In 1990 he began to teach the cello, first at the state music school in Bourg-la-Reine and then at the Boulogne Conservatoire. Since 1996 he has taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was appointed professeur-assistant; in 1999 he received his certificate as cello teacher. He sits regularly on various jurys in the world of music teaching, in national music schools, conservatoires and the Conservatoire de Paris. Chamber music has always occupied an important place in his life. He engaged in a period of intense activity with the Trio Bartholdy (piano, violin, cello) from 1992 to 1997, during which period they carried off four international First Prizes, including the famous ARD competition in Munich in 1995. The Trio was in frequent contact with great musicians such as Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and Menahem Pressler, appearing in leading concert halls in London, Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem and Saint-Petersburg, and participating in leading festivals including La Roque-d’Anthéron, Besançon, Menton, Les Chorégies d’Orange, etc. He also appears with Octocello, the Octuor de violoncelles de Paris, of which he is a founder member.
Eckhard Rudolph was born in Hannover in 1965, and in 1999 took his place as the double bass soloist of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris after two years as the soloist of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. From 1978 to 1987 he studied the double bass with Heinz Bethmann of the Hannover Opera, and was admitted to the Cologne Musikhochschule in 1987, under the tuition of Wolfgang Güttler, of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Here he was unanimously awarded the double bass First Prize in 1992. He continued his studies with Güttler at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule, where he was awarded his soloist’s diploma, again unanimously, in 1996. Parallel to his studies, he pursued his professional career with the Orchestra of the Cologne Opera in 1988, with the Deutsche Kammerakademie in Neuss from 1988 to 1992 and with the Sarrebrück Opera in 1993 and 1994.