A prize-winner at the 2016 International Bach Competition, French-born cellist Vladimir Waltham is much in demand as a soloist and chamber musician on modern and baroque cello as well as viola da gamba. He plays a cello by Nicola Gagliano generously loaned to him by the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation. Vladimir’s various ensembles have garnered many prizes, notably his Linos Piano Trio, winner of the first prize and audience prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015 and of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Frost Prize for an outstanding young ensemble. Vladimir has played with La Serenissima for a decade, commuting from Berlin where he lives with his family. A review of La Serenissima’s recent CD of double concertos by Vivaldi singled out his contribution in glowing terms: “What we get instead is another soloist to whom I could listen all day, cellist Vladimir Waltham; hear his gently grainy, luminous tone and his sighing trills, and fall in love.”