Tanja Tetzlaff

Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff is a frequent soloist with major orchestras in her native Germany and abroad. She is also an enthusiastic chamber music player, working with her brother, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, among others. A breakthrough for Tetzlaff was a win at the International Music Competition in Vienna, followed in 1994 by another at the ARD Music Competition in Munich, Germany. She made her recording debut in 1996 with an album of Haydn cello concertos with the Wiener Kammerorchester. Tetzlaff She served as principal cellist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and lives in that city with her husband, violinist Florian Donderer, and her family; in 2024, she became professor of cello and chamber music at the Hochschule für Künste there. That year, she (and Donderer) were heard on the album Serenade for Clarinet & Strings: Krenek, Gál, Penderecki.