Philipp Schupelius is a cellist who has won many awards and has already thrilled audiences as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages. He is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. The study is made possible by the Sodalitas patronage.
His numerous awards include the “Discovery Award” of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2020 and, most recently this summer, the silver medal of the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest at the Festival Radio France in Montpellier. Most recently, he received the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant in October 2022. In the same month he was awarded the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize 2023. His debut CD will be released in the summer of 2023.
Philipp Schupelius already made his debut in 2017 with Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and the Bergische Symphoniker. The concert was broadcast by WDR. Seitdem spielte er solistisch in der Tonhalle Zürich, beim Festival Next Generation, im Konzerthaus Berlin, in der Philharmonie Berlin, bei den Dresdner Musikfestspielen, im KKL Luzern, beim Rheingau Musikfestival und mit Daniel Hope beim Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival.
In January 2022, he played his first recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. Highlights of the coming months include a performance of the piece “Intercourse of Fire and Water” by the Chinese composer Tan Dun with the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as chamber music with Daniel Hope (violin) and Philip Dukes (viola) at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. This year he will also perform recitals at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival and the Festival Radio France, among others.
Born in Berlin in 2003, Philipp Schupelius began playing the cello at the age of eight with Ulrich Voss. From 2018 to 2022, he studied at the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. He already received a scholarship from Kronberg Academy in 2018. He was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. Since March 2020, he has been sponsored by the Hoelzer v. Borcke Music Foundation.
In master classes he had lessons with Lynn Harrell, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Boettcher, Claudio Bohorquez, Jens-Peter Maintz, Daniel Hope, Daniel Geiss, Steven Isserlis and Christoph Eschenbach. In the summer of 2018, he participated in the Menuhin String Academy in Gstaad with Ivan Monighetti.
As a prize winner of the German Musical Instrument Fund competition, Schupelius has been playing a cello with slip Joseph Gagliano, Neapoli 1720 since February 2019.