Born in 1987, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker began playing the cello at the age of four and was later a student at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau. At the age of 12, she won the Jugend musiziert competition for the first time. Her important awards include the special prize at the Dotzauer Competition in 2001 and the Borletti-Buitoni Fund Prize in 2009. Her international breakthrough came with her sensational success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2005, where she won both first prize and two special prizes - the first time in the history of this important cello competition. Since then she has been one of the most sought-after soloists and chamber musicians of the young generation. Highlights of her career to date include concerts with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Dresden Philharmonie, or the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few.
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