Christoph Croisé

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

Christoph Croisé during a CD recording, Church Oberstrass, Zurich/Switzerland, November 2017

Biography and career

At the age of 17, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall, where he has since performed on several occasions.

He appears regularly in concert halls including Zurich's Tonhalle, the Berliner Philharmonie, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Munich's Residenz, St. Petersburg's, the Philharmonia St. Petersburg, the Wigmore Hall London, and Baku's State Philharmonia. Several of his concerts have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, the SRF [1], the RTS, the RSI, the WMFT and others.

As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors including M. Sanderling, M. Venzago, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones and D. Botinis, with various orchestras including 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[2], the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse[3], the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tirana, the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Philharmonic Chamber 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[4], the Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert"[5], 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.

His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics.[6] His second album "Summer Night", including Othmar Schoeck's cello concerto, was released in February 2018 on GENUIN classics.[7]

Croisé began playing the cello at the age of seven under the tutelage of Katharina Kühne. Since 2007 he has been studying with Alexander Neustroev and, since 2013, with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Berlin University of Arts. He has benefited from major artistic advice from Steven Isserlis, Michael Sanderling, David Geringas, Walter Grimmer, and Frans Helmerson.

Christoph Croisé plays on a Goffriller cello made in Venice in 1712.

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.[8]
  • 2016: 3rd Prize International Carlos Prieto Competition, Morelia, Mexico[9]
  • 2016: 1st Prize Salieri-Zinetti Competition, Verona, Italy.[10]
  • 2016: Stipendiary at the Migros Kulturprozent Competition and included in the Concert Agency of the Migros Kulturprozent[11]
  • 2017: Golden Medal "First Berliner International Music Competition"[12]
  • 2017: Swiss Ambassadors Award[13]
  • 2018: First Grand Prize "2nd Berliner International Music Competition"[14]
  • 2018: "Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics 2019"[15]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/concerto/spaetromantische-zauberei-christophe-croise-spielt-schoeck
  2. ↑ http://joachim-raff.ch/jra-eroeffnungskonzert/
  3. ↑ https://issuu.com/media.pop/docs/prog_orchestre_symphonique_de_mulho_21bcb6dd054790
  4. ↑ https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/directory-of-artists/christoph_croise/1296
  5. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/buehne/von-unerwarteten-gluecksmomenten-1.18129730
  6. ↑ ‎„Visions“ von Christoph Croisé & Oxana Shevchenko (in German), 2015-05-10, retrieved 2018-10-10
  7. ↑ ‎„Schoeck: Summer Night“ von Christoph Croisé, Gevorg Gharabekyan & I Tempi (in German), 2018-02-02, retrieved 2018-10-10
  8. ↑ "Christoph Croisé wins Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition cello section". The Strad. 2016-07-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. ↑ "Prizes Awarded at Mexico's Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition". The Violin Channel. 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  10. ↑ 1st Prize International Salieri-Zinetti Competition, Verona, Italy
  11. ↑ "172'800 Franken für den Schweizer Instrumentalmusik-Nachwuchs". Migros-Kulturprozent. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  12. ↑ Winners, Berliner International Music Competition
  13. ↑ Swiss Ambassadors Award, www.eda.admin.ch
  14. ↑ "Prior winners of the Manhattan Music Competition, Carnegie Hall". International Music Competition: piano, violin, viola, cello, singing (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  15. ↑ "Le violoncelliste Christoph Croisé remporte le Prix Jeune soliste 2019 des Médias francophones publics". France Musique (in French). 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
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