Nicolas Altstaedt

Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt was born in Heidelberg to a family of German and French ancestry. He was a pupil in Marcio Carneiro's class at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold from 1996 to 2001, and he progressed to the City of Basel Music Academy, where he studied with Ivan Monighetti. Later, he worked with Boris Pergamenschikow, David Geringas, and Eberhard Feltz at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. Between 2003 and 2010, Altstaedt won prizes in several competitions, including the Concours d'Interpretation Musicale Internationale in Lausanne, the Kronberg Academy's...