Gunter Teuffel

Gunter Teuffel is the principal violist of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and a professor at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. He has recorded the viola d’amore concertos of Carl Stamitz and Leos Janacek’s “Intimate Letters” in the original version with the viola d’amore, for which he was awarded the prize of the German Record Critics. Recently he recorded a new CD of “Hindemith’s Works for Viola d’Amore” with Hindemith’s own instrument.

Gunter Teuffel studied with Enrique Santiago, the Melos Quartet, Sandor Végh, and with William Primrose. In 2012, he published his translation of David Dalton’s “The Art of Viola Playing, Conversations with William Primrose,” which is considered the single most comprehensive “bible” for the viola.