More about Tanja
I take great pleasure in playing a 2011 built viola by Tobias Gräter, violin maker in Heidelberg, my hometown, and on a beautiful stick by Jochen Schmidt from Dresden. I had my previous viola built by Wolfgang Scharff converted to a baroque viola.
1999
Atviola with Johannes Lüthy and Diemut Poppen in Freiburg and Saarbrücken. Baroque viola with Enrico Gatti at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
I don't really have a favorite composer but who touches me the most is Franz Schubert, especially in his songs and then most when the key changes from minor to major. And to a desert island I would take the music of Johann Sebastian Bach because his music makes me very calm and happy and I keep discovering new things in it.
Member of Trio Calliope(www.triocalliope.com) and the Residentie Bachensemble. Regular recitals with her mother Ursula Trede Boettcher. Co-founder of chamber music series Foundation Classical Music Eenrum.
What do I like to listen to?
I'm one of those musicians who doesn't listen to music very often. But what I really love are the Comedian Harmonists - a German vocal group from the 1920s and 1930s - because they sing so incomparably beautiful together and I very much love the lightness, humor and schwung of this genre. In addition, around Easter I always listen to the St. Matthew Passion (various performances) and regularly to the Sinfonien who perform them. But since I already make so much music, I also really enjoy listening to Radio 1!