During his last visit to Uppsala in September 2020, the coronavirus pandemic still had the concert world firmly in its grip. Christian Poltéra is now delighted to be returning to the local chamber orchestra without any restrictions. Under the baton of Mei-Ann Chen, he will perform Martinu’s Cello Concerto No. 1.

After performing together at the Hindsgavl Festival in Denmark this past July, Christian Poltéra and the Chiaroscuro Quartet are now reuniting for concerts in Germany and Luxembourg.
This week, they will perform a programme culminating in Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, D956, Op. 163, in Celle and Saarbrücken, before reuniting again in early December for a concert at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.

October 8th 2025, Celle
October 9th 2025, Saarbrücken
December 1st 2025, Luxembourg

Mario Venzago and Christian Poltéra are currently rehearsing with the Staatskapelle Halle in Halle an der Saale. On Sunday and Monday, they will perform two concerts focusing on Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto. Before this piece, Mario Venzago will present three orchestral works he composed himself, concluding the programme with Brahms’ First Symphony.

September 7th 2025, Halle
September 8th 2025, Halle

Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Killius are guests at the Bergkirche Büsingen Chamber Music Festival this weekend. Their artistic director Christian Poltéra will join them on Saturday in a string trio performing works by Mozart and Thomas Zehetmair’s own composition Passacaglia, Burlesque and Meditation. On Sunday, Ruth Killius and Thomas Zehetmair will present duos by once again Mozart, but also Nikos Skalkottas, Heinz Holliger and Bohuslav Martinu.

August 30th 2025, Büsingen
August 31st 2025, Büsingen

Christian Poltéra and his two celli are travelling to Denmark to take part in four different concerts at the quaint Hindsgavl Festival.
This weekend, Christian Poltéra will first support Christiane Karg and Wolfram Rieger as a guest in a piece by Ravel, before playing in a piano quartet with Carolin Widmann, Danusha Washkiewicz and Deniz Koszhukhin on Sunday.
Next week there will be a performance with the Chiaroscuro Quartet and Schubert’s String Quintet on Tuesday and finally a Brahms programme with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam, for which a Blüthner grand piano from 1859 will be delivered from the Breisgau region.

July 5th 2025, Concert with Christiane Karg et al.
July 6th 2025, Concert with Carolin Widmann et al.
July 8th 2025, Concert with the Chiaroscuro Quartet
July 9th 2025, Concert with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam

Christian Poltéra | Violoncello
Ronald Brautigam | Piano/Pianoforte

The two musicians are linked by a long musical collaboration in various formations, which has led to Poltéra and Brautigam also becoming friends over the years. The fact that these two know each other so well, both musically and personally, is immediately apparent in their music.

Program 1
Brahms Sonata No. 1 in E minor, op. 38
R. Schumann Five Pieces in Folk Style, op. 102
Liszt Elégie No. 1 S 130
Liszt Romance oubliée
Chopin Sonata G minor op. 65

Program 2
Beethoven Sonata No. 2 G minor op. 5
Beethoven Sonata No. 3 A major op. 69
Beethoven Sonata No. 28 A major op. 101
Beethoven Sonata No. 1 C major op. 102

Christian Poltéra is in the UK this week with his long-standing trio colleagues Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam. The three will present a program of works by Beethoven, Honegger and Schubert as part of the chamber music series at the University of Birmingham.

May 9th 2025, Birmingham

Christian Poltéra | Violoncello
Esther Hoppe | Violin

The two form a wonderfully harmonious duo and have been playing together for many years

Program

J. S. Bach Suite No. 1 in G major for solo cello
Honegger Sonatina for violin and cello H.80 -1932
J. S. Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin
Ravel Sonata for violin and violoncello (1920)

Andreas Staier is playing two harpsichord recitals in Italy this week.
First on Friday to celebrate the European Early Music Day in Padua and then on Sunday in Bologna, he will present programmes with works by J.C.F. Fischer, J.H. d’Anglebert, L-N. Clérambault, Georg Muffat and J.S. Bach.

March 21st 2025, Padua
March 23rd 2025, Bologna

Ronald Brautigam | Piano/ Fortepiano
Esther Hoppe | Violin
Christian Poltéra | Violoncello

Christian Poltéra and Ronald Brautigam have a long history of musical collaboration, which has also led to a close friendship over the years. Together with Esther Hoppe, a strong violinist, they form an accomplished trio.

The fact that the three know each other so well, both musically and personally, is immediately apparent in their music. They are perfectly attuned to each other. For the 25/26 season, they have chosen varied programs with works from the 19th century.

Season Program 26/27

Beethoven: Ghost trio No. 1 D major op. 70
Honegger: Sonatina for violin & violoncello
*Intermission*
Schubert: Piano trio No. 2 E-flat major D 929

Program 1 Brahms in Switzerland – 1886

Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F major for piano and violoncello op. 99 25′
Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A major for piano and violin op. 100 19′
Brahms: Piano trio No. 3 in C minor op. 101

Program without intermission

Program 2 Beethoven – 1814/15

Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in C major for piano and violoncello op. 102 No. 1 15′
Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G major for piano and violin op. 96 24′
*Intermission*
Beethoven: Piano trio in B flat major op. 97 Archduke 40′

Program 3 Mendelssohn’s Second

Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 in F minor for violin and piano op. 4 24′
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 in D major for violoncello and piano op. 58 24′
*Intermission*
Mendelssohn: Piano trio No. 2 in C minor op. 66 30

Program 4 Saint-Saëns’ First

Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 in C minor for violoncello and piano op. 32 20′
Saint- Saëns: Sonata No. 1 in D minor for violin and piano op. 75 24′
*Intermission*
Saint- Saëns: Piano trio No. 1 in F major op. 18

Further programs available upon request

“In perfect symbiosis with Juho Pohjonen, Poltéra breathes freely, combining density with flexibility and avoiding overloading humorous or ironic passages, without confining the work to overly conventional heroism.” (Diapason, 12/2024)

Christian Poltéra | Violoncello
Juho Pohjonen | Piano

Christian Poltéra and Juho Pohjonen last played together as part of Christian Poltéra’s residency at the Schwetzingen Festival, which turned out to be a wonderful opportunity to talk about new ideas, resulting in the following programme.

Prokofiev Ballad C minor op. 15
Elgar Violin sonata E minor op. 82 (Arr. for violoncello Poltéra)
***Interval***
Sibelius Malinconia op. 20
Chopin Sonata G minor op. 65

Christian Poltéra | Violoncello
Wolf Wondratschek | Recitation

Depending on the context of the event, the program and the reading can be adapted.

Program with piano
J. S. Bach Sarabande from suite No. 1 BWV 1007
Mara Sonata
Beethoven 7 Variations on In Men Who Feel Love from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, WoO 46
R. Schumann Fantasy pieces op.73
Lutosławski Grave (Metamorphoses for Cello & Piano)

Solo program
Suites by J. S. Bach and Britten

Alina Ibragimova | violin
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux| violin
Emilie Hörnlund | viola
Claire Thirion | violoncello

Christian Poltéra | violoncello

Program
Purcell Fantasias | No. 7 (Z. 738) | No. 8 (Z. 739) | No. 11 (Z. 742)
Beethoven String quartet in E flat major, op. 127
Schubert String quintet in C major D 956 op. 163

Esther Hoppe | Violin
Christian Poltéra | Violoncello
Pascal Moraguès | Clarinet
Juho Pohjonen | Piano

“Messiaen combines all of this into a sensual experience that directly appeals to the listener, which is played by Poltéra and friends with immense tension. The nuances of tonal colour that Pascal Moraguès is able to elicit from his clarinet are just as beguiling as the fine dynamic nuances of Hoppe and Poltéra. Beyond the detailed tuning, Messiaen’s cosmos of timbres is explored here.” (Rheinpfalz)

For most musicians who devote themselves to chamber music, there is no way around Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps. All the less so if, like Pascal Moraguès, you had the opportunity to work on the piece with the composer himself. With this unique background knowledge, Pascal Moraguès enriches this harmonious ensemble, which has come together for the first time for the Schwetzinger Festspiele.

Program
Schubert Piano trio B major D 898 op. 99
Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Christian Poltéra | violoncello
Munich Chamber Orchestra

As one of the most impressive cellists of his generation, Poltéra’s performances focus solely on the music: without grand gestures he reveals the essence of a work. His unique timbre is characteristic of his interpretations, which he knows how to masterfully adapt to epoch and style. One can look forward to an inspiring musical cooperation with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. The Munich Chamber Orchestra presents sophisticated works of earlier centuries and contemporary music, with a focus on communicative intensity and the highest musical level. Together, they recorded the Haydn Cello Concertos for BIS, which were published in Spring ’22.

Grieg Holberg-Suite op. 40
Haydn Cello concerto in C major Hob. VIIb: 1
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Haydn Cello concerto in D major Hob. VIIb: 2
Hindemith Trauermusik for violoncello and string orchestra
Haydn Symphony No. 43 in E-flat major Mercury

Esther Hoppe | Violin
Matthias Lingenfelder | Violin
Christian Poltéra | Violoncello

Christian Poltéra, Esther Hoppe and Matthias Lingenfelder from the Auryn Quartet have come together to form a string trio that not only finds a connection in the quality of the musicians, but also in their Stradivari instruments.

Haydn String trio No. 3 B-flat minor (Hob V:3)
Prokofiev Sonata for two violins C major op. 56
Ravel Sonata for violin and violoncello (1920)
Haydn String trio No. 4 E-flat major (Hob V:4)

Christian Poltéra is travelling to Ludwigsburg this week for the first stop on his tour with the Belgian orchestra Le Concert Olympique under the direction of Jan Caeyers. Also on board are Ilya Gringolts and Kit Armstrong, with whom Christian Poltéra will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

Next week, the journey continues to Leuven and finally to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg for the grand finale.

March 1^st 2025, Ludwigsburg

March 4^th 2025, Leuven

March 8^th 2025, Hamburg

This weekend Christian Poltéra has a home game performing at the Tonhalle Zurich. In his established trio with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam, he will present works by Schubert and Schumann in the series “Cosmos Chamber Music”.

December 15th 2024, Zurich

Christian Poltéra is spending this week with the high profile ensemble of Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit and Jean-Guihen Queyras. Together, these five will present a Schubert programme with his String Quintet in C major D 956 op. 163 at concerts at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Konzerthaus Wien, Camerata Musica Cambridge and Wigmore Hall London.

October 23rd 2024, Hamburg
October 24th 2024, Vienna
October 26th 2024, Cambridge
October 27th 2024, London

Christian Poltéra is spending this week in Taiwan as part of the Taiwan International Cello Festival. In addition to masterclasses and workshops, he will take part in concerts in Weiwuying and Taipei, playing works by Georges Bizet, William Walton and Manuel De Falla, among others.

October 9th-11th 2024, Masterclasses

October 12th 2024, Concert Weiwuying

October 13th 2024, Concert Taipei Morning
October 13th 2024, Concert Taipei Noon
October 13th 2024, Concert Taipei Evening

Christian Poltéra has a special engagement in Denmark on July 8th and 9th: Together with Esther Hoppe (violin) and Ronald Brautigam (piano), he will perform at the Hindsgavl Festival. The trio will play pieces by Haydn, Schubert and Schumann in a summery atmosphere.

After the Hindsgavl Festival, the trio will continue on to Lundsberg in Sweden, where they will perform at the newly founded festival “Sommarmusik Lundsberg”.

08 July 2024 Hindsgavl
09 July 2024 Hindsgavl
12 July 2024 Lundsberg

Today sees the release of Christian Poltéra’s new album on bis. He is known to be at home in many different repertoires and demonstrates this in his interpretation of various pieces by Sergei Prokofiev.
Together with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anja Bihlmaier, he presents the complex Sinfonia Concertante and, with pianist Juho Pohjonen, the poetic Cello Sonata op. 119. The recording is completed by the unfinished Sonata for Cello Solo op. 134 in a finished arrangement by Vladimir Blok.

Listen to the album

Christian Poltéra and the Chiaroscuro Quartet will be playing in three cities in three countries over the next seven days. The tour starts today at the Wigmore Hall in London before the five musicians travel to La Chaux-de-Fonds in French-speaking Switzerland on Sunday. The tour concludes next Thursday at the Mozarteum Salzburg. The programme contains Schubert’s String Quintet in C major D 956.

May 3rd 2024, London
May 5th 2024, La Chaux-de-Fonds
May 9th 2024, Salzburg

Christian Poltéra is travelling to Constance tomorrow to prepare Barber’s cello concerto with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie under the direction of Gabriel Venzago. Starting on Friday, this will then be presented in three concerts in Constance and one concert in Trossingen.

March 15th 2024, Constance
March 17th 2024, Constance
March 20th 2024, Constance
March 21st 2024, Trossingen

Christian Poltéra has released a new album with Ronald Brautigam on the label BIS. On it, the two familiar chamber music partners interpret cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the Five Pieces in a Folk Style by Robert Schumann.

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Go to the album at BIS eClassical
Go to the album on Spotify
Go to the album on Apple Music

After having started the year together in Boswil, the trio of Christian Poltéra, Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam will play 3 more concerts in the next 3 weeks.
First, they will stay in Switzerland and present programs of Beethoven, Schubert and more in Basel and Bülach. The latter composer they will als bring to their concert at the Wigmore Hall London.

January 16th 2024, Basel
January 27th 2024, Bülach
January 31st 2024, London

Christian Poltéra is finally back in Taiwan after several years. Together with the Taipei-born pianist Hu Jung, he will play two concerts in Kaohsiung and in the capital city. They will present a programme with cello sonatas by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.
Christian Poltéra will also take part in a workshop organised by the Goethe Institute and share his experiences.

October 13th 2023, Kaohsiung
October 17th 2023, Taipei

October 14th-15th 2023, Taipei (Workshop)

This July, Christian Poltéra will be travelling musically as well as geographically.

This weekend he will play two concerts with the Staatsorchester Mainz and Dmitri Jurowski. They will present Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante.

Just over a week later, Christian Poltéra will then take to the stage of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam together with Ronald Brautigam and perform works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt and Chopin. This program will be repeated in the Belgian coastal town of Knokke.

From there, Christian Poltéra will finally travel to East Frisia, where Wolf Wondratschek will be waiting for him to present the concert lecture on Christian Poltéra’s Mara-Cello at the Gezeitenkonzerte.

July 14th 2023, Mainz
July 15th 2023, Mainz

July 23rd 2023, Amsterdam
July 25th 2023, Knokke

July 26th 2023, Norden

Christian Poltéra is spending the week with the Niederrhein Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Mihkel Kütson. The audiences in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach will get to experience Barber’s Cello Concerto, which Christian Poltéra has recorded with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

June 13th 2023, Krefeld
June 14th 2023, Mönchengladbach
June 15th 2023, Mönchengladbach
June 16th 2023, Krefeld

This week there will be three concerts with Artist in Residence Christian Poltéra at the Schwetzinger Festspiele.
To start with, on thursday him and Ronald Brautigam at the pianoforte will present a colorful program with pieces by Brahms, R. Schumann, Liszt and Chopin.
On Friday, Christian Poltéra, Esther Hoppe and Juho Pohjonen will play Schubert’s Piano trio in B major before being joined by Pascal Moragues for the second half and Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
The last concert of the residency will be on friday. With the help of Wolf Wondratschek, who will read from his Mara-novel, Christian Poltéra’s famous cello will be brought into focus.

May 11th 2023, Duo
May 12th 2023, Quartet
May 13th 2023, Concert Lecture

Christian Poltéra is playing with the Hofer Symphoniker this week. Under direction of Hermann Bäumer he will present Sergej Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante.
For everyone currently not in the area there will be another chance to witness Christian Poltéra’s Sinfonia Concertante in July in Mainz, then with conductor Dmitri Jurowski.

April 21st 2023, Hof

July 14th 2023, Mainz
July 15th 2023, Mainz

Christian Poltéra and his recital partner Kathryn Stott are travelling to Rome and London this week. They will play at the Teatro Argentina and the Wigmore Hall and present programs with pieces by Brahms, Prokofjew and Chopin.

9. Februar 2023, Rome
13. Februar 2023, London

Christian Poltéra will spend this September at three different festivals in Austria and Switzerland.
This week he is in Graz at Arsonore to perform two concerts with among others Esther Hoppe, Sharon Kam, Markus Schirmer, Dominik Wagner and Petrit Ceku. They will play works by Ravel, Johan Halvorsen, Dvorak and Zemlinksy.
After that, he will travel to Zermatt Festival to teach academy students and also play concerts with the Zermatt Festival Orchestra and the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin.
Finally, Christian Poltéra will finish the month with a masterclass and a concert at Mendelssohntage Aarau, where he will perform pieces by Bach, Raff and Mendelssohn.

September 7th 2022, Arsonore Graz
September 8th 2022, Arsonore Graz
September 16th 2022, Zermatt Festival
September 18th 2022, Zermatt Festival
September 29th 2022, Mendelssohntage Aarau

On August 5th, Christian Poltéra’s new CD was released, which he recorded together with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. After Poltéra has oftentimes devoted himself to rarely heard and more recent repertoire, it was now time to eternalize both of Joseph Haydn’s cello concertos, with Hindemith’s Trauermusik completing the album published by BIS.
Further information can be found here as well as here the corresponding programme for the CD.

Christian Poltéra is travelling from Switzerland to Amsterdam and then Edinburgh together with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam.
At the renowned Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Edinburgh International Festival the trio will present a program with works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

August 6th 2022, Amsterdam
August 8th 2022, Edinburgh

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Today Christian Poltéra is off to Seoul to perform Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto on Thursday with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eun Sun Kim. After two postponements due to corona, we are delighted that the concert can finally take place!

21st July 2022, Seoul

In the upcoming 5 weeks Christian Poltéra will be playing concerts in 5 different countries.
Tonight, him and the Hagen Quartett will present Schubert’s String Quartet in C major op. 163 at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Austria.
Next week, he will then be at the Stadttheater Fürth next to Nuremberg for a concert with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and among others Haydn’s 2nd Cello Concerto and Hindemith’s Trauermusik.
After that, concerts will take him to Norway, Italy and South Korea but we will hear more on that at a later point in time…

June 22nd 2022 – Schwarzenberg, Austria
June 28th 2022 – Fürth, Germany
July 08th /10th 2022 – Rosendal, Norway
July 15th 2022 – Montebello, Italy
July 21st /22nd 2022 – Seoul, South Korea

This week the Schwäbische Frühling will take place in the illustrious city of Ochsenhausen, located along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. In his function as Artist in Residence, Christian Poltéra has been part of the developement of the program and will also participate in four concerts.
After the opening concert tomorrow night with Artistic Director Linus Roth, Esther Hoppe, Veronika Hagen and Kathryn Stott with works by Brahms and Haydn, Christian Poltéra will play Schubert’s Quintet in C major with the Hagen Quartett on Thursday.
On Saturday, he will present Bach’s Suites for Violoncello while Wolf Wondratschek will read from his novel about the famous Mara-Cello by Antonio Stradivari, which will also be present.
The closing night will then bring together the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Christian Poltéra to perform Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major.

May 25th 2022 Opening Concert with Linus Roth and more
May 26th 2022 Concert with Hagen Quartett
May 28th 2022 Concert Lecture with Wolf Wondratschek
May 29th 2022 Closing Concert with Stuttgarter Philharmoniker

As part of the well proven trio with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam, Christian Poltéra will play concerts in Bolzano and Martigny these days. Although the programs are the same in both places, consisting of pieces by Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the performances will be far from the same as Ronald Brautigam switches from modern piano to pianoforte when crossing from Italy to Switzerland, and thus also the strings will change from vegan options to gut.

April 28th 2022 Martigny
May 2nd 2022 Bolzano

Christian Poltéra is spending this week in Szczecin with the Filharmonia Szczecin. Under direction of Rune Bergmann he will perform Dvorak’s Concerto for violoncello and orchestra, which is replacing Tchaikovsky’s Rokoko-Variations in light of the recent events.

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March 4th 2022, Szczecin

This week, Christian Poltéra will be in Norway, in beautiful Stavanger. His schedule will contain a bit of everything: Chamber music, symphonic concert as well as a masterclass.
On Friday, after finishing the master class he will perform Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 under the direction of Tianyi Lu.
On the following day he will then play pieces by Honegger and Arensky together with musicians from the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, February 4th 2022, Symphonic Concert
Saturday, February 5th 2022, Chamber Concert

This week, Christian Poltéra will head off on a ten day tour through Europe. With an ensemble around Isabelle Faust he will perform Schoenbergs Transfigured Night and more. On most dates they will be accompanied by baritone Christian Gerharer. From Munich, via Cologne and Luxemburg they will travel to London and finally to Vienna.

In between, Christian Poltéra will be part of one of the concerts celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Neumarkter Konzertfreunde.

25.09. Munich
26.09. Cologne
27.09. Luxembourg
28.09. London
29.09. London
02.10. Neumarkt
03.10. Vienna

Despite continuing cancellations due to the pandemic, Christian Poltéra is looking forward to a variety of concerts and festivals during the last weeks of summer.
Next week he will be at the Moritzburg Festival to perform among other pieces Brahms’ string quintet No. 2 and Schostakowitch’s Cello Sonata.
Together with an ensemble led by Isabelle Faust he will then perform Schönberg’s Transfiguered Night at
Salzburger Festspiele and Schloss Elmau.
At the beginning of September he will travel back to Austria to play works by many composers like Rachmaninov, Haydn and Piazzolla at Musiktage Mondsee and Arsonore in Graz.

11./13./14./15.08.2021 Moritzburg Festival
25.08.2021 Salzburger Festspiele
30.08.2021 Schloss Elmau
01./02./03./04.09.2021 Musiktage Mondsee
08./09./11.09.2021 Arsonore Graz

With a special permit Christian Poltéra was allowed to travel to Finland to work together with the Sinfonia Lahti. Tonight he and the orchestra will play a concert under the direction of Anja Bihlmaier, which can be watched live on Youtube. They will perform and afterwards also record Sergei Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante.

11.03.2021 Lahti

Christian Poltéra is in the Netherlands this week to play together with the Het Residentie Orkest Den Haag. Under the direction of Richard Egarr he will perform Haydn’s 1st Cello Concerto at Concertgebouw Amsterdam. The concert will take place without an audience but can be listened to live on the radio at NPO Radio 4.

17.01.2021 Amsterdam Live-Stream

On Monday Christian Poltéra will start his shortened festival summer.
He’ll begin at styriarte and concerts with Esther Hoppe and Markus Schirmer and Schubert’s piano trio in E flat major.
In August, he will go to the Swiss “Musikdorf Ernen” for concerts with amongst others Paolo Giacometti and Alasdair Beatson and pieces by Dvorak, Beethoven, Ravel and more.
To finish of the summer, Poltéra will be in Graz for the Arsonore festival next to artists like Linus Roth, Sharon Kam or Benjamin Schmid.

13.07.2020 Styriarte
04.-12.08.2020 Musikdorf Ernen
09.-10.09.2020 Arsonore

During the next two weeks Christian Poltéra will perform three different cello concertos with three different orchestras:
On February 6th he will play Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante together with the Jenaer Philharmoniker and Jonathan Heyward.
The following evening him and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under direction of Yuki Kasai will present Haydn’s 2nd Cello Concerto at Stadthalle Germering.
Finally, on February 12th and 13th he will interpret Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto with the Duisburger Philharmoniker and Benjamin Shwartz.

06.02.2020 Jena
07.02.2020 Germering
12./13.02.2020 Duisburg

Together with pianist Kathryn Stott Christian Poltéra has attended to the violin sonatas of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms and recorded the respective D minor sonatas in his own arrangements for violoncello. As a special tidbit the CD closes with Clara Schumann’s song “Sie liebten sich beide”.
Pizzicato says: “You can literally feel that you are dealing with genuine and equal partners who can listen to each other and complement each other splendidly.”
The record is available everywhere as of today, here are further information.

Christian Poltéra kicks off the new year with a journey to Brasil to take part in the Ilumina Festival in and around São Paulo. At this chamber music festival he will play pieces by amongst others Bach, Ravel and of course Beethoven.

09.-12.01.2020 São Paulo

This week Christian Poltéra embarks on a tour through five cities: In Poitiers, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Essen he and Isabelle Faust will play Brahms‘ Double Concerto together with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Philippe Herrewgehe.

10.11. Poitiers
12.11. Nürnberg
13.11. Stuttgart
15.11. Frankfurt
16.11. Essen

This weekend, Christian Poltéra will play two concerts on top of Mount Pilatus next to Lucerne.
Together with Claire Huangci, Kim Bomsori and Stojan Krkuleski he will perform pieces by Beethoven.

12.10.2019 Pilatus
13.10.2019 Pilatus

This week Christian Poltéra will be performing just outside Munich in Grünwald, as well as in beautiful Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz together with Esther Hoppe and Ronald Brautigam. Their program will consist of Haydn’s piano trio E flat major Hob XV:29, Beethoven’s Trio “Ghost” op. 70 No. 1 and also Schubert’s piano trio E flat major D 929 op. 100.

19.09.2019 Grünwald
20.09.2019 Neumarkt

This Saturday Christian Poltéra will jump in to play with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées at Grafenegg Festival at the picturesque Wolkenturm. Under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe he will perform Brahms Double Concerto A major for violin, violoncello and orchestra op. 102 together with Carolin Widmann.

07.09.2019 Grafenegg

Christian Poltéra will be performing at the Kammermusikfestival Mortizburg as well as ARSONORE in Graz. He will be playing together with Mira Wang, Esther Hoppe, Linus Roth and Benjamin Schmid amongst others. The Programs span from Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven to Dvořák, Prokofjew and Schönberg and therefore offer a lot of variety, not only for the audiences.

14.08.2019 Schloß Moritzburg
16.08.2019 Schloss Proschwitz Zadel
17.08.2019 Evangelische Kirche Moritzburg
18.08.2019 Evangelische Kirche Moritzburg

03.09.2019 Grazer Schloss Eggenberg
04.09.2019 Grazer Schloss Eggenberg
06.09.2019 Grazer Schloss Eggenberg

Tonight the Swiss trio Esther Hoppe, Christian Poltéra and Francesco Piemontesi will terminate this year’s Montebello Festival at the stunning setting of Montebello Castle in Swiss Tessin playing Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major op.100. The concert will also be broadcast live on RSI/Rete Due.

July 12 2019, 08:30 pm, Montebello Castle/Bellinzona

Haydn Trio D minor XV 23
Janáček Sonata for violin and piano
Debussy Sonata for violoncello and piano in D minor
Dvořák Trio in F minor op. 65

Esther Hoppe, violin
Alasdair Beatson, piano

Beginning of April Christian Poltéra will be on tour with Alina Ibragimova, Nils Mönkemeyer und William Youn in Germany, Belgium and Norway performing pieces by Mahler, Mozart and Brahms.

02.04.19 Konzerthaus Dortmund
03.04.19 Konzerthaus Berlin
04.04.19 De Singel Antwerpen
05.04.19 Stadthalle Göppingen
07.04.19 Historischer Reitstadl Neumarkt
09.04.19 Laeiszhalle Hamburg
10.04.19 Gjøvik/Norway

midsummer music festival – programme tba

With Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante op. 125, Christian Poltéra and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the Kolarac Foundation Hall on March 1st.

01st Mar Kolarac Foundation Hall Belgrade

J.S. Bach Suite No.1 G major BWV 1007 for violoncello solo
A. Honegger Sonatina for violin and violoncello
J.S. Bach Sonata No. 1 G major BWV 1001 for violin solo
Ravel Sonata for violin and violoncello

Esther Hoppe, violine

Schönberg String Trio op. 45
J. S. Bach Goldberg-Variations BWV 988

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Antoine Tamestit, viola

Schönberg String Trio op. 45
J. S. Bach Goldberg-Variations BWV 988

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Antoine Tamestit, viola

Schönberg String Trio op. 45
J. S. Bach Goldberg-Variations BWV 988

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Antoine Tamestit, viola

Schönberg String Trio op. 45
J. S. Bach Goldberg-Variations BWV 988

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Antoine Tamestit, viola

Mahler Piano Quartet A minor (unfinished)
Mozart Piano Quartet G minor K 478
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 C minor op. 60

Alina Ibragimova, violin
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
William Youn, piano