Viola
Thomas Riebl
Repertoire: one piece by J.S.Bach and at least one other piece.
Thomas Riebl was born in Vienna. He studied with Siegfried Führlinger, Peter Schidlof and Sandor Végh. At the age of 16 he made his debut at the Konzerthaus in Vienna; since then he has given concerts all over Europe and in the USA (including the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, NY), with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Horst Stein, Edo de Waart, Sir Andrew Davies and Sylvain Cambreling. He was guest at many renowned international music festivals (e.g. Salzburg Festival), and performed with Jessye Norman, Brigitte Fassbaender, Auréle Nicolet, Gidon Kremer, Benjamin Schmid, Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Tabea Zimmermann, Natalia Gutman, Boris Pergamenschikow, Steven Isserlis, Sabine Meyer, Andras Schiff, Oleg Maisenberg, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lars Vogt and the Juilliard String Quartet.
Thomas Riebl won 1st prize at the international Naumburg viola competition in New York in 1982.
1972 - 1979 he was violist with the Vienna Franz Schubert Quartet ; 1979 to 2004 he was a member of the Vienna String Sextet. Since 1983 he has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and has given countless master classes at the most important international music universities.
He is the artistic director of the International Summer Academy Bad Leonfelden, Austria and has recorded numerous CDs. In 2010, together with master violin maker Bernd Hiller, he developed a five-string tenor viola, on which he played the Arpeggione sonata by F.Schubert, Beethoven's sonata op.5 / 1, the sixth cello suite and the viol sonatas by JSBach, the clarinet concerto by Mozart (in the original version for basset clarinet) as well as new works written for the instrument
German Tcakulov
Born in Vladikavkaz, Russia German Tcakulov began his musical education in his home town (violin, viola and piano). At the age of 15, he continued his viola studies with Prof. Vladimir Stopichev at the special music school of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, before transferring to the St. Petersburg Conservatory four years later. At the age of 21, he moved to Germany, where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in viola at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Tabea Zimmermann.
In 2013, he received a scholarship from the Lucia Loeser Foundation and has also won prizes at international competitions (including Charles Hennen in Holland, Jyväskylä in Finland, Mravinsky in Russia and the "start-up! music" prize from the Hanns Eisler University of Music). From 2018 to 2022 he is a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR). As an orchestral musician, he works with numerous world-famous conductors.
His chamber music partners include Stephan Forck, Ulf Wallin, Tabea Zimmermann, Claudio Bohórquez, Stephan Pickard and Frank van de Laar. Invitations to festivals (including Murten Classics, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, Otzberg Summer Concerts). Since 2021 he has been in charge of his own viola class at the Munich University of Music and Theater. From 2017 to 2022 he holds a teaching position at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and is assistant to Tabea Zimmermann. In summer 2022 he is appointed professor of viola at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. He recently received an appointment to the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
He plays a modern French viola by Patrick Robin.
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