Florian Uhlig & David Stromberg
Biography Florian Uhlig & David Stromberg
David Stromberg
Cellist David Stromberg seeks new listening experiences - whether with the baroque cello, the cello piccolo or the modern cello. He is fascinated by early music as well as new music, he searches for new forms of expression in improvisation, arranges well-known masterpieces so that they appear in a completely new guise, and he researches forgotten instruments.
Together with cellist Sebastian Hess, David Stromberg discovered the composer Emanuel Moór. They recorded a CD with solo and chamber music works by Emanuel Moór in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk. In the double concerto for two cellos they were accompanied by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.
Emanuel Moór developed the Duplex Piano, a piano with two manuals and special sound characteristics. In cooperation with Deutschlandradio, David Stromberg and pianist Florian Uhlig created this world's first CD with the Duplex Piano, on which the two artists present late romantic sonatas for cello and piano. It will be released in the spring of 2023 on the Oehms Classics label.
His CD "Transition" was also released in cooperation with Deutschlandradio. On it, he plays Schumann's Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, and other Romantic character pieces in his own arrangements for cello and wind quintet. David Stromberg published these arrangements with Sikorski Musikverlag. The CD became "CD of the Week" at SWR, reviews were published at NDR, SWR, Deutschlandradio Kultur and in print media such as "Concerti", "Die Welt", the "Wiener Zeitung" and the magazine "sonic".
The complete recording of the solo suites for cello by Johann-Sebastian Bach on baroque instruments was released in the summer of 2022 on the Oehms Classics label.
David Stromberg initiated the "Emanuel Moór Concert Series" in Hamburg, focusing on the Duplex Piano. The final concert in 2022 took place at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In this year David Stromberg made music together with Mirijam Contzen, Sophia Jaffé, Lena Neudauer, Hartmut Rohde. A radio recording of Deutschlandradio was made with the Hofer Symphoniker.
David Stromberg completed his cello studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Mehlhorn as well as at the Music Institute Schloss Edsberg in Stockholm with Prof. Frans Helmerson.
Improvisation has occupied David Stromberg for a long time and he gives master classes on "Improvisation of cadenzas in classical solo concerts" at conservatories.
Florian Uhlig
was born in 1974 in Düsseldorf. He studied in London with Peter Feuchtwanger and continued his studies at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he lives as well as in Berlin. He has received the „Fondation Européenne de la Culture" Prize as well as the Queen Elizabeth Rose Bowl and Stephen Arlen Memorial Prize of the English National Opera. He presents solo concerts worldwide: from Brussels to Johannesburg (Linder Auditorium) and Capestadt (Baxter Concert Hall), from Cologne (Philharmonic) and Lonodon (Wigmore Hall, South Bank and Barbican Centre) and Munich (Herkulessaal, Prinzregententheater) to New York, Paris, Prag (Rudolfinum) and Vienna (Musikverein).
Florian Uhlig has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, France Musiques Paris, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Strausstagen Garmisch, etc. He has recorded CDs among others for Hänssler Classsics and Wergo. Florian Uhlig is also a highly sought chamber music partner, also plays with Hermann Prey, holds master courses and is guest professor at international locations. Florian Uhlig's very extensive repertoire also contains contemporary music.
