Prof. Winfried Rademacher

Vita

Winfried Rademacher studied with Josef Suk (Vienna), Sándor Végh (Salzburg), on courses with Nathan Milstein (Zurich) and with members of the Amadeus Quartet (Cologne). After winning numerous awards, including at the German Music Competition and the BBC in London, he has participated in international music life in many different ways.

He has held concertmaster positions in renowned orchestras such as the NDR Hamburg under Günter Wand, the Munich Philharmonic under S. Celibidache, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Claudio Abaddo, the SWR Stuttgart under Sir Roger Norrington and the Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman.

Norrington recruited him as concertmaster at the Camerata Salzburg in 1998. There he was also entrusted with the direction of the orchestra from the console, which brought him together with soloists such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Augustin Dumay. Since 2001 he has continued this work with the renowned Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

With these orchestras he has also performed numerous and critically acclaimed solo performances, with Heinz Holliger and Dimitri Sitkovetsky as partners.

Since his early membership in the Cherubini Quartet he has been a sought-after chamber musician.

As a violinist of the Linos Ensemble, the Freiburg String Sextet, as well as chamber music partner of Eduard Brunner, Radu Lupu, David Geringas, Sabine Meyer, Oleg Kogan, D. Ashkenazy, V. Mendelssohn and Bruno Giuranna he is a regular guest at important international music festivals (Berliner Festwochen, Lockenhaus, Gstaad, Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Musicades Lyon, Shanghai Festival, Kuhmo), Steven Isserlis has invited him once again to perform his "open chamber music" in Prussia Cove, England. Since 2004 he has been playing with the Razumovsky Ensemble London, with whom he made a successful debut at the wigmore hall.

Occasionally he seeks variety in cross over, sometimes he is on stage with the gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos, plays on a Tango CD, or plays the violin solos to C. Chaplin films.

Composers such as Isang Yun, Jean Francaix and Wolfgang Rihm composed for his ensembles, whose reputation is documented by numerous award-winning CDs (capriccio, EMI, Naxos, ambitus and CPO) and radio recordings.

The Capriccio label has just released a highly acclaimed "world premiere recording" of Alban Berg's violin concerto in a version for solo violin and chamber ensemble, a version of Max Reger's violin concerto will follow.

In 1986 he accepted a professorship for violin and viola at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, in 1993 he followed a call to the Musikhochschule Trossingen, since 2006 he is also a lecturer at the Razumovsky Accademy, London. He also conducts master classes at home and abroad.

Winfried Rademacher plays on a Nicolo Gagliano violin from 1733.

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