Alban Gerhardt

Alban Gerhardt has gained recognition as one of the world’s most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his technical mastery, profound musicality, and insatiable artistic curiosity. Notable orchestral collaborators include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all the British and German radio orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. He has performed under conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski, and Andris Nelsons.

Gerhardt’s extensive repertoire includes all core concertos, and he is a go-to soloist for contemporary composers.

The 2024-25 season saw Gerhardt collaborating with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Munich Philharmonic, the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and Warsaw Philharmonic, among others.

A keen chamber musician, Gerhardt regularly performs with pianists Steven Osborne and Alexei Volodin, the Alliage Saxophone Quintet, and his new collaboration partner, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. The 2024-25 season took him to the Santa Catalina Festival, on tour around the U.K. with Steven Osborne, and to performances with the Seoul Philharmonic, Shanghai Concert Hall and New York’s 92nd Street Y, where he presented all the Bach Cello Suites in a solo recital.

Gerhardt also served as artistic curator of the Schumann Festival in Düsseldorf in June during the 2024-25 season.