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„The cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is as an artist a category on its own.“
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Nicolas receives the International Classical Music Award 2023 in the category “Assorted programs” for his recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk and Ravel’s Duo Sonata with Pekka Kuusisto.
Upcoming deputs with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, Bamberger Symphoniker and Thomas Dausgaard, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with Thomas Adès, Touring with Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs Elysées and Philippe Herreweghe, EUYO and Giandrea Noseda, Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, reinvitations at London Philharmonic and Ed Gardner, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Andrew Manze and the OPRF Paris. Conducting at Tapiola Sinfonietta, Scottish and Munich Chamber orchestra.
Debuts 22/23 with Staatskapelle Berlin, on tour with Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic with Philippe Herreweghe, the Seoul Philharmonic and Osmo Vänskä in Salzburg and Musikverein Vienna; Sydney and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokio, Artist in Residence at Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, returning to DSO Berlin with Robin Ticciati, NZSO and Donald Runnicles, Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini
Conducting debuts with Budapest Festival Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic and Kyoto Symphony Orchestra
Debuts 21/22 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunk, London and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, RAI Torino, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Touring with Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Philippe Herreweghe and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Dima Slobodeniouk and the Orchestra of 18th Century, Reinvitations to NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and “Les Violins du Roy” for a Play/Conduct, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani
CPE Bach Cello Concerto A major recordings today in comparison in the BBC Record Review. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000w3wz “ The final choice is Nicolas with Jonathan Cohen - Conductor Arcangelo Taking risks without recklessness, adrenalin and architecture. The overall recommendation: It all comes together in here. Technique, blend, emotion, vision and extremes. Through these extremes they fulfill the Credo of the Empfindsamkeit. The music really does touch the heart without any simpering or overindulgence. They communicate the right smiles and wistful glances in such a way you don’t realize how swift you are being carried to the end. "
Nicolas receives Gramophone Chamber Award 2020 for his CD with the String Trio by Sándor Veress and the Piano Quintet by Béla Bartók. He curated the CD as part of the Lockenhaus Festival, where he has been named Artistic Director by Gidon Kremer in 2012.
Nicolas receives the Music Prize of Duisburg 2018. Previous winners include Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Alfred Brendel, Wolfgang Rihm and Krzysztof Penderecki.