Biography

Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debut at 14 years old. He studied with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Musikhochschule Lübeck

Musikhochschule Lübeck

The Lübeck Academy of Music in Lübeck, Germany, is the only higher level music school in the northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein. The school is located in the World Heritage city of Lübeck, a historic hanseatic city. The school was founded in 1973 but its tradition goes back to 1911. The...

 and with Walter Levine at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

The University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music is the performing arts college of the University of Cincinnati and is one of the nation's leading music conservatories. In its most recent rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati sixth nationally among university programs...

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He is much in demand as a soloist with major orchestras of the world and praised for his recordings, including recent Beethoven works performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman

David Zinman

David Zinman is an American conductor and violinist.After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood...

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He plays a contemporary violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner

Stefan-Peter Greiner

Stefan-Peter Greiner is a successful German violin maker.He built his first violin at the age of 14. He did his training in Bonn, where his workshop is today....

 which he has had since 2002, preferring it to his previous Stradivarius

Stradivarius

The name Stradivarius is associated with violins built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial...

 instrument. He uses a Peccatte bow, and Vision strings by Thomastik-Infeld

Thomastik-Infeld

Thomastik-Infeld is an Austrian company founded in 1919, located in Vienna developing and producing strings and rosins for bowed and fretted string instruments....

 in Vienna.

His sister, Tanja Tetzlaff, is a professional cellist with whom he sometimes performs.

External links

• Christian Tetzlaff's biography on the website of his North American representation, CM Artists New York
• Christian Tetzlaff
• Homepage of Christian Tetzlaff