British cellist Vashti Hunter will join the University for Music and the Arts of the City of Vienna from September 2024
Vashti Hunter has announced that she has been appointed as professor of cello at the University for Music and the Arts of the City of Vienna (MUK). She will begin the role from the new academic year and joins from the Anton Bruckner University of Music in Linz, where she taught for two years.
Hunter was born in London into a musical family and is currently based in Berlin, working as a soloist and chamber musician. She was the first British cellist ever to be awarded a prize at the International Cello Competition ‘Prague Spring’ in its 65 year history. Hunter studied in London and Hannover with Leonid Gorokhov and later in Berlin with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and counts Steven Isserlis as an important influence at IMS Prussia Cove.
Hunter co-founded Trio Gaspard in 2010 along with violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Nicholas Rimmer. The trio has won first prizes at the Haydn and Joachim international competitions and records exclusively for Chandos records. Hunter and Kadesha are also members of the Kelemen Quartet, joining founding members Barnabas Keleman and Katalin Kokas in December 2020.
Her additional educational work includes a teaching position for cello master students at the University in Hannover, as well as serving as guest chamber music professor at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy along with the other members of Trio Gaspard.
Hunter plays on a Testore cello from 1742, on generous loan by a private sponsor.
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