{"id":12800,"date":"2017-12-14T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtuosobelcanto.com\/en\/?page_id=12800"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:15:03","slug":"adrian-brendel","status":"publish","type":"docente","link":"https:\/\/www.virtuosobelcanto.com\/en\/docente\/adrian-brendel\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Brendel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1668794214873{padding-top: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17426&#8243; img_size=&#8221;400&#215;400&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_circle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1670870935449{padding-bottom: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Adrian Brendel<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221; el_width=&#8221;80&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669651771314{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of the most versatile and original Cellists of his generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled the world as soloist, collaborator and teacher. His early immersion in the core classical repertoire inspired an enduring fascination that has led to encounters with many fine musicians at the world\u2019s most prestigious festivals and concert halls. His discovery of contemporary music through the works of Kurtag, Kagel and Ligeti in his teenage years opened a new and vital avenue that he continues to explore with huge enthusiasm alongside his passion for jazz and world music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adrian first studied the cello with William Pleeth, with whom he developed a deep attachment to chamber music.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He then went on to study with Alexander Baillie and Frans Helmerson in London and Cologne, also frequently attending the masterclasses of Gyorgy Kurtag, Ferenc Rados, members of the Alban Berg quartet and his father Alfred Brendel. An acclaimed recording of Beethoven\u2019s cello sonatas with his father is available on the Philips label, recorded during their recital tours of 2003\/2004. Projects with contemporary composers and conductors during this time such as Kurtag, Thomas Ades and Peter Eotvos amongst many inspired him to cultivate new music in his concert programmes wherever possible. A recent three year project with Sir Harrison Birtwistle has led to premieres of his song cycle \u2018Bogenstrich\u2019 and a piano trio released on the ECM label in 2014. He also premiered York Hoeller\u2019s cello concerto \u2018Mouvements\u2019 in January of 2013 with NDR Hamburg alongside Bernd Alois Zimmermann\u2019s \u2018Canto di Speranza\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In great demand as a recitalist and soloist, Adrian works with Aleksandar Madzar, Imogen Cooper, Till Fellner, Tim Horton and Kit Armstrong. His chamber music partners include Henning Kraggerud, Lisa Batiashvili, Lars-Anders Tomter, Andrej Bielow, Katharine Gowers and Alasdair Beatson to name a few. Over the last two years he has visited the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Verbier, Ernen, Salzburg, Sonoro, Enescu, Schubertiade and Ruhr international festivals, and is a frequent visitor to London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and many other important venues in Europe. He has performed concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, RSNO, SCO and many orchestras across Germany and eastern Europe. His annual visit to the International Musicians\u2019 Seminar in Prussia Cove, founded by the late Sandor Vegh as a perfect environment for music-making, is of great personal and artistic importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adrian is artistic director of the Plush festival, held every summer in Plush, Dorset since 1995. The programme is devoted to classical and contemporary chamber music, Lieder recitals, modern jazz, folk and world music concerts, featuring over 100 contemporary works and 200 musicians from around the world. The summer of 2012 saw performances of Nancarrow, Cage, Brett Dean, Birtwistle, Lindberg, Carter and Messiaen alongside Schubert\u2019s trios, Janacek\u2019s quartets, Beethoven and Brahms. Performers over the years have included Radu Lupu, Mark Padmore, Paul Lewis, Louis Lortie, Miklos Perenyi, Anthony Marwood and Lawrence Power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fortunately for an itinerant musician, travel is a passion for Adrian. He has participated in musical outreach projects as far afield as Bolivia, Argentina, Ukraine, Romania and East Africa in recent years, for example to present Baaba Maal\u2019s Senegalese music festival from Podor for BBC Radio 4 in December 2012. He broadcasts regularly for radio stations around the world, most recently recording an album with Nils Wogram\u2019s modern jazz group Root70 for Deutschlandfunk in October. Attempts to broaden his and the cello\u2019s musical horizons have fostered projects with a range of different artists, more recently including Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen, Patti Smith and Argentinian Bandoneonist Marcelo Nisinman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Outside of his performing life, Adrian divides his time between south London, Berlin and Plush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20603,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-12800","docente","type-docente","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adrian Brendel - Virtuoso &amp; Belcanto Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuosobelcanto.com\/docente\/adrian-brendel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adrian Brendel - Virtuoso &amp; 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