ARTISTS

at SCHLOSS ELMAU (Foto right)

Gidon Kremer was at the Festival in
SEPTEMBER 1999

After more than twenty five years of a remarkable career Gidon Kremer has now established a reputation as a personality of unique calibre - both as a violinist and as an artist who leads music in new directions. He has worked with virtually all the great orchestras in Europe and in North America, and he has made recordings which have set new standards in interpretation. His outstandingly wide repertoire contains, besides the music of the classical and the romantic period, music by the masters of the twentieth century. He is particularly committed to contemporary composers such as Schnittke, Paert, Gubaidulina, Kancheli, Nono and Adams.

Mario Brunello - Cello

Elba-Festival 1998 - Mario Brunello and the Moscow Soloist
with Y. Bashmet

In 1965 he was a student of Yuri Jankelevitch at the Moscow Conservatory. One year later Tretjakov already attracted worldwide attention when he carried off the First Prize of the "INTERNATIONAL TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION."

Esteemed as one of the premier violinists in Russia today, VICTOR TRETIAKOV came now to international
attention. A musician of extraordinary power and boundless virtuosity, Tretiakov has been lauded worldwide and has gained wider recognition and popularity during his concert tours, which have taken him to the United States, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and Latin America. His extensive repertoire encompasses not only the great Russian works, but Baroque and contemporary masterpieceds as well. His appearance in the United States have included a recital at Carnegie Hall and performances with the Pittsburgh, Detroit and Atlanta Symphony orchestras.

In 1994 he was soloist with the Kirov Orchestra under the direction of  Valery Gergiev on a US coast-to-coast tour. He has also played with renowned European orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic  Orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, NHK Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

In 1996 he was chosen as Musician of the Year, an annual prize awarded by the Russian music journal
"Muzikalnoje Obozenje."

For several years he has been teaching violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.

Apart from orchestra engagements, Tretiakov devotes himself to chamber music.

Six month after he received the top prize at the ALL UNION COMPETITION in Moscow.