Christoph Raphael Friedwart Croisé (born 3 December 1993 in

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but raised in

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) is a French-German-Swiss

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and

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Life and career

Christoph Croisé had his first Cello lessons at the age of seven with Katharina Kühne. Since 2007, so at the age of 14, he was taught and guided by Alexander Neustroev, a Solo-Cellist at Zurich's Tonhalle. When he turned 20 he moved to Berlin to study with Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt at Berlin University of Arts. Also from the age of 14 he started attending various master classes and has since benefitted from the advice of

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, Walter Grimmer, and

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. At the age of 17, Christoph made his debut at

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after having won the IBLA Foundation Grand Prize, which included a concert tour through the United States. His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics. His second album "Summer Night", including

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's cello concerto, was released in February 2018 on GENUIN classics. His third album (Haydn, Vivaldi Cello Concertos) was released in March 2019 on AVIE Records and won the Supersonic Award from the

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Magazine and the „Clef D’Or“ for the best concerto album of 2019 from the ResMusica Magazine. His fourth CD "The Russian Album" was released on November 1, 2019 on AVIE Records.

Performances

As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors including M. Sanderling, M. Venzago, D. Boyd, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, D. Reiland, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones and D. Botinis, with various orchestras including the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the

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, the State Symphony Orchestra

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/Azerbaijan, the Camerata Zurich, the

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, the Camerata Switzerland, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the

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, the

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, Tirana, the Sinfonietta de Lausanne, the

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, the

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, the Bavarian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Michoacan, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra Budejovice. Christoph Croisé has been invited to perform at festivals including the Festival "Musical Olympus" in St. Petersburg, New York, and Baku, the

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, the Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert", the

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, the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden, the Radio France Festival Montpellier, the Schwarzwald Music Festival, the Festival de Sully, the

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, the Emilia-Romagna Festival and the Festival de Musique de

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. As a chamber musician, he has performed with

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, Andrey Baranov, Sergey Ostrovsky, Kirill Troussov, Alexander Zemtsov, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Marie Chilemme, Christoffer Sundqvist,

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, Bartłomiej Nizioł,

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, Oxana Shevchenko, Nikita Mndoyants, Lorenzo Soulès, and Alexander Panfilov. Several of his concerts have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, the WQXR, the

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, the SRF, the

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, the RSI, the

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and others.

Instrument

Christoph Croisé plays on a rare Italian master cello, crafted in 1680.

Awards

* 2009: 1st Prize International Competition "Petar Konjovic", Belgrade * 2010: 1st Prize International Competition "IBLA Grand Prize", Sicily, Italy * 2015: 1st Prize

International Johannes Brahms Competition The International Johannes Brahms Competition ("Brahms Competition") is an international competition for the performers of piano, violin, viola, cello, chamber music, and singers. The competition has taken place annually since 1993. The event is h ...

, cello section * 2015: Stipendiary at the Migros Kulturprozent Competition * 2016: 3rd Prize International Competition "Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall" * 2016: 1st Prize International Manhattan Music Competition * 2016: 1st Prize Schoenfeld International String Competition, Harbin, China. * 2016: 3rd Prize International Carlos Prieto Competition,

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, Mexico * 2016: 1st Prize Salieri-Zinetti Competition,

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, Italy. * 2016: Stipendiary at the Migros Kulturprozent Competition and included in the Concert Agency of the Migros Kulturprozent * 2017: Golden Medal "First Berliner International Music Competition" * 2017: Swiss Ambassadors Award *2018: First Grand Prize "2nd Berliner International Music Competition" *2018: "Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics 2019"

References

External links

* Christoph Crois�
official website
* Christoph Crois�
Interview The Strad Magazine
1 August 2016 * Christoph Croisé win
Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition cello section
31 July 2016, The Strad Magazine * Concert Review o

by Mark Thomas, Raff Society, 19 October 2012 * Christoph Croisé i
The Violin Channel
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