Friedrich Edelmann & Rebecca Rust
REBECCA RUST, American cellist, and FRIEDRICH EDELMANN, German bassoonist, have been performing together in chamber music, as soloists and as soloists with orchestra, for over 40 years.Performances in Europe, North Africa, America, China, Israel, and Japan were partly supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Germany as well as by Volkswagen and Mercedes of Japan. Some of the most memorable Japanese experiences were private invitations to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo where they visited the then Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan and played together with Empress Michiko on the piano.
In Italy they frequently performed a children's theatre production of Wolf Erlbruch's "Duck, Deathand Tulip" for two dancers, cello & bassoon, a production which received First prize in 2015 in Italy for "Best theatre production for Children and Young People". (A Video of the Premiere Performance in Torino, Italy, English Version, is available from us).
In January 2020 they were invited to perform at the Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles (LAMOTH) on invitation of the German General Consul Stefan Schneider.
In October 2021 they played as soloists with the AudiMus Orchestra in Udine, Italy, in memorial concerts for the 2000 victims of the Vajont Dam desaster of 1963.
They have 15 CDs to their credit. (Some of them are now sold out, but are also still available from us). Available are their three music-films of 2020, 2021, 2022 on DVD.
Rebecca Rust, native of California, studied with Cello Professor Margaret Rowell before going to New York to study with Bernard Greenhouse, cellist of the Beaux-Arts-Trio, and then on to Cologne,Germany where she received her Soloist's Diploma, studying with Paul Szabo, cellist of the Vegh-Quartet. She finished her studies at master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich.
Friedrich Edelmann,who grew up in Germany, studied with Alfred Rinderspacher, Klaus Thunemann and Milan Turkovic. After receiving his diploma in mathematics in Heidelberg, he joined the theatre orchestra of his home town Kaiserslautern. His next activity was to become principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the principal conductors Maestro Sergiu Celibidache (who was the patron of Rebecca's and Friedrich's Tokyo Suntory Hallde but) and James Levine. At these 27 years he played under many famous guest conductors, KarlBöhm, Günther Wand, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Carlos Kleiber, Herbert Blomstedt among others. His book "Memories of 17 years as Principal Bassoonist under Maestro Sergiu Celibidache" was published in Japan in 2009 (only in Japanese).