Christoph Croisé

Christoph Croisé (born 3 December 1993 in Filderstadt/Germany) is a French-German-Swiss cellist.

Biography and career

At the age of 17, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall, where he has performed on several occasions since.

He also appears regularly in further world-renowned concert halls including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Residenz Munich, the Capella St. Petersburg, and the State Philharmonia Baku. Several of his concerts have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, and others.

As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors such as M. Sanderling, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones and D. Botinis with various orchestras including the State Symphony Orchestra Baku, Azerbaijan, the Skyline Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the Camerata Zurich, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the State Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg, Russia, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Tirana, the Bavarian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Michoacan, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra Budejovice.

Christoph Croisé is regularly invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the Festival "Musical Olympus" in St. Petersburg, New York, and Baku, the Lucerne Festival, the Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert", the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Schwarzwald Music Festival, the Festival de Sully and the Festival de Musique de Wissembourg. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Mayuko Kamio, Alexander Zemtsov, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Oliver Schnyder, Oxana Shevchenko, Nikita Mndoyants, Lorenzo Soulès, Anna Fedorova and Alexander Panfilov.

He has been laureate of several first prizes at international competitions including the Schoenfeld International String Competition Harbin/China (2016), the Manhattan International Music Competition (2016), the International "Salieri-Zinetti" Competition in Verona/Italy (2016), the International Johannes Brahms Competition (2015), the International Competition "Ibla Grand Prize" in Sicily (2010), the International Competition "Petar Konjović" in Belgrade (2009), the Migros-Kulturprozent in Zurich (2015) and the International Carlos Prieto Competition Morelia/Mexico (3rd Prize, 2016). His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics.

Christoph Croisé began playing the cello at the age of seven under the tutelage of Katharina Kühne. Since 2007, he has been studying with Alexander Neustroev and, as of 2013, with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Berlin University of Arts.
He has additionally benefited from major artistic advice from Steven Isserlis, Michael Sanderling, David Geringas, Walter Grimmer, and Frans Helmerson. Christoph Croisé plays on a Goffriller cello made in Venice in 1712.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ International Salieri-Zinetti Competition, Verona/Italy

External links

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