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Natalia GUTMAN |
Being taught by her grand father Anisim Berlin, and Professor Galina Kozolupova in her early childhood the most significant artistic influence on the musical personality of Natalia Gutman was performed by her teacher Mstislaw Rostropovich, her fatherly and congenial friend the late Svjatoslav Richter and Oleg Kagon her husband and famous violinist who died in 1990.
1967 she received the first prize in the Munich ARD Competition - a reward that can be regarded as the beginning of her international career. Since then she has performed in Europe, Japan, the USA, South America and Australia with orchestras such as Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony, Munich and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchest Amsterdam and many more. Festival appearances have included the Salzburg Summer Festival and the Sawallisch, Riccarda Muti, Claudio Abbado, Bernhard Ilaitink, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Yuri Temirkanov, Sergiu Celibidache, Mstislav Rostropovich and Kurt Masur. Natalia Gutman now regularly plays with the most prestigious orchestras all over the world. For 1999 Berlin Philharmonic is scheduled again.
Another main interest of Natalia
Gutman is chamber music, her regular partners have included Martha Argerich
and Eliso Virsaladze, Yuri Bashmet, Alexeij Lubimov, Svjatoslav Richter
and Oleg Kagan. She has premiered many contemporary works. Alfred Schnittke
has dedicated a sonata and his first Cello Concerto to her. The complete
Bach solo suites have been presented by Natalia Gutman in Berlin and Munich
and have just been heard again in Madrid and Barcelona.
In 1998 she has recorded the Shostakovich Concertos No. 1 and 2 with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov for RCA/BMG-Ariola. In
September 1989 Natalia Gutman signed a recording contract with EMI Classics
International. The Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Wolfgang Sawalllisch was released in autumn 1991 and June
1992 saw release of the Schumann and Schnittke Cello Concerto with the
London Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur.
The latest CD release by EMI Classics
presented the complete Schumann chamber music with partners such as Martha
Argerich, Misha Maisky and many others. Lately she records frequently
for Life Classics, a small company dedicated principally to the group
of musicians around Oleg Kagan.
Each year at the beginning of July Natalia Gutman invites her musician
friends to the International Musikfest in Kreuth in the Bavarian Alps,
which she founded in 1990 with - and then dedicated to Oleg Kagan.