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Christoph Croisé

Christoph Croisé has emerged as one of Europe's fastest-rising young cellists, with a large variety of world-class collaborators listed on his CV by his early twenties. Even in an age of competition profusion, Croisé's list of competition prizes is impressive. Croisé was born on December 3, 1993, in Filderstadt, Germany, near Stuttgart, but grew up in Niederlenz, Switzerland. He took up the cello at seven and soon began lessons in his hometown and in nearby Zurich. Marked early as a major talent, Croisé began taking master classes from the likes of Steven Isserlis and Frans Helmerson and entering and winning competitions. Just the second of these was the major IBLA Foundation Competition in 2010; the competition, held in Italy, was sponsored by a New York-based group, and Croisé's grand prize entitled him to a U.S. concert tour. Thus, Croisé made his Carnegie Hall debut at the unusually early age of 17. Selected further items from his long list of competition victories include a first prize in cello at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in 2015, a gold medal at the First Annual Berliner International Music Competition in 2017, and the Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics 2019. Shortly after his 20th birthday, Croisé moved to Berlin and enrolled at the city's University of the Arts for studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. Though still a student, he notched an impressive set of orchestral appearances through the mid-2010s; he has appeared with the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia, the Bern Symphony in Switzerland, and the Sichuan Symphony in China, among others. Croisé made his recording debut in 2015, backing pianist Oxana Shevchenko on a recital on the Quartz Classics label. His solo debut came on the Genuin label in 2018, joining the chamber orchestra I Tempi on an album of music by Othmar Schoeck. Croisé's list of chamber music collaborators is long and includes Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Anna Fedorova, and Alexander Panfilov. His recording catalog was substantial by his early twenties. Croisé moved to Avie for a pair of albums in 2019: a recording of the Haydn concertos with the Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra and The Russian Album, a recital of works by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich with Panfilov on piano. Croisé has continued to record for Avie. He remained active through the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing The Solo Album (with works exclusively for solo cello) in 2021, a complete recording of the cello-and-piano works of Joachim Raff in 2022, and the recital Voyage Exotique in 2023. He also reunited that year with Shevchenko, releasing the album 1883: R. Strauss, Grieg, Fauré.
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