Hartmut Rohde studied with Hatto Beyerle and participated in master-classes of Gérard Causse, Kim Kashkashian, Walter Levin and Pinkas Zukerman. He is currently professor of viola at Berlin’s University of the Arts and an honory member chamber music professor at the Royal Academy London.

He was first-prize winner of the German Music Competition, the International Academy Mozarteum Salzburg, and the prize for Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music at the Naumburg Competition in New York. As a soloist and chamber musician, Hartmut Rohde tours frequently in the United States, Australia, Europe, Korea and South America, performing in major festivals and collaborating with distinguished colleagues.He is a founding member of the Kandinsky-Streichtrio and the Mozart Piano Quartet.

He has recorded for EMI Classics, Decca, Arte Nova, Naxos, Musikproduktion Dabringhaus + Grimm, and the Freiburger Musikforum. In 2003 he received the Echo Classic Prize and the Super Sonic Award as well as the Best Chamber prize in the United States.

He currently plays on a viola by Michael Ledfuss, made in Zürich in 2002 and on a viola by Giuseppe Fiorini, 1899.

For further information please visit www.hartmut-rohde.de.

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