Philipp Schupelius is an award-winning cellist and has already delighted audiences as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages. He is currently studying in Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt's class at Kronberg Academy in Taunus, which is made possible by the Sodalitas patronage endowed there.
In August 2023, Philipp Schupelius won the German Music Competition in Bonn. The prize includes a CD recording on the Leipzig label GENUIN. Other highlights of 2023 included the performance of the unusual work "Fire and Water" by Chinese composer Tan Dun with the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach, several concerts at the Festival Radio France in and around Montpellier and the memorial concert on the 50th anniversary of Pablo Casals' death at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. In the fall of 2023, Philipp Schupelius was 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, on which the cellist musically explores the world of ideas of the cellist of the century and peace activist Pablo Casals, the 50th anniversary of whose death was commemorated in 2023.
Philipp Schupelius received the "Discovery Award" from the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2020 at the age of 17. In October 2022 he received the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant and in the same month the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize. He was also awarded the First Great Award of the Manhattan Music Competition at the end of 2021 and the Silver Medal of the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest in 2022. He is a multiple first prize winner of Jugend musiziert.
Born in Berlin in 2003, Philipp Schupelius received his first cello lessons from Ulrich Voss in his home city at the age of eight. In 2017, he made his debut with the Bergische Symphoniker playing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations in a concert that was broadcast by WDR. Since then, Philipp has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages, including Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra in Rutesheim and in the main hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, and Haydn's C major Concerto at the Casals Forum in Kronberg and the Graz Opera, among others. He has performed with Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) at venues including the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, as well as at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In 2022 he played a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time.
Philipp Schupelius was able to learn from exceptional musicians, first and foremost, of course, from Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, whose student he has been for six years. He also received important advice from Daniel Hope and Anssi Karttunen. His participation in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad with Ivan Monighetti in 2018 was also essential. In masterclasses, he was able to get to know the exceptional cellists Lynn Harrell and Wolfgang Boettcher, among others, who have since passed away. He also received lessons from Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Geiss and Frans Helmerson as part of masterclasses.
The Hoelzer v. Borcke'schen 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 Kronberg Academy in 2018. Since October 2021, he has been playing together with pianist Ron Huang for YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now Berlin, an initiative with concerts for people in social institutions, among others.