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Claudia Schwarze (Photo: Lutz Edelhoff 2018)

Claudia Schwarze (born January 16, 1958 in Osnabrück ) is a German cellist and music teacher .

Life

Claudia Schwarze grew up in Osnabrück and received her first cello lessons at the Osnabrück City Conservatory with Josef Trumm. As a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra , she toured Brazil in 1972 . This was followed by cello studies at the Hanover University of Music with Klaus Storck and Rudolf Metzmacher , which she completed in 1978 with the state instrumental teacher examination. She then studied with David Geringas at the Lübeck University of Music . She also took part in master classes with Enrico Mainardi , Jacqueline du Pré in London and Lászlo Mezö at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . In 1986 she passed the concert exam at the Lübeck University of Music with distinction.

She has given concerts as a soloist and as a chamber musician with Andreas Staier , Ádám Fischer , Carola Nasdala , Hartmut Leistritz , Francesco Bottigliero , in the Trio Triton, in the Ensemble L'Art pour l'Art, in the Thuringian cello ensemble and with the jazz group Freeport, among others at Konzerthaus Berlin , in the Musikhalle Hamburg , at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , at the Schola Cantorum Paris, in Israel and the USA . She is a founding member of the Ravensburger Chamber Soloists and the Erfurt Chamber Music Association , a member of the Muytango Ensemble and a member of the Erfurt Salon Orchestra . Since 2013 she has been playing the piano trio with the violinist Alexej Barchevitch and the pianist Ralph Neubert . Since 2014 she has been leading the concert series “Summer Concerts in Erfurt Village Churches” together with the parishes, the Chamber Music Association and with the support of the Erfurt Sparkassenstiftung .

As a cello and chamber music teacher, she has been teaching freelance a. a. at the Hamburg Conservatory , the University of Kassel , the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt and the Erfurt Cathedral . 2006–2009 she was head of the string department at the Ravensburg Music School .

Awards

• Culture Prize of the City of Kassel 1989

Recordings

• Suites for cello solo , suites No. 3, 4, 5 and 6 by Johann Sebastian Bach , CS-Musicmanagement, LC-No. 11920, Erfurt 2000
• Works for cello and piano , sonatas by Alfred Schnittke (1978) and Sergej Prokofjew (op. 119) a. a., with Hartmut Leistritz (piano), CS-Musicmanagement, Erfurt / Berlin 2001
• Duos for cello and violin , works by Joseph Haydn , Zoltán Kodály , Maurice Ravel and Johan Halvorsen , with Carola Nasdala (violin), CS-Musicmanagement, Erfurt 2001
• TRIO TRITON , piano trios by Bedřich Smetana ( op.15 ) and Dmitri Shostakowitsch (op.67), CS-Musicmanagement, Erfurt / Berlin 2002
• Changes , chamber music by Caspar René Hirschfeld , Trio Triton a. a., Col Legno LC no. 20218, Berlin 2004
• MUYTANGO: Amanacer , Tango Argentino with Michaela Kauper (p), Roland Klugger (band), Jörg Walesch (from left) and Heiner Merk (b), Tonsee-Records TSEE 11-0029, Friedrichshafen 2011
• Autumn concert , works for violoncello and piano by Frédéric Chopin (op.3), Edvard Grieg (op.36), Ludwig van Beethoven (WoO 36) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( op.58 ), with Ralph Neubert (piano), CS- Musicmanagement, Ravensburg 2017

Reviews

• Rousing, spirited, also unconventionally hands-on cello playing, captivating virtuosity [...] brilliant technique and a spirited creative will. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, Kassel 1998
• She plays gorgeous vital and soulful. Colorful, exciting, large and full of tone. With sound and aggressiveness. With elegiac singing and motor impulsiveness. With a gripping, original, wild, beautiful and delicate sound. Her sonorous fire on the low strings is fascinating. Reutlinger Generalanzeiger 1993

Web links

• Works by and about Claudia Schwarze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudia Schwarze's website