Success for HfMT cellists

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Daniel Wachsmuth, concert exam student in Prof. Sebastian Klinger's cello class, has won the audition for the solo position with the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra

The Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra and Theater Bielefeld together form the "Bühnen und Orchester der Stadt Bielefeld". The orchestra has been led by General Music Director Alexander Kalajdzic since the 2010/11 season. Since 2018, the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle has been the permanent venue of the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra and thus one of the three venues of the Bühnen und Orchester der Stadt Bielefeld.

Vita
Daniel Wachsmuth received his first cello lessons at the age of six, first with Christian Drechsel and then with Wieland Pörner at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau. He then studied in Leipzig with Peter Bruns and with Troels Svane in Lübeck.

He is currently continuing his musical training in the concert exam at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Sebastian Klinger. In a duo with pianist Ludmilla Kogan, he was awarded 1st prize at the 2012 International Brahms Competition.

Daniel Wachsmuth was a scholarship holder of the chamber music foundation Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz as well as its sponsorship award winner in 2013, where he worked with important artists such as Antje Weithaas, Daniel Gaede, Friedemann Eichhorn, Boris Garlitsky, Kalle Randalu, José Gallardo and Roland Glassl. He can also be heard playing chamber music as a member of Trio Bartholdy, which was founded in Munich in 2017. He was a scholarship holder of the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the SINFONIMA Foundation Mannheim and Yehudi Menuhin - Live Music Now Leipzig, and the passionate orchestral musician was a substitute in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and a member of the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He has also appeared as principal cellist with the Canadian Opera Company Toronto. He has performed as a soloist with the Camerata Villa Musica, the Kammerphilharmonie Amadé, the Plauen-Zwickau Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chursächsische Philharmonie and the HMT Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also received musical and artistic inspiration at masterclasses with Philippe Muller, Lynn Harrell, Wolfgang Böttcher, Jens Peter Maintz, Josephine Knight, Ivan Monighetti and Markus Stocker.