林恩․哈瑞爾 l 大提琴

大提琴巨擘林恩․哈瑞爾，在世界樂壇享有舉足輕重的地位；他的演奏足跡遍及歐美亞三大洲，舉凡獨奏、室內樂、指揮和教學領域，皆成績斐然，被認為是現今表演藝術界的翹楚。

哈瑞爾的演奏生涯長達半世紀，曾與美國各頂尖交響樂團合作，如波士頓、芝加哥、紐約、費城、舊金山、洛杉磯、底特律、渥太華、匹茲堡及美國國家交響樂團；在歐洲則與倫敦、慕尼黑、萊比錫、柏林、德勒斯登、蘇黎世及台拉維夫等一流樂團合作。他也遠赴澳洲、紐西蘭、日本、韓國、馬來西亞、新加坡、台灣及香港演出。列汶、馬利納爵士、庫克․馬舒、祖賓․梅塔、普列文、拉圖爵士、史拉特金、泰密卡諾夫、麥可․提爾森․湯瑪斯及大衛․辛曼等傑出指揮家都是哈瑞爾經常共事的夥伴。

2015/2016樂季，「慕特-布朗夫曼-哈瑞爾」三重奏安排了歐洲巡演，在柏林、馬德里、德勒斯登、莫斯科、米蘭、埃森及慕尼黑等地舉行音樂會，三位音樂家還將於薩爾茲堡復活節藝術節與德勒斯登國家交響樂團一起演出貝多芬的三重協奏曲。另外，哈瑞爾將與墨西哥國家交響、國立台灣交響以及杭州愛樂演出協奏曲；還規劃了華盛頓特區及費城等地的大提琴獨奏會。

哈瑞爾近幾個樂季的演出重點，包括了與亞特蘭大交響、雪梨交響、底特律交響、大都會管弦、萊比錫布商大廈、中國愛樂、首爾愛樂、杜伊斯堡交響及巴西交響樂團合作；「慕特-布朗夫曼-哈瑞爾」三重奏之美、加巡演等。哈瑞爾受邀擔任第15屆柴可夫斯基國際音樂比賽評審，並由殷巴爾指揮首爾愛樂、葛濟夫指揮馬林斯基管弦為他協奏；他也在韋比爾音樂節、香港國際室內樂節、亞斯本音樂節、拉荷亞音樂節、東方音樂節及蘇格蘭音樂節等地獻藝。

2013年3月，哈瑞爾首演了奧古斯塔․瑞德․湯馬士作曲的大提琴協奏曲，由艾森巴赫指揮波士頓交響樂團協奏；2014年，在亞斯本音樂節推薦這首新作品，由克里斯蒂安․阿敏指揮；2015年則換由哈努․林圖指揮底特律交響樂團再次演出。2013年，哈瑞爾參加了東京弦樂四重奏於紐約92街Y藝術中心的告別樂壇音樂會。哈瑞爾在許多音樂節現身，像是大提頓、壇格塢及亞斯本，尤其與後者的關係更是密切，他在亞斯本的夏天音樂會演奏超過了四十個年頭。1999年夏天，香港推出為期三週的〈林恩․哈瑞爾大提琴音樂節〉，哈瑞爾與香港愛樂有多場演出。

1994年4月7日，哈瑞爾與英國皇家愛樂於梵諦岡舉行音樂會，以悼念死於納粹大屠殺的六百萬名猶太人。這是梵蒂岡首次為大屠殺舉行的官方紀念儀式，教宗若望․保祿二世和羅馬的首席猶太拉比都出席了這場深具歷史意義的活動。同年，哈瑞爾與帕爾曼、祖克曼一起錄製的貝多芬弦樂三重奏專輯(Angel/EMI)獲得葛萊美獎提名，三位音樂家應邀於頒獎典禮現場演出貝多芬的弦樂三重奏樂曲。

哈瑞爾錄製過三十多張大受推崇的經典曲目，包括巴赫無伴奏大提琴組曲全集(London/Decca)、維克多․赫伯特第一號大提琴協奏曲(世界首演版本，馬利納爵士指揮聖馬丁學院樂團伴奏，London/Decca)、華爾頓大提琴協奏曲(拉圖爵士指揮伯明罕市交，EMI)、唐納․厄柏大提琴協奏曲(史拉特金指揮聖路易交響樂團，New World發行)等。哈瑞爾與帕爾曼、阿胥肯納吉合錄的柴可夫斯基鋼琴三重奏(1981)及貝多芬鋼琴三重奏全集(1987)，先後贏得兩座葛萊美獎。他與祖克曼、阿胥肯納吉合作錄製了舒伯特鋼琴三重奏(2000)及布拉姆斯鋼琴三重奏(1994)。2000年5月，哈瑞爾與甘迺迪合作灌錄《小/大提琴二重奏集》，獲得一致好評。近年來的錄音曲目，包括了柴可夫斯基的〈洛可可主題與變奏〉、蕭士塔高維契第二號大提琴協奏曲及浦羅高菲夫交響協奏曲(史瓦茲指揮皇家利物浦愛樂，Classico發行)等。

2010年6月，哈瑞爾與他的小提琴家夫人海倫․南丁格爾於洛杉磯創立了「心跳」慈善基金會，哈瑞爾身兼基金會的董事及藝術大使，想要藉由音樂的力量來幫助飽受貧窮與戰爭折磨的孩童們。

哈瑞爾目前定居於加州的聖塔莫妮卡，使用的是美國製琴師克里斯多弗․鄧吉於2008年製作的大提琴。

Lynn Harrell l Cello

Lynn Harrell’s presence is felt throughout the musical world. A consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor and teacher, his work throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia has placed him in the highest echelon of today’s performing artists.

Mr. Harrell’s half-century career has brought  him to many leading orchestras including Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, and the National Symphony.  In Europe he partners with the orchestras of London, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Zürich, and Tel Aviv. He has also performed extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Among others, some esteemed conductor-collaborators throughout Mr. Harrell’s career include James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas and David Zinman.

In the 2015-2016 season Lynn tours Europe with the Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell trio with stops in Berlin, Madrid, Dresden, Moscow, Milan, Essen and Munich. He also joins Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yefim Bronfman for Beethoven’s triple concerto at the Salzburg Easter Festival and Dresden Staatskapelle.  Orchestral international appearances include those with the Mexico National Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony and Hangzhou Philharmonic. In the U.S. he gives recitals in Washington, DC and Philadelphia.

In recent seasons, Lynn performed domestically with the symphonies of Atlanta, Sydney, and Detroit, and the Metropolian Opera Orchestra to close the season at Carnegie Hall. Abroad, he played alongside the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, China and Seoul philharmonics, Duisberg Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira.  He joined a North American tour with the Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell Trio to venues including Carnegie Hall and the Maison Symphonique de Montreal. His international engagements include adjudicating the XV Tchaikovsky International Competition, concerts with the Seoul Philharmonic and Eliahu Inbal, Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, and performing in the Verbier, Hong Kong International Chamber, Aspen, La Jolla, Eastern Music, and Scotia festivals.

In March 2013 Mr. Harrell premiered Augusta Reed Thomas’ cello concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, which he then reprised at the 2014 Aspen Festival under Christian Arming, and with the Detroit Symphony and Hannu Lintu in 2015.  Two months later, the 92nd Street Y featured Lynn Harrell with the Tokyo String Quartet in their final New York appearance. Lynn has performed at such music festival as Grand Teton and Tanglewood and his ongoing relationship with the Aspen Music Festival spans across over 40 years of summer concerts. In the summer of 1999 Mr. Harrell was featured in a three-week “Lynn Harrell Cello Festival” with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

On April 7, 1994, Lynn Harrell appeared at the Vatican with the Royal Philharmonic in a concert dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.  As the Vatican’s first official commemoration of the Holocaust, this historic event was attended by both Pope John Paul II and the Chief Rabbi of Rome.  That year Mr. Harrell also appeared live at the Grammy Awards with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, performing an excerpt from their Grammy-nominated recording of the complete Beethoven String Trios (Angel/EMI).

A majorly accomplished recording artist, Lynn Harrell’s extensive discography of more than 30 recordings include the complete Bach Cello Suites (London/Decca), the world-premiere recording of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Sir Neville Marriner (London/Decca), the Walton Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (EMI), and the Donald Erb Concerto with Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony (New World). Together with Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mr. Harrell won two GRAMMY© Awards – in 1981 for the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio and in 1987 for the complete Beethoven Piano Trios (both Angel/EMI). Also with Mr. Ashkenazy and Pinchas Zukerman, Mr. Harrell recorded the Schubert Trios (London/Decca), released in February 2000 and the Brahms Trios (EMI) in 1994. His May 2000 recording with Nigel Kennedy, “Duos for Violin & Cello,” received unanimous critical acclaim (EMI). More recently, Mr. Harrell recorded Tchaikovsky’s Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococo Theme, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2, and Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Gerard Schwarz conducting (Classico).

In June 2010, along with his wife violinist Helen Nightengale, Lynn founded the HEARTbeats Foundation, a 501(c) charity. Based in Los Angeles, the HEARTbeats Foundation strives to help children in need harness the power of music to better cope with, and recover from, the extreme challenges of poverty and conflict. Mr. Harrell serves as a board officer and Artist Ambassador, a capacity that allows him to work directly with children in need.

Mr. Harrell plays a 2008 Dungey cello. He makes his home in Santa Monica, CA.