Tanja Becker-Bender performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

Tanja Becker-Bender as the soloist with the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa under the baton of Marko Letonja

Photo: Christian Steiner

Tanja Becker-Bender as soloist in the Violin Concerto by Peter Tschaikowski, accompanied by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Antoni Wit

Tanja Becker-Bender as the soloist with the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa under the baton of Marko Letonja
Tanja Becker-Bender

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Travelling with the Violin
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Tanja Becker-Bender in the Violin Concerto E major by Bach together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Thereafter, performance of the Concerto for Violin and Violoncello B major by Vivaldi with Danjulo Ishizaka as partner.
Liederhalle Stuttgart, Beethoven Hall, 21 October 2008
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Tanja Becker-Bender during the ovations for her performance of the Violin Concerto K 211 by Mozart KV 211 - Laeiszhalle Hamburg, concert with the Bachorchester of the Gewandhaus Leipzig on 20 Dec 2007, (program of 17 Dec 2007, see below)
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Tanja Becker-Bender in front of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg after her concert on 20 Dec 2007
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Concert with the Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus Leipzig in the Castle of Kiel on 17 Dec 2007, Christian Funke (Concert master and leadership)

Program, part I - Mozart: Violin Concerto D major K 211
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)
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Program, part II - Bach: Concerto for violin and oboe d minor BWV 1060,
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Ralf Schippmann (oboe)
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Tanja Becker-Bender in concert with the Museum Orchestra Frankfurt under the baton of Tomas Netopil, Alte Oper Frankfurt, 15 October 2007
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Tanja Becker-Bender after her concert at the Alte Oper Frankfurt

Debut concert in Carnegie Hall New York

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Carnegie Hall New York on the day of the concert (17 Jan 2007)

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Sound check in Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), New York, 17 Jan 2007
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Great delight after a very successful concert: Tanja Becker-Bender with her trio partners J.Y. Song (piano) and Darrett Adkins (violoncello)
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Fulfilment of a dream: Beside her playing as soloist, Tanja Becker-Bender passionately loves making music in quartet. The Petrarca Quartet which she has founded had its première at the Bad Homburg Chamber Music Festival on 30 April 2006.
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Wojciech Garbowski (violin), Andreas Willwohl (viola), Damien Ventula (violoncello)
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Reception by Federal President Horst Köhler at Bellevue Castle in Berlin on 8 February 2006 on occasion of the 75th birthday celebrations for the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl
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Tanja Becker-Bender on tour with the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra (BSO) under the baton of Jac van Steen, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto D major, concerts in Ulm, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen, 4 - 7 February 2006
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Debut in the Philharmonie of Berlin with the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchester under the baton of Hartmut Haenchen (16 October 2005)
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Tanja Becker-Bender and Hartmut Haenchen
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Tanja Becker-Bender after her concert in the Philharmonie of Berlin on 16 October 2005
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In the Brahms Hall of the "Musikverein" in Vienna after the recital with pianist Oliver Kern The house of the "Musikverein" in Vienna at night of 31 Oct 2004
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Before the bust of Brahms in the "Musikverein" in Vienna
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Tanja Becker-Bender after her recital on occasion of the presentation of the "AmCham Transatlantic Partnership Award 2004" to Minister of the Interior Otto Schily in Berlin on 17 Sept 2004 (piano accompaniment: Miki Hashimoto) With Peter Scholl-Latour after his "Reflections on peace between the religions" on the occasion of a chamber music concert in Hamburg, November 2004 (DSM)
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Tanja Becker-Bender with her students of the EAMA violin program, July 2004, Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris The EAMA-Trio: Tanja Becker-Bender as Director of the violin program of the "European American Musical Alliance" (EAMA) together with Dr. Philip Lasser, President of the EAMA, and Dr. J.Y. Song, Director of the EAMA piano program, in front of the "Ecole Normale de Musique" in Paris
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After studies of the Bartók Violin Concerto no.2 together with György Sándor, one of the last-living directly subsequent students of Béla Bartók, in New York (May 2004) Bartók in conversation with György Sándor, January 1945 (from: Malcom Gillies:Bartók remembered, Faber and Faber Limited)
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Together with her teacher Robert Mann, 1st violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, in New York (May 2004) After her concert with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra on 16 April 2004 together with her teacher Günter Pichler (1st violinist of the Alban Berg Quartet) in the Concert Hall of Vienna
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Performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (e minor) and the Bruch Violin Concerto (g minor) with the Munich Symphony Orchestra under Heiko Mathias Förster, 20 Oct 2003, "Prinzregenten-Theater" Munich
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Maestro Kurt Masur together with the soloists Viviane Hagner and Tanja Becker-Bender on 1 September 2003 in the Gewandhaus Leipzig
Photo: Hanns-Jörg Anders
Rehearsal as soloist avec Kurt Masur in the "Konzerthaus Berlin" (31 Aug 2003)
On tour with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Gerd Albrecht (27 Jan - 18 Feb 2003):
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Finale of the Korngold Violin Concerto ("Tonhalle" Duesseldorf on 17 February 2003)
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Perfect choreography of coincidence: teacher and student give a concert in the "Alte Oper" Frankfurt on 15 February 2003 at the same time. Günter Pichler plays a chamber music concert with the Alban Berg Quartet, Tanja Becker-Bender performs as a soloist of the Dvorák Violin Concerto together with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Gerd Albrecht) In the "Philharmonie" in Koeln on 16 February 2003 (Korngold Violin Concerto)
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Reception with Federal President Johannes Rau at Bellevue Castle in Berlin on 24 October 2002 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Foundation "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben"
Tanja Becker-Bender (2nd on the left) together with President Johannes Rau and chair of the board Irene Schulte-Hillen (1st on the left) among scholarship holders of the foundation (Hanns-Jörg Anders/DSM)
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Meeting Rostropovitch in Buenos Aires, on the left Gisela Timmermann, General Manager Mozarteum Argentino (June 2002) Warm greeting
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In the Andes between two performances of the Beethoven Violin Concerto
in Salta and Jujuy (June 2002)
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Rehearsal with Gidon Kremer, "Chamber Music Connects the World", Kronberg Academy 2000 Rehearsal with Arnold Steinhardt (Guarneri quartet), program: string quintet G major by Johannes Brahms, "Chamber Music Connects the World" (International Kronberg Academy, May 2002)
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After the performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto at Chautauqua together with Uriel Segal (USA 2000) In Jerusalem before the performance of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, February 2001
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Tanja Becker-Bender as 1. prizewinner of the International Violin Competition "Premio Rodolfo Lipizer 1996" together with her teacher Wilhelm Melcher (Melos Quartett)
From an early Time
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The beginning on the Violin (1984) Debut in Salzburg: In the Rittersaal of the Old Residence, together with Helmut Zehetmair (1989)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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