Alban Gerhardt
Cello
Alban Gerhardt has gained recognition as one of the world’s most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his technical mastery, profound musicality and artistic curiosity.
Notable orchestral collaborators include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all the British and German radio orchestras, Berliner Philharmoniker, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He has worked with leading conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski and Andris Nelsons.
This season he collaborates with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, Munich and Warsaw Philharmonic orchestras, the Hallé and Paris Chamber Orchestra.
He is a keen chamber musician and regularly performs with pianists Steven Osborne and Alexei Volodin, the Alliage Saxophone Quintet and new collaboration partner, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. This season he appears at the Santa Catalina Festival, on tour around the UK with Steven Osborne, in Seoul and Shanghai and at New York’s 92NY for the complete Bach Cello Suites; he was also Artistic Curator of the 2025 Schumann Festival in Düsseldorf.
His extensive, award-winning discography ranges from Bach, via the Shostakovich concertos to Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto, which was written for him.
Recent highlights include appearing as Artist-in-Focus at the 2024 Aldeburgh Festival and as the Duisburg Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence.
He is also passionate about outreach, performing in schools, hospitals and young offender institutions.
Alban Gerhardt plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dating from 1710.
Alban Gerhardt
Soddgrwth
Mae Alban Gerhardt wedi ennill cydnabyddiaeth fel un o chwaraewyr soddgrwth mwyaf amryddawn y byd. Mae’n uchel iawn ei barch am ei feistrolaeth dechnegol, ei ddawn gerddorol ddwys, a’i chwilfrydedd artistig.
Mae wedi cydweithio â Cherddorfa’r Royal Concertgebouw, yr holl gerddorfeydd radio ym Mhrydain a’r Almaen, Berliner Philharmoniker, Cerddorfa Turich Tonhalle, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España, Cerddorfa Cleveland, Cerddorfa Philadelphia, Cerddorfa Symffoni Chicago a Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Efrog Newydd. Mae wedi gweithio gydag arweinwyr blaenllaw fel Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski ac Andris Nelsons.
Y tymor hwn, mae’n cydweithio â Cherddorfa Symffoni Boston, y Gerddorfa Symffoni Genedlaethol, cerddorfeydd Ffilharmonig Washington, Munich a Warsaw, Cerddorfa Siambr Hallé a Paris.
Mae’n gerddor siambr brwd ac mae’n perfformio’n rheolaidd gyda’r pianyddion Steven Osborne ac Alexei Volodin, y Pumawd Alliage, Sacsoffon a’i bartner cydweithio newydd Ksenija Sidorova ar yr acordion. Y tymor hwn, mae’n ymddangos yng Ngŵyl Santa Catalina, mae’n mynd ar daith o amgylch y DU gyda Steven Osborne, yn Seoul a Shanghai, ac yn 92NY Efrog Newydd ar gyfer holl Gyfres Bach i’r Soddgrwth; roedd hefyd yn Guradur Artistig Gŵyl Schumann 2025 yn Düsseldorf.
Mae ei recordiadau helaeth ac arobryn yn cynnwys cerddoriaeth Bach, concerti Shostakovich a Choncerto Unsuk Chin i’r Soddgrwth, a ysgrifennwyd yn arbennig ar ei gyfer ef.
Mae ei uchafbwyntiau diweddar yn cynnwys ymddangos fel Artist Ffocws yng Ngŵyl Aldeburgh 2024 ac fel Artist Preswyl Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig Duisburg.
Mae’n gredwr cryf mewn mynd â cherddoriaeth allan i’r gymuned, gan berfformio mewn ysgolion, ysbytai a sefydliadau troseddwyr ifanc.
Mae Alban Gerhardt yn canu soddgrwth gan Matteo Gofriller sy’n dyddio o 1710.
