April 18, 2011

The violinist Christoph Seybold was born in 1978 in Heilbronn, Germany. Described by reviewers as a "dazzling artist with a distinctive masculine violin sound" he has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel and Japan. Starting violin lessons at age 4, he continued at 11 in the Pre-College Program at the Freiburger Musikhochschule. Later he majored in violin performance at the Music Universities in Cologne and Hanover, where his teachers included Zakhar Bron and Jens Ellermann. He received additional musical input from musicians such as Pinchas Zuckerman, Shlomo Mintz and Ida Haendel .

His performances have recently taken him to major concert venues in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and Bremen. He performed with many orchestras, Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Philharmonie der Nationen , Württemberg Chamber orchestra, the Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Polish Chamber Orchestra among them. Other concerts took him to the stages of the Celibidache Festival, the Gran Canaria Music Festival, and the Chautauqua Music Festival.

Mr. Seybold has recorded for several German broadcasting companies including the ZDF, WDR, NDR Deutschland Radio Kultur. His CD recording released in 2010 for the label Genuin Classics contains works by Beethoven, Bach, Grieg and Waxman. It was enthusiastically received by both audiences and critics.

We'll hear the first movement, Allegro assai, of Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 8 (our library has the complete Sonata); the second movement, Improvisation: Andante cantabile, from Sonata for Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 18 by Richard Strauss, and Franz Waxman's Carmen Fantasy. Christoph plays a 1725 Antonio Stradivari, that was given to him on loan through Machold Rare Violins. He's accompanies by Milana Chernyavska. To listen, click here.

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