Paavo Järvi mourns a leading string player

Paavo Järvi mourns a leading string player

RIP

norman lebrecht

November 23, 2024

The conductor has posted a memorial notice for the Slovak violinist and violist Peter Zelienka, a key player in Frankfurt’s HR symphony orchestra since 1993.

Zelienka was also founder-violist of the Haba Quartet and, lately, a conductor.

No cause of death is known.

Comments

  • Meal says:

    I am deeply shocked. I met him just a few weeks ago for the first time in person. Such a nice guy, I will miss him.

  • R says:

    Family miss him a lot! So young!

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