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cial importance to her, leading to collaborations
with Peter Ruzicka, Cristóbal Halffter, Peteris
Vasks and Michael Gielen, as well as premieres
of works by Alexander Goehr, Rolf Hempel and
Benedict Mason. During this season, a CD of the
Hindemith Sonatas will be released, played to-
gether with pianist Péter Nagy, and performances
or recordings of Concertos by Strauss, Busoni and
Ligeti will be a special focus.
Tanja Becker-Bender studied with the leading
quartet musicians of the world, with Wilhelm
Melcher (Melos Quartet) in Stuttgart, with Günter
Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) in Vienna, and with
Rober Mann (Juilliard String Quartet) in New
York. Important impulses came through Eberhard
Feltz and Ferenc Rados.
Already in 2006, she was appointed professor
at the University of Music in Saarbruecken, and
since 2009, she has been teaching as a professor at
the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg.
Daishin Kashimoto / violin
Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic,
Daishin Kashimoto studied with Prof. Naoko
Tanaka, a faculty member at the Juilliard School.
He was accepted by the pre-college division of
the Juilliard School as its youngest student and
received the Edward John Noble Foundation
Scholarship. He continued his studies in Ger-
many with Prof. Zakhar Bron at the Luebeck
Musikhochschule and at the Staatliche Hochs-
chule fur Musik in Freiburg under Prof. Rainer
Kussmaul.
In 1988, Kashimoto gave his first recital, as well
as his first concert as a soloist with the New York
Symphonic Ensemble in NewYork. Since then, he
has given recitals and solo appearances in theUSA,
the Far East and in many European countries. He
has performed with numerous internationally re-
nowned orchestras, including the State Symphony
Orchestra of Russia, St. Petersburg Philharmonic,
Radio Symphony Orchestras of Cologne, Frank-
furt and Moscow, Orchestre National de France,
Vienna and Berlin Symphony Orchestras, English
Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra,
Boston Symphony, under the baton of such great
conductors as Hugh Wolff, Lord Yehudi Men-
uhin, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Heinrich Schiff,
Mikhail Pletnev, Myung-Whun Chung and Yury
Temirkanov.
Daishin Kashimoto is first prize winner of such re-
nowned competitions as the 6
th
Menuhin Interna-
tional Junior Violin Competition (England, 1993),
the International Competition for Violinists (Co-
logne, 1994), and, in 1996, as the youngest winner
in history of both the International Fritz Kreisler
Violin Competition in Vienna and the Marguerite
Long – Jacques Thibaud International Competi-
tion for Piano andViolin in Paris. In 1994, Daishin
was awarded the Steigenberger Prize and the Da-
vidoff Prize, as well as the Brahms Prize (Germa-
ny, 1999).
Kashimoto signed a worldwide recording contract
with Sony Classical and has released two CDs
with Itamar Golan and a live recording with the
Staatskapelle Dresden and Myung-Whum Chung.
Boris Brovtsyn / violin
Boris Brovtsyn was born in 1977.After graduating
fromMoscow´s Central Music School in 1994, he
entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
where he studied with Maya Glezarova. During
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