German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is renowned worldwide for his creativity and versatility, in his captivating performances of repertoire on both gut and modern strings. Awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2010, he performed the Schumann concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival.
Since then he has been performing worldwide with orchestras like the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Czech and Netherlands Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Finnish- Berlin-, Vienna-, Stuttgart-and Frankfurt Radio Symphony, all BBC Orchestras, New Zealand and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Munich and Zurich chamber Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta with conductors like Sir Roger Norrington, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Fedosseev, Thomas Hengelbrock, Andrey Boreyko, Kristjan Järvi, Fabien Gabel, Giovanni Antonini, Alexander Shelley, Mario Venzago, Gustavo Gimeno and Lahav Shani, as well on period instrument with orchestras like „La Cetra“ and Andrea Marcon as well as „Arcangelo“ and Jonathan Cohen.