Yorck Kronenberg & Christoph Seybold
Biography Yorck Kronenberg & Christoph Seybold
Christoph Seybold
Described by reviewers as a "dazzling artist" with an "exceptional musical maturity" (Pinchas Zuckerman) the German violinist Christoph Seybold has been garnering international praise for his poetic passion and technical mastery of the violin as well as for his charismatic personality and magnetic stage presence. His teachers included Jens Ellerman as well as Adam Kostecki and Zakhar Bron. Aditional musical input he got from luminaries such as Pinchas Zuckerman, Ida Haendl, Georgy Pauk, Shlomo Mintz and Victor Danchenko. His Debut Recording together with pianist Milana Chernyavska features works by Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Bach, Waxman and Strauss and was received with enthusiastic acclaim by the international press. („...a glowing performance...he exudes a refreshing youthful energy... projecting the maturity of Milstein“- Fanfare Magazin/ R.Maxham). His extensive repertoire encompasses 30 concertos and reaches from Bach to Shedrin who s violin Concerto he took up in his repertoire for the 2015 season. In addition to his brilliantly nuanced classical repertoire Christoph Seybold takes a lot of joy in the proccess of writing improvisations and arrangements for the violin by such diverse composers as Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Tschaikovsky, Dvorak, R. Strauss, Poulenc and Debussy. Recent performances have taken him to major concert venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Leiszhalle Hamburg, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater Munich, Glocke Bremen and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden as well as the Opera City Tokyo, CBC Toronto and venues in Lisbon, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Buenos Aires and Tel Aviv among others. He performs regularly with orchestras such as the Prague Radio Philharmonic, Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, Czech Radio Symphony, the Philharmonie der Nationen, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Bratislava Radio Orchestra, the Lisbon Chamber Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, Hannover Chamber Orchestra, the Heilbronn Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Herford and is a regular guest on Radio and TV.In addition to his regular concert schedule he was named Artist in Residence of the Ammersee Music Festival near Munich, where he will be playing chamber music with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and Bayrischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra.
Yorck Kronenberg
Born in Reutlingen, Germany in 1973, Yorck Kronenberg received his earliest instruction on the piano from Paul Buck in Stuttgart, and subsequently studied piano with Konrad Elser. He became known to a wider audience when he won the “Johann Sebastian Bach” international piano competition in Saarbrücken in 1998. A year later he received the Special Prize of the nationwide Wartburg Piano Competition in Eisenach, Germany.
Invitations followed to festivals such as the Mainz Musiksommer, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Roque d’Antheron Piano Festival. In addition to this he took part in numerous radio productions—including his recording of the piano concertos by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Igor Stravinsky with the SWR Rundfunkorchestrer, Kaiserslautern under Paul Goodwin in 2004/2005. His recording of several piano concertos by Joseph Wölfl with the same orchestra under the baton of Johannes Mösus will be released in 2008.
Currently, four recordings are available: Two CDs with piano compositions by J. S. Bach, a recording of modern classical works (on the Ars Musici label) as well as a CD of the final two piano sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert, released by Sony BMG in 2005. His recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue and the Italian Concerto, reYorck Kronenbergleased in 2002, were included with recordings by Glenn Gould and Leif Ove Andsnes in the “Selections of the Year 2002” on German radio station SWR2’s “Plattenprisma” program.
Yorck Kronenberg is also active as a composer and writer as well. He has participated in master classes with teachers such as Luciano Berio, and his work “Nachtstück” was first performed on the Saarländischer Rundfunk radio station as well as in concert in the US. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung has said of his debut novel “Welt unter,” published in 2002 by Edition Nautilus: “In his first work, Yorck Kronenberg has succeeded in presenting a thoroughly captivating and suggestively themed nocturne.” His story “Gegenlicht” appeared in 2005 in an anthology published by the Klaus Wagenbach publishing house. In 2007, the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin awarded him a working grant. He was accepted into the author support program of the Stiftung Niedersachsen in 2008.
