Jürnjakob Timm (born in 1949) is a German

cellist The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

and university lecturer. He played for over forty years in the

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...

and the Gewandhaus Quartet.

Life and career

Born in

Neubrandenburg Neubrandenburg (, Low German ''Niegenbramborg'', both lit. ''New Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg'') is a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the shore of a lake called Tollensesee and forms the urban c ...

, Timm studied from 1965 to 1970 at the

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...

and especially

violoncello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C ...

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 Kurt Masur (; 18 July 192719 December 2015) was a German Conducting, conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewand ...

's time as Gewandhauskapellmeister, he played solo concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He performed at the

Prague Spring International Music Festival The Prague Spring International Music Festival (, commonly , Prague Spring) is a classical music festival held every year in Prague, Czech Republic, with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles from around the world. The first festival ...

, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as in

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and

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. In 1993 Timm was appointed solo cellist in the

Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival () is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special ...

orchestra. In 1988 Timm was appointed

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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.

Recordings

His extensive discography includes recordings of cello concertos as well as

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

, for example the concertos of

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

and

Pyotr Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular ...

with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, by

Eugen d'Albert Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany. Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, h ...

with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with

Peter Rösel Peter Rösel (born February 2, 1945, in Dresden) is a German concert pianist. Appearances Rösel has appeared for years at international festivals (Salzburg, Edinburgh, London Proms, Perth, Hollywood Bowl, Hong Kong) and with many major orchest ...

, Christian Funke and the

Dresden Philharmonic The Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic) is a German symphony orchestra based in Dresden. Its principal concert venue is the '' Kulturpalast''. The orchestra also performs at the Kreuzkirche and the Frauenkirche Dresden. It receive ...

as well as

Günter Kochan Günter Kochan (2 October 1930 – 22 February 2009) was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical com ...

's 2nd Cello Concerto with the

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (''Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin'') is a German symphony orchestra based in Berlin. In Berlin, the orchestra gives concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and at the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra has al ...

, whose premiere he also performed. Neben 25 Aufnahmen mit dem Gewandhaus-Quartett und Solostücken, wie Bach's

Cello Suites The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). They are some of the most frequently performed solo compositions ever written for cello. Bach most likely composed them during the p ...

, gibt es zahlreiche Titel mit verschiedenen Kammermusik-Besetzungen.

Family

Two of Timm's sons are also musicians. Thomas Timm is the principal violinist of the Second Violin Group of the

Berliner Philharmoniker The Berlin Philharmonic () is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world. Throughout the 20th century, the orchestra was led by conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922� ...

. Andreas Timm works as deputy principal cellist with the

Konzerthausorchester Berlin The Konzerthausorchester Berlin is a German Orchestra, symphony orchestra based in Berlin. The orchestra is resident at the Konzerthaus Berlin, designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The building was destroyed during World War II, and ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Timm, Jurnjakob 1949 births Living people People from Neubrandenburg German classical cellists Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig Players of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Life and career

Recordings

Family

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