Raphaela Gromes

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Raphaela Johanna Gromes (born March 16, 1991 in Munich ) is a German cellist.

Life

Raphaela Gromes is the daughter of the cellists Wilhelm Gromes and Astrid Hedler-Gromes. At the age of four she received her first cello lessons from her mother and also piano lessons. Since the age of seven she gained concert experience by participating in performances by her parents as "Nymphenburger Celloduo" and made her debut in autumn 2005 as a soloist in the cello concerto by Friedrich Gulda. This was followed by cello concertos by Haydn , Dvořák , Elgar and Saint-Saëns as well as the Triple Concerto by Beethoven , the double concerto by Brahms and Pjotr ​​Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. Contemporary works such as Her repertoire includes, for example, the cello concertos composed for her by Dominik Giesriegl (2012), Valentin Bachmann (2013) and the double concerto "Chroma" by Mario Bürki , which premiered in 2014 .

From 2006 to 2010 she studied as a young student with Peter Bruns at the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University in Leipzig. Since graduating from high school in fall 2010 at the Performing Camerloher Gymnasium Freising she studied at the Munich Academy of Music in Wen-Sinn Yang and later Reinhard Latzko at the University of Music and Performing Arts. It has been funded since 2012 by the German National Academic Foundation, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now and the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation Stendal. She has been an exclusive artist at Sony Classical since 2016.

She has dedicated herself to chamber music with numerous well-known partners, especially since 2011 with Amelie Böckheler in the Duo Servais and since 2012 with her permanent pianist Julian Riem. With a varied repertoire ranging from classical and romantic sonatas, such as by Schubert and Brahms, to music of the 20th century and contemporary works, the duo Gromes / Riem performs nationally and has found a. Attention at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2017.

Prizes and awards

  • 2009: Sponsorship award from the Freising district
  • 2011: Music Prize from the Ingolstadt Concert Association
  • 2012: Kulturkreis Gasteig Music Prize | 1st prize instrumental duo
  • 2012: Richard Strauss Competition , 1st prize
  • 2013: International Concorso Fiorindo Turin | 1st prize for the Duo Servais (together with Amelie Böckheler , violin)
  • 2014: Theodor Rogler Foundation Bad Reichenhall, sponsorship award, together with her cell duo partner Cécile Grüebler
  • 2016: German music competition , prize winner in the cello category
  • 2016: Kulturkreis Gasteig music prize, 1st prize instrumental duo
  • 2019: Bavarian Art Prize for Music
  • 2020: Culture Prize of the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation

Discography

  • Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem - cello sonatas by Strauss & Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (live recording of the prize-winners' concert of the Richard Strauss Competition 2012). Farao, 2014.
  • Duo Servais (Amelie Böckheler, violin and Raphaela Gromes, violoncello) - works by Servais, Giesriegl and Martinů, Doris Schwarzer Records, 2014.
  • Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem - Serenata Italiana: Works by Busoni, Martucci, Casella, Sinigaglia, Capuis and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Sony Classical, 2017.
  • Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem, WDR Funkhausorchester Cologne, Enrico Delamboye - Hommage a Rossini - works for cello. Sony Classical, 2018.
  • Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem, Wen-Sinn Yang - Offenbach - Works for Cello. Sony Classical, 2019.
  • Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem - Richard Strauss, Cello Sonatas. Sony Classical, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raphaela Gromes, violoncello (short biography). Camerata Munich, accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Mario Buerki: Video recording of the world premiere of "Chroma". Youtube, October 14, 2014, accessed September 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b biography on the website of Raffaela Gromes. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Peter Spanrad: music lessons with the cello virtuoso Raphaela Gromes. Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising, April 17, 2017, accessed on November 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Duo Gromes-Riem on the website of Raffaela Gromes. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  6. ^ Dorothee L. Schaefer: Chamber music with two great duos. Schwäbische Zeitung, September 11, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Heike Linde-Lembke: Raphaela Gromes enchanted the audience. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 24, 2017, accessed on September 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Culture Prize. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Kulturkreis Gasteig Music Prize
  10. ^ Raphaela Gromes, violoncello, winner of the DMW 2016. Deutscher Musikrat, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Concert on Thursday, January 30th, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Robert Schumann Society Frankfurt am Main eV, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  12. ^ Claus Friede: Serenata Italiana - Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem. Kultur-Port.de, September 20, 2017, accessed on October 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gromes, Raphaela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gromes, Raphaela Johanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich