Gabriel Schwabe
Kronberg Academy Master Studies with Frans Helmerson funded by the Hilmar Kopper patronage
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies Studies with Frans Helmerson funded by the Hilmar Kopper patronage
Grand Prix Emmanuel Feuermann, special award winner
Cello Masterclasses, Participant
Cello Festival, concert
Chamber Music Connects the World, junior
Cello Masterclasses, Boris Pergamenschikow scholarship
Appointment with Slava
Alumni Meeting
Kronberg Festival, concert
Mit Musik – Miteinander, tutor
Cello Masterclasses, concert
Chamber Music Connects the World
“Hugely impressive and refreshingly straightforward ” - The Guardian
“…fresh-faced, full of vitality...” - The Strad
Gabriel Schwabe is a laureate of three of the world‘s most prestigious cello competitions: the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin, the Concours Rostropovich in Paris and the Pierre Fournier Award in London. As a soloist he has worked with important orchestras such as the London Philharmonia, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the NDR Radio Philharmonic, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the DSO Berlin, the Malmö and Norrköping Symphony Orchestras and the NCPA Orchestra Beijing with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Dennis Russell-Davies, Cornelius Meister, Giancarlo Guerrero, Michael Sanderling and Marc Soustrot.
In chamber music, Gabriel Schwabe regularly performs with artists such as Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Kirill Gerstein and Enrico Pace. In 2010 he gave his recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall. He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Amsterdam Biennale and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Since 2015, he has been an exclusive recording artist with record label Naxos. His debut CD (Brahms Sonatas and Songs with pianist Nicholas Rimmer) was released the same year. Releases with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Marc Soustrot, the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Lars Vogt and the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Antoni Wit followed to great critical acclaim.
Gabriel Schwabe was born in Berlin to German-Spanish parents. He studied with Catalin Ilea at the University of Arts in Berlin and recieved further stimulus from Janos Starker, Gary Hoffmann and Gidon Kremer.
He is a cello professor at the HfMT Cologne and the Conservatorium Maastricht. Schwabe plays a cello by Giuseppe Guarneri (Cremona, 1695).
2008 - 2013, he studied at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson, funded by the Hilmar Kopper Scholarship.
FACKELTRÄGER
Participants
- Frans Helmerson cello
- Bonian Tian cello
- Gabriel Schwabe cello
- Christoph Heesch cello
- Michael Polyzoides cello
Programme
Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
Deux mouvements pour quatuor de violoncelles
Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)
Duets for two cellos
Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
Small suite for three cellos op. 59
Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
Dyophony for two cellos op. 241
Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848–1890)
Concert Waltz for cello quartet op. 31
Steve Reich (*1936)
Clapping Music
Grant Beglarian (1927–2002)
„Of Fables, Foibles and Fancies“ for cello and narrator: No. 3 Poisonous Root
Bertold Hummel (1925–2002)
Two paraphrases on Latvian folk songs for cello quintet op. 59e
Subject to change.