Konstantin Sellheim
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Konstantin Sellheim (born 1978) is a German classical violist, who has appeared internationally with a focus on chamber music. He is a violist of the Münchner Philharmoniker, and lecturer of viola at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Sellheim began to play violin at age six. He studied violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. He then studied viola, from 1996 with Volker Worlitzsch of the NDR Radiophilharmonie, from 1999 with Hartmut Rohde at the Universität der Künste Berlin, from 2004 with Nobuko Imai in Amsterdam, and with Wilfried Strehle of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He was from 2004 violist with the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and from 2006 violist of the Münchner Philharmoniker.
He has played with his sister, the pianist Katharina Sellheim, as the Duo Sellheim. They recorded a CD, Fantasy, of works by Robert Schumann, Paul Hindemith and Rebecca Clarke. With the clarinetist László Kuti, they have performed as the Sellheim-Kuti-Trio. The trio recorded a CD, Märchenerzählungen (Fairy tales), including Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio, K. 498, Schumann's Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132, György Kurtág's Hommage a R. Sch., Op. 15d, Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, and Greetings from the Balkan by Béla Kovács. Sellheim also played chamber music with Giora Feidman, Igor Levit and Michael Schade, among others.
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