Kerstin Feltz
Cello
Kerstin Feltz, born in Jena, Germany, received her first cello lessons at the age of five. She studied at the “Franz Liszt” Higher School of Music Weimar, after attended the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire under Valentin Fejgin, whose assistant she became from 1985 until 1987.
Since then Kerstin Feltz has performed throughout Europe and the USA, in Mexico, Cyprus, Vietnam, China, Japan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Brazil.
She received the gold medal at the International Bach Competition Leipzig at the age of eighteen; won international prizes in Markneukirchen 1979, Belgrade 1984, Pablo Casals Competition Budapest 1985 and Tchaikovsky Competition Moscow 1986.
Since 1994/95 she is Cello Professor at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, Austria.