ADORJAN Cello Born in Cologne, in 1972, from a family of renowned musicians, Dávid ADORJAN began studying cello at the age of 5. His teachers were Jan Polasek, Frans Helmerson and Heinrich Schiff. In 1986, he was laureate of the National Competition « Jugend musi¬ziert », and in 1993, he received the « Gasteig Prize of encouragement ». In 1994 he was awarded the First Prize of the Gorizia International Competition of Cello (Italy). Since 1996, he has frequently been a guest of the Symphonic Orchestra of Colo¬gne Radio, Symphonic Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio and the Staatskapelle of Dresde, where he often acts as a soloist and, in 1999, he was appointed first cello solo with the Berlin Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. He plays chamber music with Renaud Capuçon, Jörg Wid¬mann, Bruno Weinmeister, Heinrich Schiff and the pianists Alexander Lonquich, Oliver Triendl, Alexandre Rabi¬novitch, Paolo Giacometti and Anna Gourari. Moreover, he performs solo with different orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Turkey, Slovenia, Austria, Japan and Latin America, with directors such as Christopher Hogwood, Michael Gielen and Mariss Jan-sons. Numerous radiobroadcasts for BR, SWR, WDR in Germany, DRS in Switzerland, and CDs for CPO and Tho¬rofon labels attest the high artistic level of Dávid ADORJAN. In 1998, his interpretation of the Concerto for cello in A minor by Philipp Emanuel Bach with the Bach Collegium München and directed by Christopher Hogwood was recorded on television at the Prinzregenten Theater of Munich. Dávid ADORJAN plays on an instrument created by Carlo Giuseppe Testore (Milan, 1697). | |
