Philipp Schupelius is a multi-award-winning cellist and has captivated 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. These studies are funded by the Sodalitas-Patronat. Philipp's many distinctions include the Discovery Award at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2020 and, just this summer, the Silver Medal at the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest at the Festival Radio France in Montpellier. Most recently, he received the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant in October 2022. In the very same month, he was awarded the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize 2023. His debut CD will be released next year.  Philipp made his debut in 2017 with Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and the Bergische Symphoniker. The concert was broadcast by WDR. Since then he has performed as a soloist at the Tonhalle Zurich, the Festival Next Generation, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Dresden Music Festival, the KKL Lucerne, the Rheingau Music Festival and together with Daniel Hope at Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival. In January 2022 he played his first recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. Among the highlights of the coming months are a performance of "Intercourse of Fire and Water" by the Chinese composer Tan Dun with the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber music with Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn and with pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman at Lobe Block Berlin. Highlights in 2023 will include recitals at the Musikfestspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern and at Festival Radio France. Born in Berlin in 2003, Philipp began playing the cello at the age of eight with Ulrich Voss. From 2018 to 2022, he continued his studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2018, he received a scholarship from the Kronberg Academy. He is a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy Berlin, the Kronberg Academy, the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. Since March 2020 Philipp has been supported by the Hoelzer v. Borcke'sche Musikstiftung. He attended masterclasses with Lynn Harrell, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Boettcher, Claudio Bohorquez, Jens-Peter Maintz, Steven Isserlis and Christoph Eschenbach. In summer 2018 he took part in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad where he was taught by Ivan Monighetti. In January 2022 he played his first recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. Among the highlights of the coming months are a performance of "Intercourse of Fire and Water" by the Chinese composer Tan Dun with the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber music with Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. As a prize winner of the competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund, since February 2019 Philipp has been playing a cello with note Joseph Gagliano, Neapoli 1720.