Philipp Schupelius (Cello)
biography, audio/video, discography, photos, Concerto repertoire, programs
www.www.philippschupelius.de

Biography

Philipp Schupelius was selected by Classic FM as one of their 30 Most Exciting Young Musicians in the World in March 2024. The award-winning young cellist has already thrilled audiences on numerous European stages, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He is passionate themed concerts and combining different art forms into one integrated concert experience. He is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy in Frankfurt under Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. His studies are made possible through a grant by the Sodalitas Patronat.
In August 2023 Philipp won the prestigious German Music Competition in Bonn. This prize includes a CD recording on the Leipzig label GENUIN, to be released in 2024. His debut CD, entitled PAU! A Tribute to Casals, released in September 2023, is a musical exploration of the world of ideas of Pablo Casals – cellist of the century and peace activist.
He received the Discovery Award from the International Music Awards (ICMA) at the age of 17. In October 2022 he won both a Boris Pergamenschikov Grant and the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize. Other honours include the First Great Award from the Manhattan Music Competition in 2021 and the Silver Medal from the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest in 2022. He is a multiple first-prize winner of Jugend musiziert. Philipp will be feature das a debut artist at the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam in the upcoming season.
Philipp has been extremely fortunate to have studied under exceptional musicians, such as Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, under whose tutelage he has been for six years. Prior to that he studied under Ulrich Voss. Justin Pearson, Daniel Hope and Anssi Karttunen were also important mentors. His participation in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad with Ivan Monighetti in 2018 was key, as were his masterclasses with the late remarkable cellists Lynn Harrell and Wolfgang Boettcher. He also studied with Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Geiss and Frans Helmerson.
Philipp Schupelius made his stage debut in 2017 playing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Bergische Symphoniker; the concert was broadcast by WDR. In autumn 2023 he played the commemorative concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Casal’s death at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. He has performed with Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, among others. In 2024, Philipp Schupelius will premiere Fazil Say’s new work For the Children composed especially for him and the percussionist Leon Lorenz at this festival.
The Holzer v. Borcke Music Foundation has supported Philipp since 2020. He was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. In 2018 he was awarded a scholarship from the Kronberg Academy. Since 2021 he has been performing with the pianist Ron Huang for Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now in Berlin.

Audio/Video

Discography

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Fotos

Concerto repertoire

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172
Cello Concerto in a minor, Wq 170

Samuel Barber
Cello Concerto, Op. 22

Ernest Bloch
Schelomo – Hebrew Rhapsody for Violoncello and Orchestra

Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto in B flat major, G. 482

Benjamin Britten
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68

Max Bruch
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

Tan Dun
Intercourse of Fire and Water

Henri Dutilleux
Tout un monde lointain

Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104

Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in e minor, Op. 85

Friedrich Gulda
Concerto for Violoncello and winds

Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto no. 1 in C major, Hob.VIIb:1
Cello Concerto no. 2 in D-major, Hob.VIIb:2

Victor Herbert
Cello Concerto no. 2 in e minor, Op. 30

Gustav Holst
Invocation for Cello and Orchestra

Witold Lutosławski
Cello Concerto

Sergej Prokofiev
Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125

Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto no.1 in a minor, Op.33

Alfred Schnittke
Cello Concerto no. 1

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto no.1, Op. 107
Cello Concerto no.2, Op. 126

Arnold Schönberg
Cello Concerto in D major

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in a mínor Op. 129

Richard Strauss
“Don Quixote”, Op. 35

Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Double Concerto in g minor, RV 531

Programs for recitals/chamber music

cello/piano

Program 1: Vivaldi and Rachmaninov

Sergej Rachmaninov
Oriental Dance in a minor, Op. 2 no.2

Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Sonata in a minor, RV 44

Sergej Rachmaninov
Elegy Op. 3, no.1

Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata in e minor RV 40

Sergej Rachmaninov
Sonata in  g minor, Op. 19

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Programm 2: An Italian Suite

Stravinsky, Vivaldi and Gabrielli
Italian Suite
(Compilation from Suite Italienne und several Sonatas)

Sergej Prokofiev
Cello Sonata, Op. 119

Sergej Rachmaninov
Sonata in g minor, Op. 19

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Program 3: Benjamin Britten

Edward Elgar
Romance, Op.1
2 pieces, Op. 13
La capricieuse, Op. 1

Dimitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in d minor, Op. 40

With readings from the poems by W.H. Auden

Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 65

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Program 4: The mirror

Arvo Pärt
Mirrors in the mirror

“Arpeggione”-sonata in a minor, D 821

Sonata for violoncello

Arvo Pärt
Fratres

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For Cello/Percussion

Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango

Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite no.5 in c minor, BWV 1011

Fazil Say
Middle Eastern Children

Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Sonata in a minor, RV 44

Georg Gershwin
Three Preludes

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Programs for Cello Solo

Programm 1: Scordatura

Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite for Cello Solo, no.5 in c minor BWV 1011

Henri Dutilleux
Trois Strophe sur le nom de Sacher

Zoltán Kodály
Solo Sonata for Cello in b minor, Op. 8

 

Program 2: From Cello to Cello

Domenico Gabrielli
Ricercare no. 2

Gaspar Cassado
Suite for Cello Solo

Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 28

Joseph Dall´Abaco
From 12 Capricci for Cello Solo

Franz Schubert/Bernhard Cossmann
Der Erlkönig (arr. for Cello Solo)

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