Jürnjakob Timm (born in 1949) is a German cellist and university lecturer. He played for over forty years in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Quartet.
Life and career
editBorn in Neubrandenburg, Timm studied from 1965 to 1970 at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and especially violoncello with Friedemann Erben. During his subsequent three-year aspirancy, he won several international competitions.
In 1973 he became first solo cellist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the same year a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In addition to his work in the orchestra, he also performed as a soloist. He played with various orchestras in Europe, Japan, South America and the USA. Especially during Kurt Masur's time as Gewandhauskapellmeister, he played solo concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He performed at the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as in Granada and Ann Arbor. In 1993 Timm was appointed solo cellist in the Bayreuth Festival orchestra.
In 1988 Timm was appointed honorary professor at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. Since 1986 he has also taught in Japan as a guest lecturer.
In 2014 Timm retired from the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Quartet for reasons of age. He is now a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet again as a guest.[1]
Recordings
editHis extensive discography includes recordings of cello concertos as well as chamber music, for example the concertos of Robert Schumann and Pyotr Tchaikovsky with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, by Eugen d'Albert with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Peter Rösel, Christian Funke and the Dresden Philharmonic as well as Günter Kochan's 2nd Cello Concerto with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, whose premiere he also performed.
Neben 25 Aufnahmen mit dem Gewandhaus-Quartett und Solostücken, wie Bach's Cello Suites, gibt es zahlreiche Titel mit verschiedenen Kammermusik-Besetzungen.
Family
editTwo of Timm's sons are also musicians.[2] Thomas Timm is the principal violinist of the Second Violin Group of the Berliner Philharmoniker. [3] Andreas Timm works as deputy principal cellist with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.[4]
Further reading
edit- Solo für Cello: Jürnjakob Timm ist seit 30 Jahren einer der zwei Ersten Solocellisten des Gewandhausorchesters. In Gewandhaus-Magazin, Nr. 38, Frühjahr 2003
References
edit- ^ "Gewandhaus-Quartett". Website Gewandhausorchester. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Ensemble Leipzig-Berlin". Urbanite. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Thomas Timm, 1st Principal Violinist". Website of the Berlin Philharmonic. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Andreas Timm, Stellvertretendes Solo-Violoncello". Website Konzerthaus Berlin. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
External links
edit- Literature by and about Jürnjakob Timm in the German National Library catalogue
- Jürnjakob Timm discography at Discogs
- "Biographie Jürnjakob Timm" (PDF). Orchesterzentrum NRW. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- "Jürnjakob Timm – Violoncello". Website des Gewandhausquartetts. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
