"To make the viola a viable solo instrument requires an exceptional player. In an often rewarding program, Hertenstein produced a consistently silken tone...and let loose some fireworks." --The Washington Post
First Prize Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, German violist Veit Hertenstein is one of the most exciting musicians on his instrument to emerge in years. Mr. Hertenstein made his New York debut at Merkin Hall in the Peter Jay Sharp Concert and his Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater this season presented by the Young Concert Artists Series. In his first season with YCA, Mr. Hertenstein performs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts (WA), the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. and the Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, as well as in the Young Concert Artists Festival in Tokyo, the Obernai Chamber Music Festival in France and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He was also awarded YCA's Slomovic Prize and seven performance prizes.
He has appeared in Switzerland at Seiji Ozawa's International Music Academy, the Menuhin Festival and the Verbier Festival, where he was awarded the "Henri Louis de la Grange" viola prize, in Germany at the Davos Festival, and at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont. Mr. Hertenstein has been a guest artist with the Trio Wanderer, the Modigliani Quartet, the Ysaye Quartet, and with violinist Midori in Japan.
In addition to winning a viola concerto commission from Pro Helvetia to be written by Swiss composer Nicolas Bolens, Mr. Hertenstein has won several prestigious competitions. In 2009 he was the first violist to win the New Talent Competition of the European Broadcasting Union. That year, Mr. Hertenstein was a prize-winner of the first Tokyo International Viola Competition, which led to engagements at La Folle Journée Festivals in Nantes, France, and Tokyo, as well as at the Viola Space Festival in Tokyo. In 2007 he was the first violist to win First Prize at the Orpheus Competition in Zurich, Switzerland, which brought him a debut recording on Euro-Classics.
Mr. Hertenstein has performed in master classes for György Kurtag, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gabor Takács-Hagy, Yuri Bashmet, and Kim Kashkashian and in turn has taught master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory.
Born in Augsburg, Germany, Mr. Hertenstein began studying the violin and piano at the age of 5 and switched to the viola when he was 15. At 19, he went to Zurich to study with Nicolas Corti, violist of the Amati Quartet. In 2009 he graduated from the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, where he worked with violist Nobuko Imai (YCA Alumna) and Miguel da Silva, violist of the Ysaye Quartet. He plays a 1701 David Tecchler viola.
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