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”.
VON WIEN BIS ZUM MIDWEST
Participants
- Gidon Kremer violin
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Sir András Schiff piano
- Jason Moon violin
- Chiara Sannicandro violin
- Guido Sant’Anna violin
- Eike Coetzee viola
- Katie Liu viola
- Laura Liu viola
- Otoha Tabata viola
- Bryan Cheng cello
- Sebastian Fritsch cello
- Julius Asal piano
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano quartet No. 1 in g minor KV 478
Guido Sant’Anna (violin)
Otoha Tabata (viola)
Sebastian Fritsch (cello)
Sir András Schiff (piano)
John Harbison (* 1938)
„November 19, 1828“ for string trio and piano
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Katie Liu (viola)
Bryan Cheng (cello)
Julius Asal (piano)
Intermission
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
String quintet No. 3 in E flat major op. 97
Chiara Sannicandro, Jason Moon (violin)
Laura Liu, Eike Coetzee (viola)
Gary Hoffman (cello)
Subject to change.
MUSIKALISCHE REISELUST
Participants
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Miklós Perényi cello
- Sarah Jégou-Sageman violin
- Yeyeong Jin violin
- Evan Johanson violin
- Seohyun Kim violin
- Edgar Francis viola
- Katie Liu viola
- Itai Navon piano
Programme
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)
String quintet in C major op. 29
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, Yeyeong Jin (violin)
Edgar Francis, Katie Liu (viola)
Gary Hoffman (cello)
Intermission
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Suite for two violins, cello and piano (left hand) op. 23
Evan Johanson, Seohyun Kim (violin)
Miklós Perényi (cello)
Itai Navon (piano)
Subject to change.
ROMANTISCHE GIPFEL
Participants
- Gary Hoffman cello
- Sir András Schiff piano
- Leonhard Baumgartner violin
- Sarah Jégou-Sageman violin
- Michael Shaham violin
- Toby Cook viola
- Laura Liu viola
- Bryan Cheng cello
- Macintyre Taback cello
Programme
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano trio No. 3 in g minor op. 110
Sarah Jégou-Sageman (violin)
Bryan Cheng (cello)
Sir András Schiff (piano)
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
String sextet No. 2 in G major op. 36
Michael Shaham, Leonhard Baumgartner (violin)
Laura Liu, Toby Cook (viola)
Gary Hoffman, Macintyre Taback (cello)
Subject to change.