Gabriel Schwabe is a laureate of three of the world’s most prestigious cello competitions: the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin, the Concours Rostropovich in Paris and the Pierre Fournier Award in London.
As a soloist he has worked with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ulster Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Danish Chamber Orchestra, the Malmö and Norrköping Symphony Orchestras and the China NCPA Orchestra, Beijing with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Dennis Russell-Davies, Adam Fischer, Joana Mallwitz, Cornelius Meister, Giancarlo Guerrero, Michael Sanderling and Marc Soustrot.
In 2010 he gave his recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall. He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Kronberg Academy Festival, Amsterdam Biennale and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and has performed with artists including Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Kirill Gerstein, Roland Pöntinen and Enrico Pace.
He was born in Berlin to German-Spanish parents, studied with Catalin Ilea at the Universität der Künste Berlin and with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy, and received further stimulus from János Starker, Gary Hoffman, Gidon Kremer and András Schiff. He is a cello professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and the Conservatorium Maastricht. He is married to violinist Hellen Weiß, and plays a cello by Giuseppe Guarneri (Cremona, 1695).
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