Stjepan Hauser (; born 15 June 1986), known professionally as HAUSER, is a Croatian cellist. He is a member of
2CELLOS
2CELLOS (stylized 2CΞLLOS) were a Croatian cellist duo, consisting of classically trained cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 2011, they released six albums. They played instrumental arrangements of wel ...
, along with
Luka Šulić
Luka Šulić (born 25 August 1987) is a Slovenian-Croatian cellist. He is a member of 2CELLOS, along with Stjepan Hauser.
Early life
Šulić was born in Maribor, Slovenia. Šulić's father, Božo (through whom Šulić has Croatian citizenship ...
.
Early life and musical training
Hauser was born in
Pula,
Croatia
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, into a musical family, where he began his musical education. His mother plays percussion. His sister is a journalist in Pula.
Hauser finished secondary school in
Rijeka. He studied in
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...
but completed his undergraduate studies with
Natalia Pavlutskaya at Trinity College of Music (now
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...
) London. He completed his postgraduate studies with
Ralph Kirshbaum
Ralph Henry Kirshbaum (born March 4, 1946) is an American cellist. During his career he has performed as soloist with major orchestras worldwide, won prizes in several international competitions, and recorded extensively.
Early life and education ...
as a Dorothy Stone Scholar at
RNCM
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education ...
in
Manchester
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and with
Bernard Greenhouse in USA.
Career
Hauser has performed in more than 40 countries including debuts in
Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London. Originally called Bechstein Hall, it specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leadi ...
,
Royal Albert Hall,
Amsterdam Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouw, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls i ...
,
Southbank Centre and many more.
In October 2006, Hauser was chosen to perform at the gala at
Palazzo Vecchio in Florence for the late
Mstislav Rostropovich. Following this appearance, Hauser has been invited to perform in numerous festivals in Europe. At the International Holland Music Sessions 2009, he was chosen to participate in the "New Masters on Tour" concert series, presenting young artists in prestigious concert venues all over the continent.
In December 2007, Hauser played the
Kol Nidre
Kol Nidre (also known as Kol Nidrey or Kol Nidrei; Aramaic: ''kāl niḏrē'') is a Hebrew and Aramaic declaration which is recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement"). Strictly ...
with the Metropolitan Sinfonia at a Gala Tribute Concert dedicated to
Mstislav Rostropovich. Subsequently, Hauser went on to perform and record as a solo artist including his recording of British composer
Christopher Ball
Christopher Ball (7 July 1936 – 7 April 2022) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, clarinetist and recorder player.
Early life and education
Ball was born in Leeds in 1936. His father had trained in piano tuning and his mother was a ...
's First Concerto for Cello, written by the composer specifically for him. The album, ''Christopher Ball: Music for Cello'', was recorded at the first live performance of the
concerto in 2010, and features former
Greenwich Trio member,
Yoko Misumi, on piano.
On 11 June 2009, Hauser launched his channel on
YouTube
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, which had since reached over 680 million views by September 2022. In January 2011, Hauser, along with friend and fellow cellist
Luka Šulić
Luka Šulić (born 25 August 1987) is a Slovenian-Croatian cellist. He is a member of 2CELLOS, along with Stjepan Hauser.
Early life
Šulić was born in Maribor, Slovenia. Šulić's father, Božo (through whom Šulić has Croatian citizenship ...
, performed a cover of
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
's "
Smooth Criminal
"Smooth Criminal" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 14, 1988, as the seventh single from his seventh album, '' Bad'' (1987). It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. The lyrics add ...
" which was played solely on
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...
. In just a few days, the music video became a
YouTube
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sensation
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In arts and entertainment In literature
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* Sensation novel, a Britis ...
.
The album ''Hauser Classic'' was released on 7 February 2020, in which he plays alongside the London Symphony Orchestra. The album was produced by
Nick Patrick.
During the COVID-19 quarantine, unable to tour in support of his solo album, Hauser released three performances via live streaming. The first, ''Hauser: Alone Together'', released on 27 April 2020 was performed at the Arena Pula, in Stjepan's hometown of Pula, Croatia, on the Istrian peninsula. The second, also titled ''Hauser: Alone Together'', was performed at Krka National Park, at the Krka Waterfalls in central Croatia. The second video was released on 15 June 2020, to celebrate the artist's 34th birthday. The third, again titled ''Hauser: Alone Together'', was recorded at
Fort Lovrijenac
Fort Lovrijenac or St. Lawrence Fortress, often called "Dubrovnik's Gibraltar", is a fortress and theater outside the western wall of the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, above sea level.[Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...]
, Croatia, recognisable to many fans from the HBO series, ''
Game of Thrones''. A special 2 disc edition of ''Hauser Classic'' is scheduled for October 2020 release. It includes a DVD of the three ''Hauser: Alone Together'' videos.
The album ''Hauser plays Morricone'' premiered on YouTube on 27 October 2020.
Collaborations
Hauser has worked with cellists such as
Mstislav Rostropovich,
Bernard Greenhouse,
Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff (18 November 1951 – 23 December 2016) was an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Early life
Heinrich Schiff was born on 18 November 1951 in Gmunden, Austria. His parents, Helga (née Riemann) and Helmut Schiff, were composers. H ...
,
Frans Helmerson Frans Helmerson (born 1945) is a Swedish cellist, pedagogue, and conductor.
Biography
Helmerson was born in 1945 and by the age of 8 began playing cello. Later on, he studied with Guido Vecchi in Götheborg, Giuseppe Selmi in Rome, and with Willia ...
,
Arto Noras
Arto Noras (born 12 May 1942, in Turku) is a Finnish cellist who is one of Finland's most celebrated instrumentalists and amongst the most outstanding internationally acknowledged cellists of his generation.
At the age of 8, Arto Noras started ...
,
Ralph Kirshbaum
Ralph Henry Kirshbaum (born March 4, 1946) is an American cellist. During his career he has performed as soloist with major orchestras worldwide, won prizes in several international competitions, and recorded extensively.
Early life and education ...
,
Valter Despalj,
Philippe Muller Philippe Muller (born 20 April 1946, in Mulhouse) is a French cellist.
Biography
Philippe Muller (born April 20, 1946, in Mulhouse) is a French cellist and pedagogue.
His first contact with the cello was under the guidance of Dominique Prete, p ...
,
Thomas Demenga
Thomas Demenga (born 12 June 1954) is a Swiss composer and cellist.
Life and career
Born in Bern, Demenga studied with Walter Grimmer, Antonio Janigro, Leonard Rose and Mstislav Rostropovich and at the Juilliard School in New York, among othe ...
,
Young-Chang Cho
Young-Chang Cho (born 1958 in Seoul) is a Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany's Ruhr Area.
Career
Young-Chang Cho was born in Seoul in 1958. He began cello lessons at the age of eight. From 1971, ...
,
Reinhard Latzko,
Karine Georgian, Roel Dieltiens, and
Alexander Ivashkin
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Ivashkin studied at the Gnessin Institute, where his teache ...
, to mention a few.
In early 2011, Hauser recorded an album with fellow Croatian Damir Urban. The album, the self-titled ''Urban and Hauser'', was released in the summer of 2011. Also in the spring of 2011, he recorded an album with Croatian pop star
Oliver Dragojević
Oliver Dragojević (; 7 December 1947 – 29 July 2018) was a Croatian singer and composer, who was considered one of the most enduring musical stars and cultural icons in Croatia with a discography that spanned nearly five decades. His style ble ...
. The album, ''Noć nek' tiho svira'', was released in October 2011. Also in 2011, they performed together in Pula. That fall, along with fellow
2CELLOS
2CELLOS (stylized 2CΞLLOS) were a Croatian cellist duo, consisting of classically trained cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 2011, they released six albums. They played instrumental arrangements of wel ...
member Luka Šulić, he began touring as a member of the Elton John band. Since then, he has performed with the band hundreds of times, on tour all around the world, and in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the Million Dollar Piano concert performance at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace. In November 2011, he released another classical album: ''Brahms, Beethoven & Bruch for Clarinet, Cello & Piano'', again with Ms. Misumi, and clarinettist Leslie Craven.
In 2018 and 2019, Hauser released a series of videos with Uzbek-American pianist
Lola Astanova
Lola Astanova (russian: link=no, Лола Астанова; born on 3 July 1982 in Tashkent, USSR) is a Russian-American pianist noted for her visual performance and piano transcriptions.
Career
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the age of six Asta ...
on social media.
Greenwich Trio
Together with the Slovenian violinist
Lana Trotovsek and Japanese pianist
Yoko Misumi, Hauser was a member of the
Greenwich Trio, described by cellist
Bernard Greenhouse as the "New Beaux Arts Trio". The Trio won a series of first prizes in the international chamber music competitions in the UK,
Belgium
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and
Italy
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. The Greenwich Trio had masterclasses with
Amadeus Quartet,
Alban Berg Quartet
The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet founded in Vienna, Austria in 1970, named after Alban Berg.
Members
Beginnings
The Berg Quartet was founded in 1970 by four young professors of the Vienna Academy of Music, and made its debut in ...
,
Guarneri Quartet
The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex tone and its bold, dramatic interpretations of the quartet literature, with a particular aff ...
,
Beaux Arts Trio
The Beaux Arts Trio was a noted piano trio, celebrated for their vivacity, emotional depth and wide-ranging repertoire. They made their debut on 13 July 1955, at the Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, known today as the ...
,
Trio Fontenay The Trio Fontenay was a German classical music piano trio which performed worldwide and recorded much of the significant piano trio repertoire between the years 1980 and 2006.
Formation
The Trio Fontenay was formed in Hamburg in 1980. The original ...
,
Menahem Pressler
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Pressler is Jewish. Following Kristallnacht, he and his immediate family fled Nazi Germany in 1939, ,
Bernard Greenhouse,
Ivry Gitlis
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,
Stephen Kovacevich,
Ralf Gothoni,
Niklas Schmidt,
Arnold Steinhardt,
Valentin Erben
Valentin Erben (born 1945 in Vienna) is an Austrian cellist.
Life
He studied with Walter Reichardt in Munich, Tobias Kühne in Vienna and André Navarra in Paris. In 1970, he became a charter member of the Alban Berg Quartett, with which he play ...
, and
Eberhard Feltz
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. In March 2008, they performed
Beethoven
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's
Triple Concerto
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with conductor
Barry Wordsworth
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Wordsworth is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Ballet and has had a long relationship with company. He was first appointed as Assistant Cond ...
and in September the same year they played in the sold out opening festival at
King's Place, London.
2CELLOS
Under the name
2CELLOS
2CELLOS (stylized 2CΞLLOS) were a Croatian cellist duo, consisting of classically trained cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 2011, they released six albums. They played instrumental arrangements of wel ...
, Hauser and Šulić recorded an album with
Sony Music Entertainment
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, which was released in July 2011.
In January 2012, they appeared as the special musical guests on Fox's hit TV series ''
Glee
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Glee may also refer to:
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* ''Glee'' (TV series), an American musical comedy-drama TV series, and related media created by Ryan Murphy
* ''Glee'' (Bran Van 30 ...
'' where they performed "
Smooth Criminal
"Smooth Criminal" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 14, 1988, as the seventh single from his seventh album, '' Bad'' (1987). It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. The lyrics add ...
" in the Michael Jackson tribute episode. This was the first time that an instrumental duo had performed on the show in this guest spot.
2CELLOS' arrangement of the song, which featured actors
Grant Gustin
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and
Naya Rivera
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, debuted at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Digital Songs Chart and landed their debut album in the Top 100.
In late 2012 and early 2013, a second 2CELLOS album, ''In2ition'', was released.
After the release of the second album, Hauser spent several years touring, either as a member of 2CELLOS or with
Elton John. A third album was released in early 2015 called ''Celloverse,'' just prior to a 38-city US tour.
From 2014 through 2016, Hauser performed with Oliver Dragojević on at least five occasions, including the 2014 Split Festival, with Luka Šulić appearing briefly to join them, in free concerts in Rakalj and on Korčula, also in 2014, and as a guest at 2CELLOS' 5th anniversary free concert in Tomislav Square in Zagreb in 2016. His final performance in Las Vegas with
Elton John was in October 2015.
2CELLOS' fourth album, ''Score,'' a collection of movie music, was recorded with the
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orc ...
and released in 2017. The first live performance was held in December 2016, at the Sydney (Australia) Opera House and is available on DVD. 2CELLOS' fifth album, ''Let There Be Cello,'' was released in 2018.
After 2CELLOS' 2019 US tour, the duo took a one-year break, to work on solo classical albums for
Sony Music
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and to tour individually.
Awards and achievements
*
Ribbon of an
Order of Danica Hrvatska
The Order of Danica Hrvatska ( hr, Red Danice hrvatske; lit. "Order of the Croatian Morning Star") is the fourteenth most important medal given by the Republic of Croatia. The order was founded on 1 April 1995. The medal is awarded for different pu ...
with the face of
Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić Splićanin (), in Latin Marcus Marulus Spalatensis (18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist who coined the term "psychology". He is the national poet of Croatia. According to ...
for a special contribution to the culture and promotion of
Croatia
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in the world.
Hauser is laureate of international competitions and awards such as the PLG Young Artists Auditions 2009, the J & A Beare Solo
Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wor ...
Competition 2009, NYOS Staffa Award 2009, the
Philharmonia Orchestra – Martin Musical Scholarship Fund 2009 and 2008, the
Eastbourne
Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...
Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition 2009 and 2007, the
Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. T ...
International Young Concert Artists Competition 2008 and 2006, the Computers in Personnel International
Concerto Competition 2008, the
Frankopan Fund Award 2006, and the MBF Music Education Award 2006 and 2005. He has also won international cello competitions and awards such as the
Adam International Cello Festival and Competition in New Zealand 2009, and the VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists 2009. Altogether, Hauser collected a total of 21 first prizes at national and international competitions and, as a consequence, he was invited to perform twice on Gala concerts for HRH
Prince Charles at
Buckingham Palace and
St. James's Palace.
In May 2012, Hauser won four
Porin awards, two with Luka Šulić (2Cellos), and the other two for his collaboration with
Damir Urban
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Early years
Damir Urban was born on 19 September 1968 in Rijeka, Croatia, ...
on their album ''Urban & Hauser''.
Hauser subsequently won an additional Porin award, for Best Video Release, along with Luka Šulić (2CELLOS) and Dušan Kranjc (drummer) for their Arena Zagreb DVD.
Discography
References
External links
Stjepan Hauserdiscography at
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the ...
Official Hauser websiteOfficial 2CELLOS websiteHauser extended classical music selection with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra 2017.
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2Cellos members
Croatian cellists
Living people
People from Pula
1986 births
21st-century Croatian people
Elton John Band members