Gary Hoffman
Visiting Professor in the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes
Gary Hoffman is one of the outstanding cellists of our time, combining instrumental mastery, great beauty of sound and a poetic sensitivity. He studied with Karl Fruh and János Starker. With 22, Hoffman became the youngest faculty member ever in the history of Indiana University School of Music. He gained international renown on being the first North American to win the Rostropovich International Competition in Paris in 1986.
A frequent soloist with the world’s most noted orchestras, he has appeared with the Chicago, London, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Baltimore and National Symphony orchestras as well as the English, Moscow and Los Angeles chamber orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Netherlands and Rotterdam Philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra for the Blossom Festival and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr Hoffman has collaborated with such celebrated conductors as André Previn, Charles Dutoit, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zukerman, Andrew Davis, Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Jesús López-Cobos and James Levine. He performs in major recital and chamber music series throughout the world, as well as at such prestigious festivals as those in Ravinia, Marlboro, Aspen, Bath, Evian, Helsinki, Verbier, Mostly Mozart, Schleswig-Holstein and Stresa, the Festival International de Colmar and the Festival de Toulon. He is a frequent guest of string quartets including the Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Brentano and Ysaÿe.
In 2011, Gary Hoffman was appointed Maître en Résidence for the cello at the prestigious Chapelle de Musique Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. As a visiting tutor, he regularly teaches the students of Kronberg Academy since 2008. He performs on a 1662 Nicolo Amati, the “ex-Leonard Rose”.
Verwandlungen
Participants
- Christian Tetzlaff violin
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Richard Goode piano
Programme
Anton Webern (1883–1945)
5 Movements for String Quartet, op. 5
Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904)
String Sextet in A major, op. 48
Intermission
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Concert introduction at 6.45 p.m. in the Great Hall
Subject to change.
Innere Gärten
Participants
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Steven Isserlis cello
- Richard Goode piano
Programme
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Quartet Movement in C minor, D 703
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
String Quartet in E minor, op. 121
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano Trio no. 2 in C major, op. 87
Concert introduction at 6.15 p.m. in the Great Hall
Subject to change.
Im Zeichen der Freundschaft
Participants
- Christian Tetzlaff violin
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Steven Isserlis cello
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
String Quintet in D major, K. 593
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)
String Quartet no. 2 in D major
Intermission
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44
Concert introduction at 5.15 p.m. in the Great Hall
The concert is part of „Ein Tag für die Musik“ / Musikland Hessen
Subject to change.