DIVOX - appassionatamente dedicated to chamber music
- Ensemble CappellAntiqua
- Accademia Strumentale Italiana
- James Alexander, piano
- Amati Quartett
- Andreas Trio
- Jean-François Antonioli, conductor
- Tanja Becker-Bender, violin
- Belcanto Strings
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
- Birnauer Kantorei
- Paolo Bordoni, piano
- Jutta Bosch, painter
- Brandenburgische Philharmonie Potsdam
- David Bruchez, trombone
- Martin A. Bruns, bariton
- Franz Burgert, piano
- Maria Callas, soprano
- Bruno Canino, piano
- Giuliano Carmignola, violin
- Milana Chernyavska, piano
- Christophorus Kantorei & Orchester
- Consortium Classicum
- Coro della SAT
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
- Ensemble Aisthesis
- Ensemble Diferencias
- Ensemble Il Trittico
- Ensemble Pyramide
- Ensemble Tiramisù
- Ensemble peregrina
- Eos Guitar Quartet
- Frankenberger Chöre
- Andreas Fröhlich
- Werner Genuit
- Jean Goverts, fortepiano
- Peter Lukas Graf, Querflöte
- David Greenlees, viola
- Stefano Grondona, guitar
- Jonathan Guyonnet, violin | Violine
- Tuija Hakkila
- Claudius Herrmann
- Peter Hörr
- Yuka Imamine
- Roberta Invernizzi
- Kammerakademie Potsdam
- Kammersolisten Zug
- Heinrich Keller
- Anna Kravtchenko
- Alain Kremski
- Anahit Kurtikyan
- Kolja Lessing
- Kirk Lightsey
- Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
- Andrea Marcon
- Sergio Marini
- Brigitte Meyer, piano
- Dariusz Mizera
- Stefano Molardi, harpsichord & organ | Cembalo & Orgel
- Marie Nishimaya
- Esther Nyffenegger
- Adeline Oprean
- Paolo Pandolfo
- Wolfhard Pencz
- Daniel Pezzotti
- Quintetto Arnold
- Ravinia Trio
- Emil Rovner, cello
- Saiko Sasaki
- Rudolf Scheidegger
- Rainer Schmidt
- Atsuko Seki
- Alexander Shtarkman
- Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
- Soundroots Quartet
- Conrad Steinmann
- The Earle His Viols
- Trio Rippas
- Uriel Tsachor
- Evelyn Tubb
- Virtuosi Delle Muse
- Peter Waters
- Gérard Wyss
- Omar Zoboli
- Zürcher Oboenquartett
Tanja Becker-Bender, violin
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Tanja Becker-Bender was born in Stuttgard, Germany, into a family of scientists and musicians of Bohemian origin. Early musical success, manifested in top prizes at the international competitions in Geneva (CIEM), Brussels (CIM Chimay), Tokyo (Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award), Houston, Gorizia and Genoa (Premio Niccolò Paganini), lead her to perform as a soloist unter the baton of Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Fabio Luisi, Hartmut Haenchen, Hubert Soudant and Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi with renowned orchestras.
Also an avid chamber musician she played in festivals together with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Pergamenschikow an Arnold Steinhardt and gave recitals in New York, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Paris, London, Rome and Vienna.
Tanja Becker-Bender has received her most signifikant musical education from the world's leading quartet musicians: Early studies with Wilhelm Melcher (Melos Quartett) in Stuttgart and a year of studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School in London were followed by studies with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartett) at the University of Music in Vienna and with Robert Mann (Juilliard String Quartet) at the Juilliard School in New York. Further important impulses came from Bartok's student György Sandor in New York and through the work with Eberhard Feltz in Berlin. Applying the idealistic approach of chamber music to all genres of music, whether concertos, virtuoso pieces, new music in first performances or baroque music on historic instruments, Tanja Becker-Bender is constantly striving for getting to the essence of each work performed, and dedicates herself to a wide range of repertoire. Her interest in new music has led her to collaborations with composers such as Cristobal Halffter and first performances of works by Rolf Hempel and Alexander Goehr. In 2006, she has been appointed one of the youngest professors ever in Germany, at the University of Music Saarland in Saarbrücken, following Maxim Vengerov in that position.