Faculty Summer Academy 2012
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Piano: Boris Berman, Klaus Hellwig, Matti Raekallio, Jacques Rouvier, Mikhail Voskresensky
Violin: Lara Lev, Josef Rissin, David Takeno, Krzysztof Wegrzyn
Cello: Lluis Claret, Dmitri Ferschtman, Maria Kliegel, Reinhard Latzko
Boris Berman, piano
Born in Moscow, Boris Berman studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Lev Oborin and graduated with distinction as both pianist and harpsichordist. He performed extensively throughout the former Soviet Union as a recitalist and appeared as guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Moscow Philharmonic and the Moscow Chamber orchestras. In 1973 he left the Soviet Union to immigrate to Israel, quickly establishing himself as one of the most sought-after keyboard performers and a highly influential musical personality. Presently residing in the USA, he continues to perform internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with the world's most prestigious orchestras and conductors.
Mr. Berman's acclaimed recordings on the Philips, Deutsche Gramophon and Melodia labels have been complemented with 2 CDs of the complete piano sonatas of Scriabin for the Music and Arts label and a recital of Shostakovich piano works (Ottavo), which received the Edison Classic Award in Holland. The recording of three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Neeme Järvi (Chandos) marked the beginning of an ambitious project of recording the complete Prokofiev solo piano works. The first pianist ever to undertake this task, Mr. Berman has released it on nine Chandos CDs to great critical acclaim. His most recent discography shows the breadth of his repertoire: a disc 'Debussy for Children' (Ottavo); two releases of works for prepared piano by John Cage (Naxos - named Top Recording by the BBC Music Magazine); piano quintets of Shostakovich and Schnittke with the Vermeer Quartet (Naxos); and a recording of Scott Joplin's Ragtimes (Ottavo).
A dedicated teacher of international stature, Boris Berman has served on the faculties of Indiana (Bloomington), Boston, Brandeis and Tel-Aviv universities. He currently heads the Piano Department at Yale School of Music. In 2000, the prestigious Yale University Press published his book 'Notes from the Pianist's Bench', in which Berman draws on his vast experience as performer and teacher to explore issues of piano technique and music interpretation. Mr. Berman is a frequent jury member of international competitions such as Leeds, Dublin and the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel-Aviv. Mr. Berman regularly gives international master classes and he was director of the Yale Summer Piano Institute (1990-92) and of the International Summer Piano Institute in Hong Kong (1995-97).
Klaus Hellwig, piano
Klaus Hellwig first came to international attention after winning prizes at the "Marguérite Long - Jacques Thibaud" competition in Paris and the "Viotti" competition in Vercelli/Italy. He studied with Detlef Kraus, Pierre Sancan (Paris), Guido Agosti (Accademia Chigiana Siena) and Wilhelm Kempff.
He has given concerts throughout Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia, Brazil, the Middle-East, and the Far East. He has appeared as soloist with important orchestras, such as the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the West German Radio Orchestra Cologne, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Munich, among many other German orchestras; the Hungarian Radio Orchestra Budapest, the Bucharest and Cracow Philharmonic Orchestras; the Baltimore and San Francisco Symphonies, among many others in America; and several Japanese and Korean orchestras.
Klaus Hellwig's chamber music partners have included the Philharmonic Octet and the principal wind players of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra's Octet, and the violinists Christiane Edinger and Young-Uck Kim. In addition, he has performed extensively with pianist Mi-Joo Lee as a piano duo.
Klaus Hellwig has recorded for all German radio stations, and for many others abroad. He appears on more than 25 records; the latest releases were the four concerti by Carl Reinecke.
After ten years as a professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Klaus Hellwig began teaching in 1980 at the Berlin University of the Arts. He has given masterclasses in Germany, France, the Ukraine, Rumania, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Australia, and the USA.
He has served as a jury member in many international competitions, such as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Leeds, the ARD competition in Munich (solo and piano duo), the "Busoni" in Bolzano, the Vienna Beethoven competition, the "Viotti" in Vercelli/Italy, the "Robert Schumann" in Zwickau, the “William Kapell” at the University of Maryland, “José Iturbi” in Valencia, the Seoul “Dong-A”, and the Sendai (Japan) competition; others include those in Monza, Seregno, and Orléans. In 2007 he will be on the juries of the "Tchaikovsky" (Moscow) and "Perlemuter" (Concours Européen de Ouistreham, France) competitions, in 2008 the "Schumann" (Zwickau) and Santander.
Meanwhile, his students continue to garner top honors at major international competitions, including first prizes at the Gina Bachauer and Queen Elizabeth Competitions.
Matti Raekallio, piano
Matti Raekallio's concert appearances have taken him as far afield as Japan, though he plays especially often in the USA. His engagements have included many of the leading music festivals, such as in Berlin's Klavierforum 1999, where he presented the 10 sonatas of Scriabin in one concert. His repertoire includes over 60 piano concertos, both standard repertoire including all the Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofieff concerti, and many rare works such as Hummel or Anton Rubinstein concertos, the Busoni Concerto, as well as several Finnish concertos. Solo recitals often concentrate on a single composer and genres, such as all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, which he has performed as a series eight times in all. His Beethoven cycles included a sold-out, eight-concerts-in-eight-days marathon, broadcast nationwide by PBS, at the first Irving S. Gilmore Piano Festival in the USA. He also plays practically the complete keyboard works of Prokofiev, the entire output of Finnish composer Toivo Kuula (which he also recorded for MILS) and all the Chopin and Liszt etudes.
He has made close to 20 recordings, mostly for Ondine label; the three-CD-series containing the complete Prokofiev sonatas has won particular international recognition. His CDs of Englund's Piano Concerti (Ondine, 2003) and of Palmgrens Third Concerto (Finlandia Label, 1989) were elected "Record of the Year" by the Finnish National Radio.
Helsinki-born Matti Raekallio has taught piano at the Sibelius Academy since 1978, where he was Acting Professor 1993-94, Associate Professor 1994-98 and Professor since 1998. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Western Michigan University (USA) 1984-85, the Berlin Hochschule der Knste 1998, the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and the Vienna Music Academy in 1999. Matti Raekallio is now teaching at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He has given summer schools and other master classes in Finland and the USA. He joins the International Holland Music Sessions since 2008.
Jacques Rouvier, piano
Born into a family of musicians in Marseille in, Jacques Rouvier has held concerts and master classes in France and abroad for some thirty years now. He studied with Vlado Perlemuter, Pierre Sancan, Jean Fassina and Jean Hubeau at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where he was awarded two First Prizes, in piano and in chamber music. He went on to an appointment as professor for piano there in 1979. A true virtuoso, he is the winner of the Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli, the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris.
In 1970, together with violinist Jean-Jacques Kantorow and cellist Philippe Muller, he formed the Rouvier-Kantorow-Muller Trio with whom he continues to perform on a regular basis. His discography includes over thirty titles, including the complete works of Claude Debussy. His recordings of the complete works for piano by Maurice Ravel, as well as sonatas for violin and piano by Ravel and Debussy, won the Grand Prix du Disque in France.
Concerts and masterclasses bring him all over the world. Former students include Hélène Grimaud and Arcadi Volodos.
Jacques Rouvier joins TIHMS in 2011 for the third time.
Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
Mikhail Voskresensky commands an international reputation as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under prof. Lev Oborin (piano) and prof. Leonid Roizman (organ). Prize-winner of Schumann International Competition in Berlin, International Competition in Rio de Janeiro, George Enescu International Competition in Bucarest and Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth.
In 1957 the young pianist took part in the Prague Spring Festival where he performed European premiere of Shostakovich Second Piano concerto with the presence of Shostakovich himself. Voskresensky’s concert geography is very large. He performed with more than 150 conductors in almost all countries of Europe and in Japan, Korea, China, Australia, USA, Mexico and Peru. He had wonderful critics in international festivals in Tours, Colmar and Aix-en-Provence: “Voskresensky is not only an outstanding virtuoso, he lives in music and plunges into its depths…” (Semaines Musicales, Tours). During his New York debut his performance of Liszt Sonata and 5-th Scriabin sonata was highly estimated. Voskresensky’s large repertoire includes all Beethoven sonatas, all works of Chopin, 64 piano concertos with orchestra, played with John Pritchard, Franz Konwitschny, Kurt Mazur, Stanislav Scrowachewsky, Eugeny Svetlanov, Charles Dutoit etc.
He recorded more than 50 CD’s. Among them, Liszt’s sonata b minor, all nocturnes, preludes and sonatas by Chopin, all sonatas and etudes by Scriabin, Schumann’s Carnaval op.9 and Faschingsschwank aus Wien op.26, Beethoven 3rd Concerto c minor, Brahms 2nd Concerto B flat major etc… Mikhail Voskresensky is a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory, the chair of the professorship of piano faculty. His pupils have won 114 international prizes including 49 gold medals. Between them Y.Favorin, A.Tebenihin, T.Erzhanov, Y.Kasman, A.Ghindin, S.Koudriakov, S.Kuznezov, G.Chistyakova, N.Khozyainov etc… From 2001 till 2004 prof. Voskresensky taught in Toho Gakuen University in Tokyo where his pupils had won 12 different prizes including Akiko Yamamoto’s triumph at Schumann International competition in Zwickau in 2004. As a competition jurist M.Voskresensky was in Sydney, London, Leeds, Geneva, Hamamatsu, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and many others. He will be a jury member of the next Tchaikovsky Competition and constantly is the chairman of Scriabin International Competition in Moscow. Recently he played the first concerto by Shostakovich in Beijing and the first concerto by Tchaikovsky in Shanghai under the button of Charles Dutoit. In the fall of 2007 during the celebration of the 100 anniversary of his teacher Lev Oborin, Voskresensky played in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory the 4th Concerto by Beethoven under the button of Vladimir Ashkenazy and the 2nd Concerto by Brahms with Leonid Nikolaev. In the 2010 he finished the performance and live recording of all 27 concertos by Mozart. CD’s are already published and available . All information is on the official website:
mikhailvoskresensky.com
Lara Lev, violin
Violinist Lara Lev was born in Siberia, in the former USSR. She studied in the Kazan Special Musical School with prof. Vadim Afanasiev, and later in the Moscow Conservatory. She graduated at the Gnesin Institute in Moskou with highest honors, receiving an Artist Diploma. Her teachers in Moscow were Prof. Jurij Yankelevich and Vladimir Spivakov. In 1981, she won the first prize in the Violin Competition of the Russian Federation. While in the USSR, she often performed as soloist with top-level chamber orchestras such as the "Moscow Virtuosos" with Vladimir Spivakov, as well as with the "Moscow Soloists", and with several symphony orchestras. She had for some time the position of a permanently engaged soloist of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra. Lara Lev has always had a special interest in seldom-heard, unjustly neglected masterpieces, as well as in new music. Already while in the USSR, she took an active part in the "Sojuz Kompositorov" society for contemporary music, giving first performances of several new works. During the Soviet era, however, political reasons made it impossible for Ms. Lev to pursue an international concert career.
Lara Lev performed with orchestra concerti of, among others, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Ernst, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Paganini, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Khachaturian, Britten, Elgar, Hartmann, Berg, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Schnittke, Busoni, Hartmann and Pfitzner. Since becoming Finnish citizen in the 1990's, she performed often in Finland with symphony and chamber orchestras many contemporary Finnish violin concerti. The conductors she has worked with include Vladimir Spivakov, Lev Markiz, Saulius Sondetskis, Georgi Godzheridze, Daniel Raiskin, Ari Rasilainen, Hannu Koivula and Heikki Rautasalo.
Lara Lev performed in recitals large cycles of the standard repertoire such as the complete 24 Caprices by Paganini, the complete solo violin music of Bach or the complete Beethoven sonatas. Together with pianist Matti Raekallio she has done several recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company, featuring major works for violin and piano, such as Shostakovich Violin Sonata op.134, Bartok's Second Sonata, as well as virtuoso miniatures such as the transcriptions by Jascha Heifetz. Her recording of the complete solo violin music of J.S.Bach was published in 2002 as a 2-CD set by Warner Classics (Apex). In 2004, it was followed by the publication of a Finlandia Records/Warner Classics CD of the complete violin-piano sonatas by Ferruccio Busoni, with Matti Raekallio. The CD was elected for "Strad Selection" by Strad Magazine and received a full five-star rating from BBC Music Magazine. Ms. Lev has performed with several other eminent pianists, like Cyprien Katsaris and Lexo Toradze. Starting in 2011, Lara Lev will begin her collaboration with Robert McDonald.
Lara Lev teached at institutes such as the Gnesin Institute in Moskou, the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany. In 2008, she joined the Chamber Music Faculty at the Juilliard School. Ms. Lev often gives master classes, e.g. in France (Colmar), Poland (Lancut), Israel, Germany, Slovakia, Finland and Spain. She has been a jury member of international violin competitions, and her students have taken many first prizes, such as in the Solo Violin Competition in Cremona, the International Lipizer Violin Competition, the Carl Flesch Competition, the Sarasate Competition and the Postacchini Violin Competition. Her recent performances include recitals in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Madrid, Vienna and Oslo. Ms. Lev is now resident in New York City.
Josef Rissin, violin
Born in Riga, Josef Rissin was a student of Boris Belenky at Moscow´s Tchaikovsky Conservatory and laureate of such international violin competitions as the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels and the Paganini in Genova. His concert activities have taken him to the music capitals of the former Soviet Union and throughout the West, and his performances and CD's have contributed to the interpretation of the classical Russian repertoire of the present day, alongside avand-garde Russian music. His CD of solo pieces by Hindemith, Ysaye and Paganini earned great critical acclaim.
Prof. Rissin leads violin classes at the University of Music Karlsruhe and at the University of Music and Theatre Zürich. His students come from all over the world and are winners of important international competitions. Among his most famous pupils are such yong violinists with an international reputation as Sergej Khachatryan, 1st prize winner of Queen Elisabeth violin competition in Brussels 2005, Koh Gabriel Kameda, Prof. Albrecht Breuninger, 2nd prize winner(Prix Ysaye) of Queen Elisabeth competition 1997, Maria-Elisabeth Lott, Linus Roth, among others.
website: www.rissin.com
David Takeno, violin
Born in Tokyo, David Takeno began to play the violin at an early age performing solos with orchestras from the age of eight, first in New Zealand and soon afterwards in America, Israel and Europe.
The main influence in his musical education was with Emmanuel Zetlin in Seattle in the 50s. During the 60s he moved to London, where he formed various chamber music ensembles and made recordings for the BBC. Since 1976, he has devoted his time to teaching and has taught at the Guildhall School of Music (for many years as the Head of Strings), the Yehudi Menuhin School and Cambridge University, as well as working with students from the specialist music schools of Chethams, Purcell and Wells.
His broad interest in and enthusiasm for music, past and present, have encouraged pupils in a wide range of fields, from Rachel Podger and Pavlo Beznosiuk in baroque performance to Anthony Marwood and Carolin Widmann who have championed many new works. Past students hold active positions in the profession, performing and teaching throughout the world.
In 1998 he was awarded the W W Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music by the Worshipful Company of Musicians and in 2009, the Golden Award from the University of Belgrade. He currently holds the post of 'Eugène Ysaÿe International Chair of Violin' at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Krzysztof Wegrzyn, violin
Krzysztof Wegrzyn was born in Gdansk in Poland. He began playing the violin at an early age, studying with Zenon Brzewski and Irena Dubiska in Warsaw, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg and Yfrah Neaman in London. He was a laureate in renowned international competitions like the Louis Spohr Competition in Montreal and winner of the Karol Szymanowski and Lipizer Competitions.
His concert activities have taken him around the world and he has made numerous recordings for radio, television and CD. In his broad repertoire he also gives special attention to works by Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Nono, Schnittke, Pärt and Penderecki. Krysztof Wegrzyn served for many years as concertmaster of the Hanover State Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra and since 1993 he has been a professor at the University of Music and Drama Hannover. Among his students are many who have won important prizes at international competitions.
Prof. Wegrzyn has given frequent master classes worldwide including at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Juilliard School in New York, at the Aspen Festival and in Seoul and Tokyo. He has been a juror at such esteemed violin competitions as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Kreisler Competition in Vienna, the Paganini Competition in Genova, the ARD Competition in Munich, among others. Furthermore, he is very active in chamber music, for example as the co-founder of the New Warsaw Piano Quintet. Since 1995 he has also served as artistic director of the Gdansk musical seminar and Spring Music Festival in Poland.
Krzysztof Wegrzyn is the founder and Artistic Director of the Hannover International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition. The State of Lower Saxony awarded him in 2004 the State Music Prize for his outstanding contributions to musical life.
Lluis Claret, cello
Born in Andorra in 1951, from exiled catalan parents, Lluís Claret begins his musical studies at the age of 9.
His musical future will be strongly marked by his contact with great teachers as Maurice Gendron, Radu Aldulescu and Enric Casals (Pablo Casals brother) who, besides not being a cellist, will be his principal musical adviser for many years. His meetings with György Sebök, Eva Janzer and Bernard Greenhouse will be also decisive for the development of his artistic personality.
First Prizes at Casals (1976) and Rostropovitch (1977) Competitions help to project his international career to the principal capitals of Europe, America and Asia, invited by orchestras like Washington National Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, English Chamber, France National Orchestra, and others from Tokyo, Seoul, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bamberg, Moscu, Madrid, Barcelona...Under the baton of Vaclav Neuman, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Pierre Boulez, Karl Münchinger, Dimitri Kitaienko, Sakari Oramo and Georges Malcom among others.
Chamber music and teaching are an important and essential part of Lluís Claret professional activity. He founded the Barcelona Trio (1980-1993), performs regularly with the pianists Josep-Maria Colom and Benedicte Palko and collaborates very often with other prestigious musicians at Festivals like Kuhmo, Naantali, Ernen, l'Epau, Pablo Casals (Prades), Granada, Seoul...
His is actually teaching at the "Victoria dels Angels" Music School at Sant Cugat (Barcelona) and the Toulouse Conservatory (France), and gives Master Classes in France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, USA, Japan and Korea. Together with Bernard Greenhouse he conducts a seminar at the Abbey of Fontfroide (France). Regularly Lluís Claret is invited as Jury Member of International Competitions ( Rostropovitch-Paris, Paulo-Helsinki, Pablo Casals-Kronberg, Adam- New Zealand...) and he is the Chairman at the International Cello Competition "Lluís Claret", City of Moguer (Spain).
His great interest in contemporary music brought him to a close professional collaboration with Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslawski, Kristoff Penderecki, Joan Guinjoan, Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez.
Website: www.lluisclaret.ad
Dmitri Ferschtman, cello
Russian-born cellist Dmitri Ferschtman received his musical education in the tradition of the Russian cello-school. Studying at the Central Music School with Melnikov and continuing his studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Kozolupova and Natalia Gutman.
During his studies Dmitri Ferschtman co-founded the Glinka String Quartet, which toured the Soviet-Union, Europe and the United States of America for twenty-three years extensively. All through his career Ferschtman has been an active chamber music player, performing at many international festivals with artists such as Charles Neidich, Elizabeth Leonskaya, Philipp Hirshhorn, Gidon Kremer, Mark Kaplan, Leonidas Kavakos, Boris Berman and Nobuko Imai.
Among the conductors with whom he worked, are Frans Brüggen, Hans Vonk, Bernhard Klee, Kent Nagano, Lev Markiz, Oko Kamu and Edo de Waart.
Dmitri Ferschtman has performed in all important halls in The Netherlands and abroad, with most of the leading Dutch orchestra’s, including the Radio Philharmonic, the Radio Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Residency Orchestra of The Hague, the Hallé Orchestra and the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz among others. He also gave recitals all over Europe and Asia. Recordings of Dmitr Ferschtman can be found at the Etcetera, Globe and Cobra labels.
For years he has been teaching at prominent conservatories of The Netherlands, including the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Many of his pupils have won prizes at Dutch and International competitions.
He has taught master classes in Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Greece, Japan and the United States of America (Boston NEC and Chicago).
Maria Kliegel, cello
After studying with Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Maria Kliegel won, amongst others, the 1st Grand Prix of the “Concours Rostropowitsch Paris” (in 1981). Mstislav Rostropowitsch thereupon engaged the services of his prize winner as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France for several tours through France and invited her to his orchestra in Washington D.C. He became one of her most important mentors.
Maria Kliegel – La Cellissima – since then an artist in demand throughout the world - started an unusually successful record career on the Naxos label in 1991 alongside her stage triumphs.
In this way, her recording of Dvorak’s and Elgar’s cello concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London has been maintaining its success as a bestseller for many years now. Or the composer Alfred Schnittke declared her recording of his 1st cello concert his reference work in 1992. In reviews and essays, the international trade press is constantly confirming the top quality of the violoncellist and praises many interpretations as exemplary and directional. Frequent honours followed, including 2 Grammy nominations. In the meantime, Maria Kliegel leads the market in cello literature with some 1 million CDs sold throughout the world.
In her multimedia book and DVD project Schott Master Class – Cello: Artistic Expression with Technique and Imagination about cello techniques and “famous – infamous” passages (played and analysed) published in 2006, she pursues completely new paths; and within the shortest time received 2 prestigious prizes for it: in Duesseldorf the special Digita prize (best German educational software) and in Berlin the European Media Prize Comenius EduMedia – Siegel.
Contemporary composers like to dedicate their works to the cellist. Wilhelm Kaiser Lindemann, for example, composed at her request Hommage á Nelson M. for cello and percussion. This musical reference to the civil-rights activist Mandela finds great attention internationally. After the premiere of this work in Capetown, South Africa in 1997, President Mandela reacted profoundly emotionally by inviting the artist to a private concert in his residence.
For her spontaneous commitment to the Nelson Mandela Children´s Fund and her untiring efforts for other relief projects, in 1999 La Cellissima received the Order of Merit of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia from the hands of the First Minister at that time, Wolfgang Clement. Since 1986 she has been professor at the Cologne Academy of Music and in 2001 established with Ida Bieler (volin) and Nina Tichman (piano) the Xyrion Trio, which undertook the artistic supervision of the Andernach Music Festival at Namedy Castle in 2007.
Maria Kliegel plays a cello made by Carlo Tononi, Venice, ca. 1730
Reinhard Latzko, cello
Reinhard Latzko was born in Freising (Bavaria). He studied with Jan Polasek,Martin Ostertag and Heinrich Schiff.
In the period 1987-2003 he was the principal celloist at the SWR-Symphony-Orchestra Freiburg (chief conductor Michael Gielen).
During 1988-2005 he was professor at the Music Academy Basel where he succeeded Boris Pergamenschikow.
From 1990 until 1993 he was tutor at the Gustav-Mahler-Youth-Orchestra with Claudio Abbado.
Since 2003 he is professor at the University of Music and performing Arts, Vienna.
Reinhard Latzko was winner of several national and international prizes (Geneva,Venice etc.). He lead masterclasses in Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Korea and Austria (Vienna Master Courses). He performed chamber music with Christian Tetzlaff, Heinrich Schiff, Ernst Kovacic, Christian Altenburger and others.
He performed as as soloist with the Basler Sinfonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie,Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and others. Latzko made various radio and CD-recordings.
