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. The distinguished string players invited to be part of the board are: Sonia Simmenauer (Germany), chair of the jury and founder of string quartet agency Impreseriat Simmenauer; violinist Sergei Bresler (Israel), founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet; violinist Karen Shahgaldyan (Russia/Armenia), performer at some of the world’s most esteemed venues; and cellist Raphael Wallfisch (UK), winner of the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition and founding member of Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch. ’Israel has a proven artistic legacy, with musicians travelling here from all over the w...
Tanja Tetzlaff. Photo: Giorgia Bertazzi The cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship. Worth €100,000, the award is designed to offer musicians ’the chance to realise ambitious and innovative musical media projects on the music of Bach or on music from the Baroque period’. Tetzlaff will use the fellowship to create, over two years, a film project relating the Bach Cello Suites to the themes of nature and climate change. Her proposal was selected last December by a selection panel including Weimar cultural director Julia Miehe; pianis...