Antrittskonzert Prof. Tanja Tetzlaff

In the organizer's words:

The renowned cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been a professor at the Bremen University of the Arts since April 1, 2024.

At her inaugural concert on Thursday, December 5, 8 p.m., in the concert hall in Dechanatstraße, she will perform works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Ludwig van Beethoven as well as a solo work by Thorsten Encke, "Black Ice" for Cello and Tape (2018/20). She will perform together with Prof. Martin Stadtfeld, who has been Professor of Piano at the HfK since October 2023.

Tanja Tetzlaff has a wealth of experience as a soloist and chamber musician. She is familiar to Bremen audiences through her engagement with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others.

One of Tanja Tetzlaff's special qualities is her exceptionally broad repertoire. In addition to the major concertos of the standard cello repertoire, she is particularly fond of the cello concertos by Unsuk Chin, Witold Lutosławski, Jörg Widmann, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the double concerto for cello & percussion by Rolf Wallin. Tetzlaff plays string quartets and piano trios with enthusiasm and regularly performs at chamber music festivals.

In addition to presenting classical music, it is important to Tetzlaff to include other art forms in her work and to engage with current affairs. The topic of sustainability is particularly important to her. For her commitment to bringing the issues of nature conservation and climate change into the concert hall, she was appointed a lifetime ambassador by the "Orchestra of Change".

The artistic openness, creative power and the social role that the HfK Bremen plays as an art and music academy have convinced the cellist, among other things, to work as a professor in Bremen to promote music and knowledge transfer and to shape future generations of musicians:

"I am overjoyed to be taking on this wonderful role in my home city and am looking forward both to building an energetic and versatile cello class and to overseeing the chamber music department! I'm really looking forward to getting to know the students," says Tetzlaff.