Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often become an existential experience for the interpreter and audience alike, old familiar works suddenly appear in a completely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto or the Violin Concerto No. 22 by Giovanni Battista Viotti, a contemporary of Mozart and Beethoven. To broaden his repertoire, he also commits himself to substantial new works, such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and performs approximately 100 concerts every year.

Christian Tetzlaff is regularly invited as Artist in Residence to present his musical views over a longer period of time, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. In the 2021/2022 season, he will have this honour at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Throughout his career Christian Tetzlaff has appeared with all the major orchestras and worked with the greatest conductors. In 1994, Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet, and every year he undertakes at least one extensive tour with the Tetzlaff Quartett, which was awarded the Diapason d’or in 2015 and his trio with his sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy award in 2016.