1. Biography and Career

2. Performances

3. Instrument

4. Awards

5. References

6. External links

Christoph Croisé (born 3 December 1993 in Filderstadt/Germany but raised in Niederlenz/Switzerland) is a French-German-Swiss cellist.

Biography 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 Steven Isserlis, Michael Sanderling, David Geringas, Walter Grimmer, and Frans Helmerson.

At the age of 17, Christoph made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City after having won the IBLA Foundation Grand Prize^[1], which included a concert tour through the United States.

His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics.^[2] His second album "Summer Night", including Othmar Schoeck's cello concerto, was released in February 2018 on GENUIN classics.^[3] His third album (Haydn, Vivaldi Cello Concertos) was released in March 2019 on AVIE Records.^[4]

Performances

As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors including M. Sanderling, M. Venzago, D. Boyd, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones and D. Botinis, with various orchestras including the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra Baku/Azerbaijan, the Camerata Zurich, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Camerata Switzerland^[5], the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse^[6], the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tirana, the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, 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 Lucerne Festival^[7], the Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert"^[8], the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden, the Schwarzwald Music Festival, the Festival de Sully, the Belfast International Arts Festival, the Emilia-Romagna Festival and the Festival de Musique de Wissembourg. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Mayuko Kamio, Alexander Zemtsov, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Oliver Schnyder, Oxana Shevchenko, Nikita Mndoyants, Lorenzo Soulès, Anna Fedorova and Alexander Panfilov.

Several of his concerts have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, the SRF ^[9], the RTS, the RSI, the WMFT and others.

Instrument

Christoph Croisé plays on a Goffriller cello made in Venice in 1712.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

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, 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.^[10]
• 2016: 3rd Prize International Carlos Prieto Competition, Morelia, Mexico^[11]
• 2016: 1st Prize Salieri-Zinetti Competition, Verona, Italy.^[12]
• 2016: Stipendiary at the Migros Kulturprozent Competition and included in the Concert Agency of the Migros Kulturprozent^[13]
• 2017: Golden Medal "First Berliner International Music Competition"^[14]
• 2017: Swiss Ambassadors Award^[15]
• 2018: First Grand Prize "2nd Berliner International Music Competition"^[16]
• 2018: "Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics 2019"^[17]

References

External links

• Christoph Croisé official website
• Christoph Croisé Interview The Strad Magazine, 1 August 2016
• Christoph Croisé wins Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition cello section, 31 July 2016, The Strad Magazine
• Concert Review on Christoph Croisé's performance of J. Raff Cello Concerto No. 1 by Mark Thomas, Raff Society, 19 October 2012
• Christoph Croisé in [https://www.theviolinchannel.com/salieri-zinetti-chamber-music-competition-prizes-verona/ The Violin Channel], 13 September 2016

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