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Katharina Uhde is the author of The Music of Joseph Joachim (Boydell & Brewer, 2018). She is Assistant Professor for Violin and Musicology at Valparaiso University. She holds a DMA degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Musicology from Duke University. As a soloist, quartet and piano trio member she has won first and second place prizes in international competitions in Prague, Germany, the Netherlands, and she has also won the 2004 University of Michigan Concerto Competition. She has released a CD Brasilianische Kammermusik and is preparing a Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle with R. Larry Todd for 2020. Her work has been supported by generous grants from Fulbright, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the American Brahms Society, and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Sanja – Božena Uhde, concert cellist, received her first cello lessons from Edvard Adamić, principal cellist of the Ljubljana Philharmonic and Opera Orchestra. She studied with internationally famous cellist André Navarra at the University of Music in Vienna with the support of a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Education. She later studied in Freiburg with the renowned Spanish cellist Marçal Cervera. She completed her training by attending courses at the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena with André Navarra and with Mstislav Rostropowitsch in Basel. Following her studies, she received inspiration from Pierre Fournier and William Pleeth. Solo performances with orchestra include the cello concertos by Haydn, Schumann, Brahms (double concerto) and Beethoven (triple concerto). Sanja – Božena Uhde is an active internationally sought-after concert cellist, whose career has taken her to numerous European concerts and to non-European countries such as the USA and Brazil, where she gave master classes at various universities. Sanja – Božena Uhde regularly teaches as a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Education.
Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University. His books include Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, described as ‘likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come’ (New York Review of Books), and Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, which received the ASCAP Slonimsky Prize. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center, he edits the Master Musician Series (Oxford University Press). He studied piano at the Yale School of Music and with the late Lilian Kallir, and has recorded with Nancy Green the complete cello/piano works of the Mendelssohns for JRI Recordings.
