KATHARINA DESERNO - Master class for Cello

THE MASTER CLASS IS CANCELED

Each active participant will get two lessons with Katharina Deserno.

Registrations are considered according to the date of receipt. All participants that are accepted will be notifified.

The cellist Katharina Deserno, born in Frankfurt on the Main, is famous for her wide repertoire and her exceptional concert programs as well as for her sensitive and expressive playing. Her new CD with works by Grechaninov and Rachmaninov which she recorder together with the pianist Nenad Lečić was just published at Kaleidos, first reviewers are talking about “perfect playing”, “perfection of technique” and “a wonderful program” (Rondo Magazine). On her Debut-CD in 2011 she presented music for cello and piano and cello solo by women composers around Clara Schumann and on following recordings for Kaleidos and Wergo music by Konrad Lang and Ludwig van Beethoven  and chamber music by Barbara Heller–the recordings include world-premieres and have been praised highly by the press.

International concert activity; as soloist i.a. with the Spanish National Orchestra, as chamber musician, and, in particular, since more than 10 years together with the pianist Nenad Lečić; numerous world premiers of works written for her; tours and festival invitations in Europe and South-Korea, CD-productions, radio broadcasts at WDR, Deutschlandfunk, Radio Clasica, ORF i.a.

Katharina Deserno received her artistic education in Frankfurt, Paris and Cologne from Maria Kliegel, Gerhard Mantel and Philipp Muller; further inspiration and artistic impulses from Jano s Starker, Siegfried Palm, Wolfgang Boettcher, György Kurtag i.a.

During her studies she was already working as assistant of Maria Kliegel. Being one of the youngest teachers, she started teaching a cello class at Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2008. Meanwhile, many of her students are prizewinners of international and national competitions. Katharina Deserno is regularly invited to give master classes for young cellists.

In 2014 Katharina Deserno received her doctorate in musicology. Her book about the History of Women Cellists which will be published by Böhlau.

In 2005, Katharina Deserno was offered a chair as professor at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She is artistic director of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt.