Gerhardt has performed as much unknown music as he has the great works for cello, both in solo recitals and with well-known conductors.

Alban Gerhardt, Berlin.

Alban Gerhardt, Fitzenhagen, Stefan Blunier, Tchaikovsky. Alban Gerhardt, Myung-Whun Chung, Sunwook Kim, Unsuk Chin, Wu Wei. Label : DG Format : Flac (image + cue) Cover : Yes. Continue reading →. Shostakovich, Schnittke – Cello Sonatas – Gerhardt, Osborne. 08 Saturday Apr 2017. Posted by Thang Nguyen in Hyperion. Alban Gerhardt, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Steven Osborne. Label : Hyperion Format : Flac (image + cue) Cover : Yes. Alkan, Chopin – Cello Sonatas – Gerhardt, Osborne.

Alban Gerhardt (cello). Described by The Guardian as ‘one of the finest cellists around-expressive, unshowy and infinitely classy’, Alban Gerhardt has, for thirty years, made a unique impact on audiences worldwide with his intense musicality, compelling stage presence and insatiable artistic curiosity. His gift for shedding fresh light on familiar scores and his appetite for investigating new repertoire truly set him apart from his peers.

Alban Gerhardt (born 25 May 1969, Berlin) is a German cellist. From a musical family, Gerhardt is the son of a mother who sang coloratura soprano, and his father, Axel Gerhardt, was a second violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for over 40 years. His brother Darius is a guitarist. Gerhardt took up both the piano and the cello at age eight, and studied with Marion Vetter and Götz Teutsch of the Berlin Philharmonic, and eventually began working under Markus Nyikos