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Susanne Stanzeleit has dazzled audiences around the world with her artistry, energetic precision and passion. She is well known for her unusually challenging and extensive repertoire, featuring many commissions and UK premieres of works by composers such as John Adams, Lou Harrison, Gyorgy Kurtag, John Woolrich, Philip Cashian, Rebecca Saunders etc. In review of her recent release on Meridian of works by Enescu, The Strad remarked “Susanne Stanzeleit’s playing is stunning…this thrilling performer sweeps you off your feet…”, and BBC Music Magazine wrote that she “brings a spirited eloquence to these performances, revelling in the sonatas’ virtuoso demands as well as their atmospheric lyricism.”
She has appeared at numerous festivals, most notably in the UK at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Dartington International Summer School, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newbury, Canterbury, Swansea, York Late Music, IMS Open Chamber Music and many others. Internationally she has performed at Barcelona New Music, and at festivals in Ohrid, Varna, Riga, Italy, New York State, Cyprus, Malta, Dublin and Warszaw.
As first violin of the Werethina String Quartet for many years, Susanne Stanzeleit has won several prizes at international competitions, such as the London International String Quartet Competition in 1992. Between January 2000 and June 2002 she was leader of the Edinburgh String Quartet, one of the UK's leading and longest established chamber groups, with whom she enjoyed a busy performing schedule.
She is co-leader of Sinfonia 21 in addition to being a sought-after guest leader of orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John’s, the East of England Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, the BT Scottish Ensemble, the St Endellion Festival Orchestra, Capricorn, and many others.
A popular chamber musician, she has performed with eminent artists such as Gervase de Peyer, Eduard Brunner, Zara Nelsova, Colin Carr, Steven Doane, Norbert Brainin and Michael Collins, as well as regular pianist partners, Julian Jacobson and Gusztav Fenyo. Together with Susie Meszaros, Bernard Gregor-Smith and John Thwaites she has recently founded the Primrose Piano Quartet.
Susanne Stanzeleit regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, German Radio and other major TV and radio stations abroad. She has received rave reviews and a Gramophone Award nomination for her commercial recordings, which feature the complete works of Bartok on ASV and Enescu and Dvorak on Meridian, as well as a series of English sonata recordings for Cala/United and works by Charles Camilleri, on ASV and Meridian. With the Edinburgh Quartet she has recorded two discs for Meridian and a recording of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” for CasmaraRED. Future releases include quartets and chamber music by Kenneth Leighton, as well as the premiere recording of piano quartets by Hurlstone and Dunhill with the Primrose Quartet, all on Meridian.
Susanne Stanzeleit studied with Leonid Kogan, Nathan Milstein, Vesselin Paraschkevov, Yfrah Neaman, Sandor Vegh and Gyorgy Kurtag, and she is now regularly invited to teach and give masterclasses at summer schools such as Dartington, Paxos, Ayton, Paxton and others. From 1993-2000 she was visiting lecturer of violin and chamber music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. In 2002 she was appointed Head of Strings at the London College of Music and Media.
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