1. Tanja Tetzlaff was born on 1973 and is a German cellist.
14 Facts About Tanja Tetzlaff
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Tanja Tetzlaff played first as an orchestra member, but then as a soloist, a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartet, a string quartet led by her brother Christian Tetzlaff, and as a chamber musician.
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Tanja Tetzlaff has recorded cello concertos and chamber music, including contemporary music, and has appeared internationally.
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Tanja Tetzlaff studied cello with Bernhard Gmelin at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in her hometown from 1985 to 1991, and studied further at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heinrich Schiff until 1996.
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Tanja Tetzlaff played as principal cellist of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
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Tanja Tetzlaff has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Vienna Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich.
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Tanja Tetzlaff appeared with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Orchestre de Paris and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Tanja Tetzlaff has toured internationally in Europe, the US and in Japan.
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Tanja Tetzlaff founded the Tetzlaff Quartet in 1994, a string quartet with her brother Christian Tetzlaff as the first violinist, Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister.
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Tanja Tetzlaff has performed chamber music regularly with pianists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Alexander Lonquich, Lauma Skride, Gunilla Sussmann and with Lars Vogt who founded the Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach.
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Tanja Tetzlaff has played with violinists including Baiba Skride and Antje Weithaas.
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Tanja Tetzlaff's repertoire is wide-ranging and includes contemporary music of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as a CD with the cello concertos by Wolfgang Rihm and Ernst Toch.
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Since April 2024, Tanja Tetzlaff has been professor of cello and chamber music at the University of the Arts Bremen.
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Tanja Tetzlaff plays an instrument by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1776.