Faculty 2010

Cello:
Anner Bylsma • Jakob Kullberg
Reinhard Latzko • Harro Ruijsenaars

Conductor: Christopher Austin

Anner Bylsma, Amsterdam

Widely recognized as one of the leading Bach interpreters of today, Anner Bylsma is known for playing on both modern and authentic baroque style instruments. Bylsma has given masterclasses all over the world, the Paris Conservatory, the Berlin Hochschule and the Juillard School amongst them. He is the author of the book ‘Bach, the Fencing Master’, a stylistic and aesthetic analysis of Bach’s Cello Suites. In 1979 Bylsma recorded the first ever recording of the six suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach on a period instrument. He also made a second recording of the same in 1992 on the large ‘Servais’ Stradivarius and on a five string violoncello piccolo.

“We string players play the most beautiful instruments on earth! Only we can start a note from silence, and play with immense subtlety.” Anner Bylsma

Teachers in previous years

Bjorn Bantock • Valter Despalj • Ralph Kirshbaum
Mats Lidström • Morten Zeuthen