Vashti Hunter
Cellist Vashti Hunter currently works in Berlin as a soloist and chamber musician. She is the first British woman to win a prize at the Prague Spring International Cello Competition.
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Vashti Hunter has performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, the Moliere Hall in Lyon, the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, etc. She has performed as a soloist with the Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra from Debrecen, the Southbank Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra from Pilsen under the baton of renowned conductors such as Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Alexander Lonquich and Antonello Manacorda. She participated in many important festivals, such as the Festival Academy in Budapest, the festivals in Lockenhaus and Davos, the Heidelberg Spring and the Chamber Music Festival in Shanghai. In 2010, she founded Trio Gaspard with violinist Ionian Ilias Kadesha and pianist Nicholas Rimmer. The ensemble won first prize at the Haydn International Competition in Vienna and the Joachim Competition in Hanover, and regularly performs in prominent concert halls. In 2020, she joined the Hungarian Kelemen Quartet. During the epidemic, the musicians in the ensemble under the patronage of Hungarian musical legends Gyorgy Kurtag and Ferenc Rados studied and recorded all six of Bartok's String quartets. Since then, the ensemble has performed at the Music Center in Budapest, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy, the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and in Mantova. Vashti Hunter studied in London and Hannover with prof. Leonid Gorokhov and later in Berlin with prof. To Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. She recently became professor of cello at the private Anton Bruckner University in Linz, and also teaches at the University of Hannover and as visiting professor of chamber music at the Music School in Fiesolo, Italy. She plays a cello made by Testore from 1742, generously lent to her by a private sponsor.
Performs at the Maribor Festival
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Union Hall, Maribor
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Union Hall, Maribor