Frank Peter Zimmermann

Frank Peter Zimmermann is widely regarded as one of the foremost violinists of his generation. He has been performing with all major orchestras in the world, among which the Berlin Philharmonic with whom he made his debut in 1985 with Daniel Barenboim, the Vienna Philharmonic with whom he played for the first time in 1983 with Lorin Maazel during the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all London orchestras, as well as major American orchestras. He is a regular guest at various music festivals, such as Salzburg, Edinburgh and Lucerne. In recent years he has been giving recitals with pianist Martin Helmchen and Dmytro Choni.

Together with Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Christian Poltéra (cello), he founded the Trio Zimmermann. He has built up an impressive and award-winning discography for Warner Classics, BIS Records, Sony Classical, Ondine, Hänssler, Decca, Teldec and ECM. He has recorded virtually all major concerto repertoire, ranging from Bach to Ligeti, Dean and Pintscher, the six Solo Sonatas of Ysaÿe, the 24 Caprices of Paganini, the complete Solo Sonatas and Partitas as well as the Sonatas for Violin and Piano by J.S. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.

Born in 1965 in Duisburg, Germany, he started learning playing the violin with his mother when he was 5 years old. He studied with Valery Gradov, Saschko Gawriloff and Herman Krebbers. He plays on the 1711 Antonius Stradivari violin “Lady Inchiquin”, which is kindly provided by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, “Kunst im Landesbesitz”.