チェリスト： クリストフ・クロワゼ Christoph Croise
Christoph Croise (born 3 December 1993 in Filderstadt/Germany) is a French-German-Swiss cellist.
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, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Munich's Residenz, St. Petersburg's, the Philharmonia St. Petersburg, the Wigmore Hall London, and Baku's State Philharmonia.[citation needed] Several of his concerts have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, the SRF, the RTS, the RSI, the WMFT and others.
As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors including M. Sanderling, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones and D. Botinis, with various orchestras including the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra, Baku, Azerbaijan, the Skyline Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt, the Camerata, Zurich, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, 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 Croise has been invited to perform at festivals including the Festival "Musical Olympus" in St. Petersburg, New York, and Baku, the Lucerne Festival, the Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert", 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, Bart?omiej Nizio?, Oliver Schnyder, Oxana Shevchenko, Nikita Mndoyants, Lorenzo Soules, Anna Fedorova and Alexander Panfilov.
He has been laureate of several first prizes at international competitions including the Schoenfeld International String Competition (Harbin, China, 2016), the Manhattan International Music Competition (2016), the International "Salieri-Zinetti" Competition (Verona, Italy, 2016), the International Johannes Brahms Competition (2015), the International Competition "Ibla Grand Prize" in Sicily (2010), the International Competition "Petar Konjovi?" in Belgrade (2009), the Migros-Kulturprozent in Zurich (2015) and the International Carlos Prieto Competition (Morelia, Mexico, 3rd Prize, 2016).
His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics.
Croise began playing the cello at the age of seven under the tutelage of Katharina Kuhne. 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.[citation needed]
Christoph Croise plays on a Goffriller cello made in Venice in 1712.