Biography

Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Doerken Trio

Originally comprised of violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, the Trio made their debut performance at the Rheingau Festival in summer 2004. Since then they have performed to great acclaim in many of the major music centers in Europe and North America.

The Trio made their North American debut in February 2010 and since then have appeared in New York’s Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Orange County, Vancouver, Denver, Toronto, Princeton, Yale and the Library of Congress. During their fourth North American tour in the 22/23 season, they returned to San Francisco for three performances and made their debuts at Duke University as well as in Baltimore, Houston and Troy, NY and at New York City’s 92nd St. Y.

Equally busy internationally, the Trio has performed in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Bilbao and Luxemburg among other cities. The trio has recorded three CD’s on the Ondine label – the Dvorak Trios, The Schubert Trios, and the three Brahms Trios, which was nominated for a Grammy.

In September 2022, Lars Vogt tragically passed away from cancer. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff asked pianist Kiveli Doerken to join them during the April 2023 tour. Ms. Doerken was a star pupil of Mr. Vogt’s and both Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff worked with Ms. Doerken playing chamber music and recitals for a number of years. We are all grateful that she made herself available to participate in the April US tour, which was dedicated to the memory of Lars Vogt and the audience reaction to Ms. Doerken’s music making was so enthusiastic that the Tetzlaffs invited her to join the Trio on a permanent basis.


Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Giorgio Bertazzi

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Equally at home in the repertoire of classical and romantic music as well as the 20th century, Christian Tetzlaff has set standards with his interpretations of the great violin concertos with the world’s greatest orchestras. As a soloist and chamber musician, he regularly gives guest performances in all the major international music markets. He plays a violin by Peter Greiner.

Violoncellist Tanja Tetzlaff Giorgio Bertazzi

Tanja Tetzlaff, violoncello

Tanja Tetzlaff performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe as well as in the USA, Australia and Japan and is a regular guest at international festivals. Ms. Tetzlaff carries an unusually broad repertoire of standard cello works as well as compositions composed in the 20th and 21st century and is particularly active organizing and participating in ground-breaking concert productions which include other art forms and often focus on current events, like climate change. She plays a violoncello by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1776.

Pianist Kiveli Doerken Giorgio Bertazzi

Kiveli Doerken, piano

An active performer with orchestras and in recital in Germany, Kiveli Doerken dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music and performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Maximilian Hornung and Tanja Tetzlaff. She studied with Lars Vogt at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover and is also the Artistic Director of the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek Island Lesbos, a festival she founded in 2015.