In 2026, Deutsche Grammophon released Yu-Peng Chen’s album The Poem of Life, a twelve-movement symphonic suite. Philipp Schupelius appears on the recording as a soloist alongside Daniel Hope and Avi Avital. The album was recorded with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zhang Liang. At the age of just 17, Philipp Schupelius received the Discovery Award at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). In October 2022, he was awarded the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant and, in the same month, the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis. He also received the First Great Award at the Manhattan Music Competition in late 2021 and won the Silver Medal at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in 2022. He is a multiple first-prize winner at the German national Jugend musiziert competition. Since the 2024/25 season, Philipp Schupelius has been a Debut Artist at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam. Philipp Schupelius has had the opportunity to learn from exceptional musicians. Since 2024, he has studied with Antje Weithaas as part of the Professional Studies programme. Before that, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt was a particularly formative influence: Schupelius studied with him for six years and completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under his guidance. He previously studied with Ulrich Voss in the Pre-College programme at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He also received valuable advice from Justin Pearson, Daniel Hope and Anssi Karttunen. Another important experience was his participation in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad, where he studied with Ivan Monighetti in 2018. In masterclasses, he had the opportunity to work with the late distinguished cellists Lynn Harrell and Wolfgang Boettcher, as well as with Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Geiss and Frans Helmerson. In 2017, Philipp Schupelius made his solo debut performing Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” with the Bergische Symphoniker; the concert was broadcast by WDR. Since then, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous stages throughout Europe. In autumn 2023, he performed the gala concert marking the 50th anniversary of Pablo Casals’ death at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. He has also performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival alongside violinist Daniel Hope and violist Philip Dukes. At the same festival in 2024, he and percussionist Leon Lorenz gave the world premiere of Fazıl Say’s “Middle Eastern Children”, a work composed especially for them. The Hoelzer v. Borckesche Music Foundation has supported Philipp Schupelius since 2020. Since 2021, he has also been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). From 2017 to 2019, he was supported by the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. He was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and received a scholarship from the Kronberg Academy as early as 2018. Since October 2021, he has performed together with pianist Ron Huang for Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin.