Klaidi Sahatçi, Solistes Europeens, Luxembourg & Christoph König
Biography Klaidi Sahatçi, Solistes Europeens, Luxembourg & Christoph König
Klaidi Sahatçi
was born in Tirana. He began his violin studies at the age of six in his hometown, where he attended the “J.Misja” Art School. In 1992 he moved to Italy to enrich his musical knowledge and in 1994 he obtained the violin diploma with top marks, under the guidance of M° Gigino Maestri at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. He later perfected with M° Salvatore Accardo at the “W. Stauffer” in Cremona and with M° Boris Garlitzky in Lyon.
Klaidi Sahatçi made his debut as a very young soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Italian Radio Television in Milan, achieving great success, thus starting a career that has always been on the rise. As a soloist he also played with important orchestras including: the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Orchester National de Lyon, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, I Virtuosi Italiani, Cameristi della Scala, Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile etc.
He cooperated with conductors such as: D.Zinman, A.Lombard, H.Griffiths, M.Nesterowitz, G.Herbig, L.Bringuier, G.Antonini etc.
He carried out an intense concert activity in chamber ensembles for important seasons such as: Lugano Festival, Meisterzyclus Zürich, Concert Season at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, Salle Molière in Lyon, Kammermusik in Tonhalle Zürich, Ohri Festival in Macedonia, Different Trains and Pianodrom in Albania, Società dei Concerti, Società del Giardino and Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
In the chamber music sector, he cooperated with performers such as: Bruno Canino, Bruno Giuranna, Rafael Oleg, Dimitri Sitkovetski, Julian Rachlin, Fazil Say, François-Frederic Guy, Yuja Wang, Anna Kravtchenko etc .
Together with Andrea Rebaudengo and Sandro Laffranchini, he founded the Altus Trio. In 2010 he made his debut with the trio at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In the last CDs, the trio played music by Bernstein, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Schumann and Donizzetti and they were recorded and distributed by Limen Music Milano.
In 2013 together with the Albanian pianist Dh.Lazo he recorded and produced the CD “Albanian Memories” dedicated to his country of origin. In 2016 together with Giorgio Koukl he recorded a cd for the Naxos label, entirely dedicated to Alexander Tansman’s music for violin and piano.
1995- 2001 In the orchestral field he won several international competitions covering the role of Violon Solo at the Orchester National de Lyon.
2001 -2004 Substitute for principal violin at the Orchestra of Italian-speaking Switzerland.
2004-2007 Concertmaster at the Zürcher Kammerorchester.
2007-2009 Concertmaster at the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Filarmonica della Scala.
Since 2009 he has been concertmaster at the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and professor of violin at the University of the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland.
His teaching activity, in addition to the Lugano Conservatory, is mainly carried out by giving frequent master classes in Italy, France, Albania, Spain, Poland and Switzerland.
Klaidi Sahatci plays the Antonio Stradivari violin “Wieniawsky, Bower” 1719 from Benz-Mercedes Zurich.
Christoph König
has been Principal Conductor & Music Director of the Solistes Européens Luxembourg since 2010. Celebrated for his clarity, precision, and elegant approach, König is in high demand as a guest conductor all over the world. Since his debut in the US in 2010, he has conducted many symphony orchestras like Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Houston, Oregon and Toronto, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Past and future highlights include appearances with among others the Rochester Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Wiener Concertverein, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Beethoven Orchestera Bonn, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the New Zealand Symphony, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, whom he led on a highly successful tour of China in 2008.
From 2009 to 2014, he was Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, touring with them extensively in Europe and Brazil. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Principal Conductor of Malmö Symphony Orchestra as well as Principal Guest Conductor of l’Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria.
Christoph König has been affiliated with many of the leading opera houses of the world such as Zurich Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bonn Oper, Semper Oper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart and Teatro Real in Madrid.
König’s Beethoven Complete recording of 2020 is the highlight of his collaboration with the British label RUBICON where previous recordings include creative combinations like Dvorak/Copland/Ives, Schubert/Berio, and Méhul/Beethoven. His projects with NAXOS include music by the French composer Louise Farrenc and Luxemburg composers. More of his discography includes the Melcer Piano Concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Hyperion), and Beethoven Symphonies with Malmö Symphony Orchestra (DB Productions). His recording of the Brahms Piano Concerto with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was featured by the BBC Music magazine (September 2009 issue).
König was born in Dresden where he sang in the famous Kreuzchoir. He studied conducting, piano and singing at the Musikhochschule Dresden and furthered his studies in masterclasses with Sergiu Celibidache and Sir Colin Davis, whose assistant he later became with the Sächsische Staatskapelle at the Semper Oper Dresden.
