Hans "Enke" Zentgraf is the demonstrating and explaining cellist in the videos. He is known as a so called three-letter-man: a fine soloist, chamber-musician and pedagogue. Furthermore he has broad experience in orchestral playing, so that you can rely entirely on what he offers you.

EDUCATION

• 1959 | Piano
• 1966 | Violoncello
• 1979 | Graduation in Frankfurt/Main Prof. G. Mantel
• 1981 | Master's Degree, The Juilliard School, New York Harvey Shapiro Mastercourses
  with Pierre Fournier, Janos Starker, Rudolf Metzmacher, Itzak Perlman and Leonard Hokanson

MASTERCOURSES (TEACHER)

• 1982, 1983 & 1993 | Johannesen International Festival of the Arts, Victoria, Canada
• 1994 | Italy and Hungary
• 1995 | Hungary and Germany, Castle of Salem
• 1996 | Germany, Castle of Salem
• 1997 - 2001 | Monastery of Engelberg, Switzerland
• 2013 | Germany, Kassel
• 2014 | Germany, Kassel
• 2015 | Germany, Kassel

ORCHESTRA

• 1983 | State Opera of Lower Saxony, section
• 1986 | State Opera of Lower Saxony, assistant principal
• 1989 | State Opera of Lower Saxony, co-principal
• 2001 | State Opera of Nuremberg, co-principal

RECORDINGS

Joh. Seb. Bach, Six suites for violoncello solo

1992 | 2 CDs, Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm, Detmold (MDG)

Max Reger, Three suites for violoncello solo

1993 | MDG

Antonio Vivaldi, Four sonatas

1995 | Own arrangement for violoncello and string-orchestra, MDG

Friedrich Kiel

1996 | Complete works for violoncello and piano, MDG

Sonatas by Gabrielli, Loeillet, Scarlatti...

...,Jacchini, Couperin, Marcello. 1997 | Own arrangement for violoncello and string-orchestra.

Friedrich Kiel II

2002 | Complete works II for violoncello and piano, MDG

20 Years Duo Zentgraf-Ullrich

1998 | Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and others - for violoncello solo and violoncello and piano.

Sonatas by Eccles, Sammartini, Marais, Händel and De Fesch

1999 | Own arrangement for violoncello and string-orchestra, MDG