Philipp Schupelius (Cello) has already delighted audiences as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages. He is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. His studies are made possible by the Sodalitas patronage. In August 2023, Philipp Schupelius won the German Music Competition in Bonn. The prize is linked, among other things, to a CD recording with the Leipzig label GENUIN. Further highlights of 2023 were the performance of the unusual work "Fire and Water" by the Chinese composer Tan Dun with the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra, several concerts at the Festival Radio France in and around Montpellier and the memorial concert on the 50th anniversary of Pablo Casals' death in the Beethovenhaus, Bonn. In autumn 2023 he will be a guest of the London Cello Society for the first time. His debut CD recorded at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn: "Pau! A Tribute to Casals" was released in September 2023. In it, Philipp Schupelius musically explores the world of thought of the century cellist and peace activist Pablo Casals, whose 50th death anniversary will be celebrated in 2023. At the age of 17, Philipp Schupelius was awarded the "Discovery Award" of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Currently, he received the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant in October 2022 and the Fanny Mendelssohn Grant in the same month. He was also the recipient of the Manhattan Music Competition's First Great Award in late 2021 and the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest Silver Medal in 2022. He is a multiple first prize winner of Jugend musiziert. Born in Berlin in 2003, Philipp began cello lessons at the age of eight with Ulrich Voss in Berlin. In 2017 he made his debut with Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and the Bergische Symphoniker, the concert was broadcast by WDR. Since then, Philipp has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages, playing Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra in Rutesheim and in the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, Haydn's C Major Concerto at the Casals Forum in Kronberg and the Graz Opera, among others. With Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) he played at the Frauenkirche, Dresden, and the Beethovenhaus, Bonn, and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, among others. In 2022, Philipp played a recital for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York. Philipp was able to learn from exceptional musicians, first and foremost, of course, from Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, whose pupil he has been for six years. He was given important advice by Justin Pearson, Daniel Hope and Anssi Karttunen. His participation in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad with Ivan Monighetti in 2018 was also essential, and in master classes he was able to get to know, among others, the exceptional cellists Lynn Harrell and Wolfgang Boettcher, who have since passed away. Also in master classes he received lessons from Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Geiss and Frans Helmerson, among others. The Hoelzer v. Borcke Music Foundation has supported Philipp since 2020. He was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. He already received a scholarship from the Kronberg Academy in 2018. Since October 2021, he has been playing together with the pianist Ron Huang for Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, Berlin.