Simon Eberle is associate principal cellist with the Dresden Philharmonic. He gained international recognition by winning first prize and the Mahler Prize at the 3rd International Gustav Mahler Competition in Prague in 2021, as well as the gold medal at the 5th Manhattan International Music Competition in 2020.
As a principal cellist, he has performed with, amongst others, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Hamburger Camerata, and on a fixed-term contract with the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. He also gained formative experience as a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Academy of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as with the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and, on a fixed-term contract, with the Munich Philharmonic.
He completed his master’s degree with top marks under Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin, having previously studied with Troels Svane in Lübeck and Wen-Sinn Yang in Munich. He gained further artistic inspiration in masterclasses with, among others, David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Boettcher, Natalia Gutman, Anner Bylsma and Gary Hoffman (Kronberg Academy).
As a soloist, he has performed under conductors such as Reinhard Goebel, Werner Ehrhardt, Dietger Holm and Peter Eötvös.
He also studied chamber music with the Artemis Quartet in Berlin and has collaborated regularly with Tabea Zimmermann and Heime Müller.
He received further guidance from members of the Vogler and Armida Quartets, as well as from Ferenc Rados, Pamela Frank, Klaus Hellwig and Gábor Takács-Nagy. He is also a regular member of the Frielinghaus Ensemble and has performed as a guest with the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Goldmund Quartet.
He has appeared as a guest at renowned festivals such as the Heidelberger Frühling, the Verbier Festival, the Zermatt Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Hangzhou International Music Festival, the St. Petersburg Festival of the White Nights, as well as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig- Holstein Festivals. In these contexts, he has performed with, amongst others, Igor Levit, Viviane Hagner, Boris Garlitzky, Marc Bouchkov, Kalle Randalu, Pekka Kuusisto, Fabian Müller, Veronika Eberle and David Geringas.
Simon Eberle was a scholarship holder of Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate, the German Music Life Foundation, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. At the 2018 Moritzburg Festival, he received two audience prizes. Further awards include an audience prize from the Ingolstadt Concert Society and a sponsorship award from the City of Donauwörth.
He plays a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1847), generously on loan from a private collection.