Born in 1987 in Zwickau, Germany, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including first prize at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2005 and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker had her first cello lessons in 1992 at the Zwickau Robert Schumann Conservatory before going on to study with Peter Bruns at the Carl Maria Weber Conservatory in Dresden and in Leipzig at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is the kind of performer who seems to have been born for her instrument. Tall and willowy, she radiates an instinctive certainty as she plays, often with her eyes shut, her entire presence and manner – bowing, fingering, body language – exuding a sense that music and the cello are in her genes. Her particular intensity of expression has been described by Die ZEIT as “heartbreakingly sad and instinctively beautiful.” Among the highlights of her career to date are performances with the Munich Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, the Maryinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer, the Dresden Philharmonic and Dimitri Kitayenko, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Emmanuel Krivine, the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Alan Buribayev, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Alexander Shelley, and the Orchestre de Paris with Marek Janowski. Her venue recitals have included Baden-Baden, Munich, Paris, Barcelona and Lucerne and her solo repertoire extends from the Bach Suites through Romantic works to the music of contemporary composers. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is supported by the Kronberg Academy. 

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"This is a marvellous disc, one of the most enjoyable I have heard in a long time... a great line-up of soloists, who seem to know one another very well, or to have clicked miraculously, with results that, in the case of the 'Trout' Quintet, are more completely satisfactory than any account I have ever heard of this work."
BBC Music Magazine, July 2009

Project: Pentatone recording of Schubert's Trout Quintet, a collaboration between BBT Award Winners Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Antoine Tamestit, with BBT Honorary Committee member Christian Tetzlaff violin, plus Alois Posch double bass

• Survival money whilst studying
• Purchase of concert attire
• Help towards purchasing a new bow

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