Friedrich Thiele, born in Dresden in 1996, has won numerous prestigious national and international prizes, including second prize, the audience prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the 2019 ARD International Music Competition, as well as the prize at the 2019 German Music Competition. His successes at the 2019 Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition (2nd prize, audience prize, orchestra prize), the 2017 "Ton & Erklärung" competition in Munich (1st prize) and the 2015 TONALi competition in Hamburg (3rd prize and audience prize) launched his international career.
As a soloist, he has already performed with many outstanding orchestras, such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the National Theatre in Brasilia, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Caracas. These engagements have taken him to many prestigious venues and concert halls, such as the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Herkulessaal and Gasteig in Munich.
Since 2021, he has been 1st concertmaster of the cellos at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. As a passionate chamber musician, he has already performed at renowned international festivals, where he has played with Igor Levit, Julia Fischer, Tabea Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Nils Mönkemeyer, among others.
Friedrich Thiele began his studies in 2011 with Peter Bruns in the junior programme at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, before completing his Bachelor of Music at the University of Music "Franz Liszt" Weimar in 2016. He received his Master of Music in 2023 at the Kronberg Academy in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
Friedrich Thiele plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (ca. 1740), which is generously loaned to him by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray.