Conradin Brotbek, Violoncello
Conradin Brotbek was born in 1960 in Biel. He has instructed a concert and soloist class for violoncello and a chamber music class since 1987 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berne and since 2001 at the International Summer Academy in Lenk. In 2007 he received a call to professorship for violoncello at the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.
Conradin Brotbek plays the Joseph filius Andrea Guarnerius cello «ex Jules Delsar, André Levy» of 1700 and is the cellist of the Aria Quartet Basel. As chamber musician and soloist he played many concerts at important festivals and music centres of the world. Conradin Brotbek's concert travels took him through Europe, the near and far east, Australia, China and USA.
Many radio and television recordings as well as records and CD recordings document his artistic work (ECM, Novallis, Pan Classics, Derecha a. o.).
Conradin Brotbek studied with Stanislav Apolin and Marek Jerie among others at the Music Academy Lucerne where he attained the soloist diploma in 1985 and received the Edwin-Fischer Memorial prize of the city of Lucerne. He studied further with Pierre Fournier in Geneva, with Janos Starker in Vienna and with Jacqueline du Pré and Wiliam Pleeth in London. He gained lasting effect with the La Salle Quartette, the Amadeus Quartette and Franco Rossi (Quartetto Italiano).
Conradin Brotbek also works as a composer and lives in Basel.
