Ingolf Turban & Tomoko Sawallisch
Biography Ingolf Turban & Tomoko Sawallisch
Ingolf Turban
was born in Munich in 1964 and was admitted to Gerhart Hetzel’s violin class there at the age of 12. He attended masterclasses with Jens Ellermann and Dorothy DeLay in the USA.
In 1985, Ingolf Turban became First Concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic, and in 1986 he made his solo debut under the baton of Sergiu Celibidache in Munich. In 1988, he left the orchestra and dedicated more time to his solo career. In 1991, he made his debut at La Scala, Milan, and his USA debut in Washington. He appeared as soloist in the Berlin Philharmonie and the Munich Philharmonie, the Kennedy Center in Washington, New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna and La Scala in Milan with conductors such as Sergiu Celibidache, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, Jun Märkl, Yutaka Sado, Franz Welser-Möst, Andris Nelsons and Marcello Viotti.
Tomoko Sawallisch
Since her German debut with Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, she has performed as a soloist in Europe and Japan. She is increasingly enthusiastic about chamber music, for example in collaboration with Stephan Koncz, Ingolf Turban and Markus Wolf.
She was selected as a Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons in 2015 and thus belongs to another exclusive circle of internationally recognised pianists and artistic personalities.
Tomoko Sawallisch lives near Munich. In addition to her concert and teaching activities, she is a member of the advisory board of the Prof. Wolfgang Sawallisch Foundation and its representative in Japan. She is a member of the jury committee of the Osaka International Music Competition.
The former master student of Gerhard Oppitz, who received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of four, has won numerous prizes and awards in her home country of Japan.
