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"Where words leave off, music begins." - Heinrich Heine

Thomas Zehetmair

Thomas Zehetmair has collaborated with almost all of the major orchestras and leading conductors and plays most of the violin repertoire from the Baroque (in historically informed interpretations) to contemporary composition. He has premiered violin concerti by James Dillon and Hans-Jürgen von Bose and, for ECM New Series, recorded the concerto by Heinz Holliger which was dedicated to him. Zehetmair’s account of the complete solo sonatas by Eugène Ysaye and of Paginini’s 24 Caprici each won him great critical acclaim. “Zehetmair’s achievement is to unite all conflicting creative currents into a single, surging flood of invention. The playing is so assured, so instinctively musical, that you take everything he plays on trust, believing with him that it is genuinely great music” – The Guardian on the Ysaye disc.