Anja Lechner & Vassilis Tsabropoulos

Anja Lechner, cellist, was born in Germany and studied with Jan Polasek, Heinrich Schiff and Janos Starker, and was awarded a scholarship from the Deutsche Stuidienstiftung. She is the cellist of the Rosamunde Quartet which she co-founded in 1992. The quartet made its international breakthrough with festival appearances and, particularly, recordings with ECM. Prominent amongst these are albums with music of Haydn (The Seven Words), Shostakovich/Webern/Burian, and Valentin Silvestrov (the Grammy-nominated leggiero, pesante). A quartet album featuring the music of Tigran Mansurian is in preparation. Vassilis Tsabropoulos, pianist, born in Athens, is considered to be one of the greatest Greek pianists. He started playing the piano from a tender age. A prodigy, was winning music competitions from the age of ten, and after graduating from the Athens National Conservatory, continued his studies on an Aristotle Onassis Scholarship at the Paris Conservatory, the Salzburg Academy and the Julliard School, with great teachers including Rudolf Serkin and Tatiana Nikolayeva. His playing combines intellectual probity with warm and musical feeling, which is marked by sensitivity to tone color and delicacy of finger work. He has reputation as a classical pianist, an interpreter of 19th and 20th century music, and there is an internationally growing recognition for both his composing and his very special improvising piano playing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.