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

Nicolas Altstaedt

Nicolas Altstaedt, who makes his ECM debut here, was born in Heidelberg in 1982. He was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he is continuing his studies with Eberhard Feltz. He counts Mstislav Rostropovich, Tabea Zimmermann, Heinrich Schiff, Miklós Perényi, Steven Isserlis and Anner Bylsma amongst his influences. Altstaedt has already won many international awards including recently the Kulturstiftung Dortmund prize, and the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010. He is a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012, a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, and received a Borletti Buitoni Fellowship in 2009.