ON THIS DAY | Happy Birthday, Christian Tetzlaff!

A student of Uwe-Martin Haiberg and Walter Levin, he is widely respected as one of today's eminent concert soloists, touring and recording regularly with the world's major orchestras and conductors

Today is German violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff's 55th birthday.

He currently holds a teaching position on faculty at the Kronberg Academy, in Germany. His famed students including VC Artists Benjamin Beilman and William Hagen.

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF | MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR | PAAVO JARVI & SHANGHAI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 2014