Artist Information
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann (born February 27, 1965) is a German violinist.
He was born in Duisburg, Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10.
Since he finished his studies with Valery Gradov, Saschko Gawriloff, and Herman Krebbers in 1983, Frank Peter Zimmermann has been performing with a considerable number of major orchestras and conductors in the world.
Highlights include engagements with, among others, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Berglund, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Leonard Slatkin, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Bernard Haitink, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio and Mariss Jansons.
In February 2003, Frank Peter Zimmermann and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös gave the world premiere of the violin concerto ‘en sourdine' by the German composer Matthias Pintscher.
Apart from engagements with orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann also gives recitals. Since 1998 his regular partner is Italian pianist Enrico Pace. Other regular chamber music partners are Heinrich Schiff, Piotr Anderszewski and Christian Zacharias. His recording of the Brahms Double Concerto with Schiff won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.
For EMI Classics Frank Peter Zimmermann recorded all major violin concertos, as well as many major works for solo violin and for violin and piano. In 2002 Teldec released his recording of György Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
Frank Peter Zimmermann plays a Stradivarius known as the Lady Inchiquin , from 1711, which once belonged to Fritz Kreisler, and is sponsored by the Westdeutsche Landesbank.
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Events
Frank Peter Zimmermann has been scheduled to appear in 2 events since 2006.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Sat 13th November 2010, 7.30pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Sat 7th February 2009, 7.30pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
RSNO - The 08:09 Season The Great Concertos: Beethoven and Bartók
Links
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Releases
Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 & 2; Britten: Violin Concerto (cond: Manfred Honeck, Antoni Wit; orch: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic)
Album (2009)
