I hope you
are doing well and I’d like to say thank you all for listening. It is a
pleasure to see that the Master in Music podcast is reaching ears all over the
world. Thank you for listening and please, if you want to share something or
give me some tips on which guests to interview or feedback don’t hesitate to
write me on my website or Facebook, A Swedish Cellist Petronella Torin.
Today I
present for you the second amazing episode from Rutesheim special. Rutesheim is
a village in Germany where the Rutesheim cello festival is taking place every
autumn right around my birthday. The applications have just been open for this
year’s festival and what better way to celebrate this, than an interview from
one of the eminent professors, Claudio Bohórquez. He is a soloist, a chamber
musician, teacher and very good at table tennis. One of Rutesheim’s champions
if you ask me. I was very nervous to ask him to participate in the podcast, I
mean it is almost to good to be true that he said yes. He is not only an
awesome cellist, he also has a warm personality.
Claudio
studied with the legendary cellist Boris
Pergamenschikow. On his
way to become a great cellist he was successful in a lot of fantastic
competitions like the Rostropovich competition in Paris, the Tchaikovsky youth
competition and he achieved three awards in the Pablo Casals competition. A competition that was under the roof of the Kronberg Academy. Marta Casals Istomin presented Claudio
Bohórquez with the first prize, a special award for the best chamber music, and also
the use of Casals’ Gofriller cello for a period of two years. He also won first
prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, an achievement that started his
career as a soloist.
Today he is
part of the competitions as a member of the jury. He is also a professor
and has taught at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and is now
appointed to teach at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.
Claudio
still wins a lot of prices and awards but these days for his CD recordings.
He has also
recorded a soundtrack by Paul English to the
film "Ten Minutes Older - The Cello", which was shown in theatres
worldwide.
He travels
the world and plays as a soloist with orchestras like the Wiener Symphonic,
Tokyo Philharmonic orchestra, Los Angeles Symphonic and many, many more.
He is a
busy man, but we managed to get an interview with him and now we are going to
listen to his latest release, the Cello sonata by Johannes Brahms with his
friend and college on the piano Peter Nagy. Op 99 Sonata in F major Allegro
Vivace, enjoy.
Cello-Akademie-Rutesheim.de
ClaudioBohorquez.com
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