Skip to content

Thomas Zehetmair

Country: Austria

Thomas Zehetmair is an Austrian violinist and conductor, born in Salzburg on 23 November 1961. He studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and took master classes with Nathan Milstein and Max Rostal. He has recorded for ECM as soloist, as conductor and as leader of the Zehetmair Quartet, which he founded in 1994 and which usually plays from memory. Zehetmair's ECM albums include Bach's Sei Solo, Paganini's 24 Caprices, the Ysaÿe solo sonatas and Heinz Holliger's violin concerto Hommage à Louis Soutter. The quartet's Schumann album won Gramophone's Record of the Year award.