Frank Peter Zimmermann Violin "Zimmermann was sensational. His performance [ ] was an essay in passion and luminous beauty " ~Chicago Tribune "All his abundant resources of brilliance, precision and imagination go into making music." ~ The New York Times "Zimmermann lacks nothing in terms of violinistic ability, but he is unobtrusive in the best sense of the word, which means expressivity comes first, dazzlement later." ~The Plain Dealer Born in 1965 in Duisburg, Germany, Frank Peter Zimmermann started playing the violin when he was 5 years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. Since he finished his studies with Valery Gradov, Saschko Gawriloff and Herman Krebbers in 1983, Frank Peter Zimmermann has been performing with all major orchestras in the world, collaborating on these occassions with the world's most renowned conductors. His engage-ments, both with orchestra and in recital, take him to all major concert venu-es and international music festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan, South America and Australia. Highlights during the 2002/03 season include engagements with a.o. the Cleveland Orches-tra and Franz Welser-Möst, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Leonard Slatkin, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch and Christoph von Dohanyi, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, the Staatskapelle Dresden and Bernard Haitink and the Orchestre de Paris and Christoph Eschenbach. In February 2003 Frank Peter Zimmermann and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös will give the world premičre of the violin concerto by the German composer Matthias Pintscher. Apart from his many engagements with orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann gives numerous recitals worldwide. His interpretati-ons of the classical, romantic and 20th Century repertoire are received with great critical acclaim from press and public alike. Since 1998 his regular partner is the young Italian pianist Enrico Pace. Other regular chamber music partners are Heinrich Schiff and Christian Zacharias. Frank Peter Zimmermann was awarded the `Premio del Accademia Musicale Chi-giana, Siena 1990' . In April 1994 he received the important Rheinischer Kulturpreis 1994. For EMI Classics Frank Peter Zimmermann has recorded the concertos of Berg, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel (Tzigane), Saint-Saëns No. 3, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Weill. In recital with pianist Alexander Lonquich he recorded all Mozart and Prokofiev sonatas, a CD with works by Ravel, Debussy and Janacek and a CD with works by composers of the `Groupe des Six'. He made a highly impressive recording of the 6 solo sonatas of Eugčne Ysaye. Many of the above recordings have received prestigious awards and prizes worldwide. In September 2001 he recorded the violin concerto of Ligeti with the ASKO Ensemble and Reinbert de Leeuw for Teldec Classics, as part of their Ligeti cycle. The release is due in Autumn 2002. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays a Stradivarius from 1706, the `ex Dragonet-ti', kindly sponsored by the Westdeutsche Landesbank.