Conradin Brotbek was born in 1960
in Biel. He has instructed a concert
and soloist class for violoncello
and a chamber music class since 1987
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berne
and since 2001 at the International
Summer Academy in Lenk. In 2007 he
received a call to professorship for
violoncello at the State Academy for
Music and Performing Arts in
Stuttgart.
Conradin Brotbek plays the Joseph
filius Andrea Guarnerius cello «ex
Jules Delsar, André Levy» of 1700
and is the cellist of the Aria
Quartet Basel. As chamber musician
and soloist he played many concerts
at important festivals and music
centres of the world. Conradin
Brotbek's concert travels took him
through Europe, the near and far
east, Australia, China and USA.
Many radio and television recordings
as well as records and CD recordings
document his artistic work (ECM,
Novallis, Pan Classics, Derecha a.
o.).
Conradin Brotbek studied with
Stanislav Apolin and Marek Jerie
among others at the Music Academy
Lucerne where he attained the
soloist diploma in 1985 and received
the Edwin-Fischer Memorial prize of
the city of Lucerne. He studied
further with Pierre Fournier in
Geneva, with Janos Starker in Vienna
and with Jacqueline du Pré and
Wiliam Pleeth in London. He gained
lasting effect with the La Salle
Quartette, the Amadeus Quartette and
Franco Rossi (Quartetto Italiano).
Conradin Brotbek also works as a
composer and lives in Basel.
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