Cellist from Heidelberg; he received his first cello lessons there from Anna von Bülow and later studied with Maria Kliegel, Christoph Richter and Karine Georgian. In the late eighties he studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington; he studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. He is a prizewinner of the cello competition of the Society of American Musicians in Chicago, among others. In 2002 he was principal cellist at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein / Duisburger Philharmoniker; the Duisburger Philharmoniker list him today as principal cellist. On the albums Strings attached (2002) and New Chamber Music: Works by Hans Gal (2002) he plays duets by Pleyel, Fiorillo and Glière and a canon by Sibelius with the violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel, and Hans Gal’s Sonata for cello and piano op. 89 with the pianist René Lecuona.
Fulbert Slenczka
Cello
