Gregory Ahss

Since 2012 the violinist Gregory Ahss has been concert master of Camerata Salzburg, a position he previously held from 2005 to 2011 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is also concert master of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. As a guest concert master, he has performed with leading ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony.

He made an acclaimed solo debut with the Orchestra Mozart Bologna under the baton of Claudio Abbado. Since then, he has worked with conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Teodor Currentzis, and performed with orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.

An enthusiastic chamber musician, he founded the Tal Piano Trio while still a student, and won first prize in the chamber music competition Premio Trio di Trieste with this ensemble. Renowned chamber music partners with whom he collaborates today include Nicolas Altstaedt, Gautier Capuçon, Vilde Frang, Natalia Gutman, Janine Jansen, Alexander Melnikov, Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud and Fazıl Say.

His recording of Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante with the Orchestra Mozart Bologna under Claudio Abbado received numerous awards, including the International Classical Music Award for ‘Best Solo Concerto of the Year 2015‘.

Gregory Ahss began his violin studies at the Gnessin Music School in his home city of Moscow. Following his relocation to Israel he studied at the Israeli Conservatory of Music and the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv with Elena Mazor and Irina Svetlova, and continued his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Donald Weilerstein.

Gregory Ahss plays a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1870, generously provided to him by the Tannberg Privatstiftung.