Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
cellocontact
Maike Charlotte Fuchs
mf(at)karstenwitt.com
+49 30 214 594-220
Heike Wilms
hw(at)karstenwitt.com
+49 30 214 594-236
General Management
Dates
31.10. 20:30
Schloss Elmau
04.11. 21:00
Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" - Torino
06.11. 18:00
Società Filarmonica, Trento
06.11. 20:30
Società Filarmonica, Trento
19.11. 19:30 — cancelled
Southbank Centre London
17.12. 20:00
Philharmonie Cologne
Biography
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker made her international breakthrough with her sensational success at the 8th Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2005, where she became the first contestant in the event's history to win the first prize as well as two special prizes. Since then, she has become one of the most sought-after soloists and chamber musicians of her generation, recognised for her deep expression and natural affinity for the cello, with Die Zeit describing her playing as "heartbreakingly sad and instinctively beautiful".
Born in Robert Schumann's hometown Zwickau in 1987, Hecker started playing the cello at the age of five and attended the Robert Schumann Conservatory, before the distinguished German cellist Peter Bruns became her principal teacher. Early recognition came when she won Germany's important Jugend musiziert competition at the age of twelve, followed by the special prize at the 2001 Dotzauer Competition and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009. She is supported by the Kronberg Academy.
Highlights of her career to date include performances with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Spanish National Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin and Wiener Symphoniker. annover, Hannover,She collaborated with conductors such as Barenboim, Gergiev, Harding, Hengelbrock, Herreweghe, Janowski, Luisi, Nagano, Saraste, Thielemann and von Dohnányi.
As a passionate chamber musician, she has appeared in duo with her husband Martin Helmchen and in different constellations with partners such as Veronika Eberle, Antoine Tamestit, Stephen Waarts at venues including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Aspen, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, L'Auditori Barcelona, Berliner Philharmonie, Bozar Brussels, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Schubertiade in Hohenems, Wigmore Hall London, Lucerne, Carnegie Hall New York, Louvre Paris, Toppan Hall Tokio, Vienna Konzerthaus and Tonhalle Zurich.
In May 2016, the label Alpha Classics released Marie's recording of Brahms' cello sonatas together with Martin Helmchen to great critical acclaim. Recently, her second CD containing Schubert´s Arpeggione Sonata and Trio No. 2 (together with Martin Helmchen and Antje Weithaas) has been released by the same label as well as a CD with Elgar's Cello Concerto (together with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra) and the Piano Quintet.
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker was appointed a professor at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in August 2017. In co-operation with Music Road Rwanda, she regularly travels to Rwanda in order to support a local music school with concerts and educational projects.
2020/2021 season
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Discography
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto, Sospiri & Piano Quintet
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Edo De Waart (cond.)
Carolin Widmann (violin), David McCarroll (violin), Pauline Sachse (viola) and Martin Helmchen (piano)
(Alpha 2018)
Franz Schubert
Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No. 2
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello), Martin Helmchen (piano) and Antje Weithaas (violin)
Alpha (2017)
Brahms Cello Sonatas
Cello Sonata No. 1 & No.2
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello) and Martin Helmchen (piano)
Alpha (2016)
Dvorák & Shostakovitch
Works by Dvorák & Shostakovitch
Shostakovitch: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor with Marie Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Aaron Pilsan (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin) & other works
Avi Music (2014)
Piano Trios
Works by Smetana, Ravel & Watkins
Lars Vogt (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello), and various other artists
Avi Music (2012)
Winds & Strings
Works by Spohr, Ibert, Janácek & Widmann
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello), and various other artists
Avi Music (2012)
Duo · Trio · Quartet
Works by Haydn, Rossini & Schubert
Veronika Eberle (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello), Martin Helmchen (piano), and various other artists
Avi Music (2012)
Franz Schubert: Forellen Quintet
Piano Quintet Op. 32 "The Trout", among other works
Martin Helmchen (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello), Alois Posch (doublebass) & Aldo Baerten (flute)
PentaTone Music (2009)
Celebrating Slava!
In Rememberance of Mstislav Rostropovich
4 CDs
Various composers & artists
Profil (2008)
Cello Fiesta!
Haydn: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra C major, Ginastera: Glosses of themes of Pau Casals Op. 46 for string orchestra & string quintet, and others
Kremerata Baltica
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (violoncello) & Giorgi Kharadze (violoncello)
Profil (2008)
News
Newly joining us: Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
We are very pleased to begin working with the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, whose playing has been described by DIE ZEIT as "heartbreakingly sad and somnambulistically beautiful". Her special intensity of expression can be experienced several times in the coming weeks, both with orchestra and in chamber music format:
Along with Antje Weithaas on violin and Martin Helmchen on piano, she will interpret Beethoven's Triple Concerto in Monaco with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo under Kazuki Yamada. With Schumann's Fantasy Pieces op. 88 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 op. 67, the trio is also a guest at deSingel Antwerp and De Bijloke Muziekcentrum Gent.
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