Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

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Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (born March 5, 1987 in Zwickau ) is a German cellist . Her international career began in 2005 when she won the Rostropovich Competition in Paris.

Life

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is the fifth of eight children of a pastor's family from Kirchberg near Zwickau. Her passion for playing the cello developed at the age of five. In 1992 she began to study this instrument under Wieland Pörner at the Robert Schumann Conservatory .

From 1999 she won several youth music competitions . In 2001 she won first prize and a special prize at the international JJF Dotzauer competition in Dresden . From 2001 to 2005 she received cello and piano trio lessons from Professor Peter Bruns as an external student at the Saxon State High School for Music in Dresden . From 2005 she continued her studies with Peter Bruns at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

In 2005, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker was one of the youngest participants to not only win first prize at the Rostropovich Competition, but also - a novelty in the history of the important competition that took place every four years in Paris from 1977 to 2009 - at the same time two special prizes. This eighth Rostropovich competition was the last that Mstislav Rostropovich himself experienced and led as president. More than 200 candidates took part, more than in any previous Rostropovich competition.

She studied with Heinrich Schiff and took part in master classes with Anner Bylsma , Frans Helmerson , Bernard Greenhouse , Gary Hoffman and Steven Isserlis . She was one of the young instrumentalists invited by the Kronberg Academy to work for two weeks with the masters of her subjects at the Chamber Music Days. She later worked as a lecturer in Kronberg herself.

From May 2010 to March 2012, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker performed three times in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus .

On June 8, 2010, accompanied by the Staatskapelle Berlin under the direction of Daniel Barenboim , she played Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto, Op. 129, on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Robert Schumann's cello concerto, op.129 , as part of a highly acclaimed gala concert in the Neue Welt concert hall in Zwickau More than 2000 other visitors outside could take part in the concert.

In 2011 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, the violinist Veronika Eberle and the pianist Francesco Piemontesi were invited to the Heidelberger Frühling music festival as “ Artists in Residence ” .

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has been teaching as a professor at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden since August 2017 .

In 2019 she was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is married to the pianist Martin Helmchen and has three daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Altenburg: On the catapult article about Marie-Elisabeth Hecker on zeit.de, July 20, 2006
  2. ↑ a b c Homepage of Marie-Elisabeth Hecker , see Vita .
  3. ^ Six French Interviews with Mstislav Rostropowich, November 2005 to November 2006. Translated by David Abrams cello.org. See the second interview: Rostropovich speaks about his competition . See also the photo below: Rostropowitsch presents the 1st prize to Marie-Elisabeth Hecker.
  4. ^ Marie-Elisabeth Hecker kronbergacademy.de
  5. ^ Performances by Marie-Elisabeth Hecker at the Dortmund Konzerthaus konzerthaus-dortmund.de
  6. ↑ Schumann Festival 2010 exceeds expectations zwickau.de, press release from June 15, 2010.
  7. ↑ Schumann year was a huge success schumannzwickau.de, December 20, 2010.
  8. ^ Preview of the "Heidelberg Spring" 2011 rundschau-hd.de, March 2011.
  9. ^ Prof. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker-Helmchen University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
  10. ↑ Villa Massimo | Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Article about Martin Helmchen in: Neue Westfälische, January 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Marie-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5th 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau