Julian Steckel (born 1982) is a German cellist and academic teacher.
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Life
Steckel was born in 1982 in Pirmasens as the son of piano teacher Vilja Steckel and violin teacher and conductor
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Helfried Steckel. He completed the Abitur
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at the old-language . At the age of five Steckel began studying cello to play with Ulrich Voss in Saarbrücken
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. Later he studied with Gustav Rivinius in Saarbrücken, Boris Pergamenschikow
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His father was also a cellist, and gave his son his first lessons.
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in Berlin, Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and Antje Weithaas
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Career
Born in Guben, Weithaas studied at the H ...
in Berlin. After receiving prizes at the " Jugend musiziert" music competition, he was awarded a prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb of the Deutscher Musikrat in 2003. In 2010 he won the ARD International Music Competition. In 2012, Steckel received the Echo Klassik in the category ''Nachwuchskünstler (Cello)'' with his album ''Korngold, Bloch, Goldschmidt: Cello Concertos'', published by Cavi-Music.
From 2011 to 2017 Steckel was professor for cello at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre.[Steckel on the website of the ''Rostock University of Music and Theatre'']
/ref> Since October 2017 he has been working in the same position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Discography
* ''Primavera: Preisträger Deutscher Musikwettbewerb'' (with Francesco Piemontesi, piano)
* ''Spannungen 2005: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'' (with Stefan Dohr, François Leleux, Christian Tetzlaff, , Priya Mitchell, Hanna Weinmeister, Stefan Fehlandt, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Julian Steckel, Danjulo Ishizaka)
* ''Spannungen 2005: Johannes Brahms'' (with Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Veronika Eberle
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, Hanna Weinmeister, Stefan Fehlandt, Julian Steckel, Gustav Rivinius)
* ''Klughardt Kammermusik'' (Leipziger Streichquartett; Olga Gollej, piano; Julian Steckel, cello)
* ''Mendelssohn – Works for Cello & Piano'' (with Paul Rivinius, piano)
* ''Korngold- Goldschmidt- Bloch'' (under Daniel Raiskin)
* ''French Cello Sonatas'' (with Paul Rivinius)
* ''Rachmaninoff & Prokofieff'' (Paul Rivinius)
* ''French Cello Sonatas ll'' (Paul Rivinius)
* ''CPE Bach Cello Concertos'' (Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
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History
Karl Münchinger founded the orchestra in 1945, and served as its ...
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References
External links
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Interview with the Swiss Classics Portal Classicpoint.ch
at the Rheinland-Pfalz, 24 May 2013
Julian Steckel bei Musik & Theater Saar
retrieved 18 May 2020.
Personal website
* Werner Theurich
on Spiegel Online 2 July 2011
Interview mit Julian Steckel im VAN Magazin
(27 July 2016)
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German classical cellists
Echo (music award) winners
1982 births
Living people
People from Pirmasens