One of the finest young cellists of his generation and winner of the 2012 TONALi Grand Prix in Hamburg, Alexey Stadler opens his 2017/18 season with appearances in a number of high level engagements across Europe. Amongst them are Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

He caused a sensation in his BBC Proms debut with Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 with Vasily Petrenko. Other recent highly successful debuts include Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. 

Alexey Stadler also performs with orchestras such as The Mariinsky Orchestra, Münchner Symphoniker, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Rīga and Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra under renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Marek Janowski, Tugan Sokhiev and Dmitri Kitajenko. 

A keen chamber musician, Alexey Stadler has appeared in recitals and chamber music programmes at Den Norske Opera Oslo, Heidelberger Frühling and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and has performed with partners such as Janine Jansen, Akiko Suwanai, Vadim Repin, Igor Levit, Lukáš Vondráček, Itamar Golan and the Ebène Quartet. 

Alexey Stadler studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar and has a scholarship from the “Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung” and “Alfred Töpfer Stiftung” in Hamburg. 

Alexey performs on a violoncello by David Tecchler dating from 1715.