Julian Steckel (born 1982) is a German cellist and academic teacher.

Life

Steckel was born in 1982 in

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as the son of piano teacher Vilja Steckel and violin teacher and

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Helfried Steckel. He completed the

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at the old-language . At the age of five Steckel began studying cello to play with Ulrich Voss in

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. Later he studied with

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in Saarbrücken,

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in Berlin,

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in Vienna and

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in Berlin. After receiving prizes at the "

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" music competition, he was awarded a prize at the

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of the

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in 2003. In 2010 he won the

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. In 2012, Steckel received the

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in the category ''Nachwuchskünstler (Cello)'' with his album ''Korngold, Bloch, Goldschmidt: Cello Concertos'', published by Cavi-Music. From 2011 to 2017 Steckel was professor for cello at the

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.Steckel on the website of the ''Rostock University of Music and Theatre''
/ref> Since October 2017 he has been working in the same position at the

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Discography

* ''Primavera: Preisträger Deutscher Musikwettbewerb'' (with Francesco Piemontesi, piano) * ''Spannungen 2005: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'' (with Stefan Dohr, François Leleux,

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, Priya Mitchell, Hanna Weinmeister, Stefan Fehlandt, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Julian Steckel, Danjulo Ishizaka) * ''Spannungen 2005: Johannes Brahms'' (with

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, Hanna Weinmeister, Stefan Fehlandt, Julian Steckel, Gustav Rivinius) * ''Klughardt Kammermusik'' (Leipziger Streichquartett; Olga Gollej, piano; Julian Steckel, cello) * ''Mendelssohn – Works for Cello & Piano'' (with Paul Rivinius, piano) * ''Korngold- Goldschmidt- Bloch'' (under Daniel Raiskin) * ''French Cello Sonatas'' (with Paul Rivinius) * ''Rachmaninoff & Prokofieff'' (Paul Rivinius) * ''French Cello Sonatas ll'' (Paul Rivinius) * ''CPE Bach Cello Concertos'' (

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)

References

External links

*
Interview with the Swiss Classics Portal Classicpoint.ch

at the Rheinland-Pfalz, 24 May 2013
Julian Steckel bei Musik & Theater Saar
retrieved 18 May 2020.
Personal website
* Werner Theurich

on Spiegel Online 2 July 2011
Interview mit Julian Steckel im VAN Magazin
(27 July 2016) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Steckel, Julian German classical cellists Echo (music award) winners 1982 births Living people People from Pirmasens