The viola-player Hartmut Rohde began studying the violin and viola at the age of nine in Celle, as a pupil of Hatto Beyerle. He is now professor of viola at Berlin’s University of Arts and guest professor at the Royal Academy in London. He is a founding member of the Kandinsky String Trio and the Mozart Piano Quartet. He frequently tours the United States, Australia, Europe and Korea and has performed at the Salzburg, Berlin, Pablo Casals, Ravinia and Rheingau Festivals. Hartmut Rohde has recorded for Decca, Arte Nova, Naxos and Darbinghaus + Grimm. In 2003 he received the Echo Classic Prize together with the Leipzig String Quartet for their recording of Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Capriccio. He is winner of the first prize of the German Music Competition, the International Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music at the Naumburg Competition in New York. Hartmut Rohde plays a viola by Michael Ledfuss (2002) and a violin by Giuseppe Fiorini (1899).
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