Masterclass Violoncello
Prof. Alexey StadlerCourse repertoire: freely selectable
Masterclass, individual lessons, chamber music
Technique and interpretation
Workshops "Music and Language" and "Music and Social Engagement"
Registration also possible with other instruments
Participant's concert
Course start: Saturday, December 6, 2025, 3 pm
Course end: Thursday, December 11, 2025, after breakfast
€ 980,00 Course fee/active for professionals
€ 930,00 Course fee/active for students
€ 680,00 Course fee for passive participation
class
Alexey Stadler recently caused a sensation with his debuts at the BBC Proms with Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto under Vasily Petrenko, the Ulster Orchestra under the baton of Elim Chan, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Tugan Sokhiev, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Michael Sanderling.
The 2023/24 season holds a number of high-calibre engagements in store for Alexey Stadler. He will appear with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt.
Already an outstanding chamber musician, Alexey Stadler has performed with renowned artists such as Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Christian Tetzlaff, Igor Levit, Alice Sara Ott, Viviane Hagner, Lukáš Vondráček, the Ebène Quartet and the Szymanowski Quartet.
Recitals and chamber music concerts have taken him to festivals such as the International Chamber Music Festival Stavanger, St. Petersburg White Nights Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
As a soloist, Alexey Stadler has performed with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Riga Sinfonietta, the Nordic Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under renowned conductors such as Dmitri Kitajenko, Robert Trevino, Valery Gergiev and Marek Janowski.
Born into a family of musicians, Alexey Stadler began playing the cello at the age of four. He received his first lessons from Alexey Lazko and then continued his training at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School in St. Petersburg. He attended masterclasses with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Lynn Harrell, Steven Isserlis, Sir András Schiff and was a scholarship holder of the ‘Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation’, the ‘Alfred Töpfer Foundation’ and the ‘Martha Pulvermacher Foundation’ in Hamburg.
Alexey Stadler studied in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar, where he taught chamber music between 2020 and 2023.
He is actively involved in the organisation of the Krzyżowa Music Festival in Lower Silesia, Poland – his activities include leading symposia, artistic assistance as well as numerous social engagements.
Alexey Stadler has been a professor (violoncello) at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg since 2023. Alexey Stadler plays a violoncello by David Tecchler from 1715.