Friedrich Thiele, born in Dresden in 1996, has won numerous prestigious national and international prizes, including second prize, the audience award and the prize for best interpretation of the commissioned work at the 2019 ARD International Music Competition in Munich, as well as the 2019 German Music Competition prize. His successes at the 2019 International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen (second prize, audience award, orchestra prize), at the "Ton & Erklärung" competition in Munich in 2017 (1st prize) and at the TONALi competition in Hamburg in 2015 (3rd prize and audience prize) helped him launch an international career.
He has already performed as a soloist with many outstanding orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Theatre Orchestra Brasilia, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas. These engagements have taken him to many prestigious concert halls and venues, such as the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Herkulessaal and the 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 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 as a junior student at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, before graduating from the "Franz Liszt" University of Music in Weimar with a Bachelor of Music in 2016. He received his Master of Music at the Kronberg Academy in 2023, in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
Friedrich Thiele plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (ca. 1740), generously loaned to him by the Stradivari Stiftung Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray.