Prof. Tabea Zimmermann-Sloane

Prof. Tabea Zimmermann-Sloane received her first viola lessons at the age of three and began piano lessons two years later. She studied viola at the Academy of Music in Freiburg with Ulrich Koch and at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Sandor Vègh. She won first prize in many international competitions, including the International Concours in Geneva in 1982, at the "Maurice Vieux" International Viola Competition in Paris in 1983, where her prize was a viola built by the contemporary violin maker Etienne Vatelot, and in the Budapest International Viola Competition in 1984. Numerous prizes and awards in Germany and abroad, including the Frankfurt Music Award, Hessen Arts Award, Rheingau Music Award, the International Prize of the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Paul Hindemith Award of the city of Hanau. Artist in Residence in Weimar, Luxemburg and Hamburg, as well as 2010/11 two concerts in the Salzburg Festival and appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Gewandhaus leipzig and in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Numerous world premieres, e.g. the sonata for solo viola composed for her by György Ligeti, with first performances in London, Paris, Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Japan. Also Recicanto for Viola and Orchestra by Heinz Holligers, Viola Concerto No. 2 Über die Linie IV by Wolfgang Rihm, Monh by Georges Lentz, Notte di pasqua by Frank Michael Beyer and with Antoine Tamestit Bruno Mantovani’s double concerto. Over 30 CD recordings, including in 2009 a solo CD of works by Max Reger and Johann Sebastian Bach, for which she received the 2010 Echo Klassik award as Instrumentalist of the Year, in 2010 an album of sonatas by Johannes Brahms, Henri Vieuxtemps and Rebecca Clarke with the pianist Kirill Gerstein, a live CD of her concert in the Beethoven Haus in Bonn accompanied by Hartmut Höll, live recording of Hector Berlioz’ Harold en Italie with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis, and a recording of André Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Orchestra with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Steven Sloane. Tabea Zimmermann is a member of the Arcanto Quartett with Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec on violins and Jean-Guihen Queyras on cello. Numerous performances since their debüt in 2004, including the Carnegie Hall New York, the Vancouver Recital Series, the Gulbenkian Foundation Lissabon, the Palau de la Música Barcelona, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festivals in Helsinki, Edinburgh und Montreux, the Wigmore Hall London, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, as well as guest performances in Israel in 2008, Japan in 2009 and North America in 2010. CD releases of works by Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux and Claude Debussy. Tabea Zimmermann has held professorships at the Music Academies in Saarbrücken and Frankfurt. Since the winter semester 2002/2003 Tabea Zimmermann has been Professor of Viola at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.

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September 2011