Critics said about him that he is the ideal performer of Mozart's music, but the violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman has also been concerned along his career with promoting comtemporary music.

He was born in Duisburg, Germany on the 27^th February, 1965. He was already studying the violin by the time he was five years old and he became the soloist of an ensemble by the time he was ten, when he performed the Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 by Mozart. In 1976 he won the Youth Makes Music competition in Germany. Among the teachers who coached him are great personalities, such as Valery Gradov (at Folkwang Hochschule in Essen), Saschko Gawriloff (at Berlin Staatliche Hochschule) and Herman Krebbers.

His proper career began in 1983 with a series of concerts in Germany, his homeland, and in the rest of Europe as well. He performed his first concert in the United States with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then he played with great ensembles from Boston and Chicago. He also played chamber music and he had remarkable collaborations with the pianists Alexander Lonquich and with Enrico Pace, starting in 1998.

Frank Peter Zimmerman played three violin works in a world premiere: Matthias Pintscher's 'silent' Concerto, Brett Dean's The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Augusta Read Thomas' Concerto No. 3 Juggler in Paradise - the German violinist has been focusing on contemporary music since the beggining of the 21^st century.

On his 50^th birthday, you are invited to listen to him on the Arpeggio programme made by Irina Cristina Vasilescu. On the violin which once belonged to Fritz Kreisler - a Stradivarius from 1711 - the Performer of the Day on Radio Romania Music, Frank Peter Zimmerman will perform various opuses. He will play works by Nicoló Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Serghei Prokofiev.