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| Don Quixote at Grant Park Music Festival with Carlos Kalmar |
"...Gerhardt is one of the most impressive players among the younger generation of European cellists. He portrayed the don as a passionate idealist, dispatching the formidable cello solos with virtuoso poise and a beguiling sense of fantasy that made it sound easy..."
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| John von Rhein, August 15, 2005 |
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| Rococo-Variations with C.Eschenbach and Chicago Symphony at Ravinia |
| “'Rising Stars' at Ravinia |
| Sunday evening's concert, with Christoph Eschenbach leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra... was one of the most successful heard this season. Cellist Alban Gerhardt has shown himself an intelligent artist with an enviable technique and a flair for contemporary music. It's too bad he wasn't allotted something more substantive than Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme, " but such was the fluency and expressive shading of the 29-year-old musician's playing that he made the slender showpiece seem more profound than it is. Gerhardt brought nuanced phrasing, and a surprising depth to this Classical-era pastiche (heard in the composer's original version). Gerhardt's refined lyrical playing was as convincing as his electric virtuosity in the closing bars.” |
| Lawrence A. Johnson, August 10, 1999 |
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| Three Meditations by Dejan Despic with the Chicago String Ensemble |
| “...Despic's poignant and directly communicative music was given magnificent advocacy by young German cellist Alban Gerhardt, who brought an incisive, burnished tone and kaleidoscopic range of expressive coloring to the soaring, rhapsodic solo lines.” |
| Lawrence A. Johnson, May 12, 1997 |
