INTERVIEW
The most inspiring composer: Beethoven. Aside from the fact that we have the same birthday, his works have touched me more than those of any other composer.
The first piece of music you fell in love with: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. I was five years old when I first dared to ask my father who had written this piece that our living room resounded with so often on Sundays.
What would you do if you weren’t a musician? I would be a tax inspector or a meter maid. In other words: I’m only and entirely a musician. It’s a principle of life for me.
What makes a “perfect” concert? The moments of ‘imperfection’ that cannot be planned, moments of the greatest emotional inspiration and connectedness on a musical level.
What CDs would you want with you on a desert island? Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata with Gilels; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde with Flagstad, Melchior, and Reiner; Bach: The Art of the Fugue with Glenn Gould on organ and piano; Debussy: Complete Works for Piano with Gieseking.
BIOGRAPHY
Cellist Stefan Faludi was born in Neuss in 1976. He received his musical training from Professor Klaus Heitz in Hanover and later from Professor Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin, where he graduated with honours in 2002. He was honoured with first prizes at the national "Jugend musiziert" competition and at international competitions in Greensboro (USA), Heerlen (Netherlands) and Beauvais (France).
As a soloist, he has toured Germany, the Netherlands, North Africa and the USA, and performed the great works of Haydn, Boccherini, Beethoven, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Schumann, Brahms and Dvorak Cellist Stefan Faludi was born in Neuss in 1976. He received his musical training from Professor Klaus Heitz in Hanover and later from Professor Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin, where he graduated with honours in 2002. He was honoured with first prizes at the national "Jugend musiziert" competition and at international competitions in Greensboro (USA), Heerlen (Netherlands) and Beauvais (France).
As a soloist, he has toured Germany, the Netherlands, North Africa and the USA and performed the great works of Haydn, Boccherini, Beethoven, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Schumann, Brahms and Dvorak, the concerto by Gulda and "Casanova" by Johan de Meij in its German premiere, under conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Roberto Paternostro and others. In addition to numerous radio and television productions, he has recorded CDs with works by Dvorak, Saint-Saens and de Meij.
In chamber music, Stefan Faludi has performed with artists such as Thomas Brandis, Giora Feidman, Heinrich Schiff and others at the Rheingau Music Festival, the music festivals of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ludwigsburg, Aix-en-Provence (France), Bourglinster (Luxembourg), the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Berlin Philharmonie as well as in Africa and East Asia.
Stefan Faludi is a founding member of the MCO and has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2003. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and regularly works as a lecturer with students at the universities of Essen, Cologne, Aachen, Barcelona, Bogotá, Manchester and Melbourne. He plays a violoncello made by Auguste Sébastien Bernardel in 1868. the concerto by Gulda as well as "Casanova" by Johan de Meij in its German premiere. In addition to numerous radio and television productions, he has recorded CDs with works by Dvorak, Saint-Saens and de Meij.
In chamber music, Stefan has performed with artists such as Thomas Brandis, Giora Feidman, Heinrich Schiff and others at the Rheingau Music Festival, the music festivals of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ludwigsburg, Aix-en-Provence (France), Bourglinster (Luxembourg), the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Berlin Philharmonie as well as in Africa and East Asia.
Stefan is a founding member of the MCO and has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2003. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and regularly works as a lecturer with students at the universities of Essen, Cologne, Aachen, Barcelona, Bogotá, Manchester and Melbourne.
He plays a violoncello made by Auguste Sébastien Bernardel in 1868.
