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5pm:
Young Masters Concert in Konzil Konstanz with UM-prizewinners of 2022/23: Simone Ceppetelli (violoncello), Pierina Däppen (violin), Teresa Gasieniec (violoncello), Artem Markaryan (piano) and Mateusz
Tomica (piano) and with Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz conducted by Eckart Manke.The winner Yang Wu (piano) will perform in 2025.

15th Uttwil Masterclasses 2024:
August 25th - September 1st 2024 with
Benjamin Moser
(piano),
Andrej Bielow
(violin) and
Danjulo Ishizaka
(violoncello)
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Emil Rovner

(Violoncello)

may currently be the only artist who is not only an internationally acknowledged concert cellist, but also an accomplished singer. He appears frequently as cello soloist and chamber musician and increasingly as a singer in operas and concerts, but also presents programs in which he functions both as a cellist and a singer. These unusual programs have been a resounding success with audiences and critics alike.
Emil Rovner was born in 1975 in Gorki (now Nizhni Novgorod, Russia) into a family of musicians. He began studying cello with Anatoli Lukianenko and conducting with Margarita Samorukova. While only ten years old, he debuted as soloist in a cello concerto by J. Haydn with the Gorki Philharmonic Orchestra. Three years later, he conducted this orchestra in a composition by C. M. von Weber. He continued his training as a cellist with Ivan Monighetti at the music academies of Madrid and Basel and with Boris Pergamenschikow at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. Following that, he studied singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Ulrich Messthaler.
Emil Rovner received numerous prizes at international cello competitions, including the First Prize at the J. Brahms Competition in Austria (1996), the First Prize at the M. Jost Competition in Lausanne (Patronage Lord Menuhin; 1997), as well as the First Prize and two Special Prizes at the renowned J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig (1998). He also received awards from the Migros - Genossenschaftsbund and the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds. Upon recommendation by Vladimir Ashkenazy, he debuted as soloist with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under Gary Bertini. He also appeared as guest soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Czech Chamber Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra, and performed in concert halls such as the Philharmonie Berlin, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, and the Tonhalle Zürich. In addition, he was invited to participate at well-known Festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the MDR-Musiksommer, as well as Gidon Kremer's Festival "les muséiques" in Basel. Recent appearances have included debuts in the Grand Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie (where he presented the German première of the cello concerto by Boris Tchaikovsky), and at the Lucerne Festival. He maintains close artistic contacts with important contemporary composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Frangis Ali-Sadé, Per Norgard, Tigran Mansurian, and Alexander Knaifel. Together with the violinist Kamilla Schatz, he frequently performs as a Duo, whose highly original programs have already won it wide acclaim throughout Europe.
Emil Rovner and Kamilla Schatz are co-founders and Artistic Directors of the international Culture Festival RESONANZEN, which has taken place annually since June 2003 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
 
In October 2007 Emil Rovner was appointed Professor and Head of the Cello Departement at the "
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
", Germany.

 
Emil Rovner plays a violoncello made by Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza in 1779.
 
Korrepetitor 2017:
Alla Ivanzhina

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