{"id":2828,"date":"2021-04-20T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/kuenstler\/marie-elisabeth-hecker\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:01:17","slug":"marie-elisabeth-hecker","status":"publish","type":"knstler","link":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/kuenstler\/marie-elisabeth-hecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie-Elisabeth Hecker"},"featured_media":6844,"template":"","class_list":["post-2828","knstler","type-knstler","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"name":"Marie-Elisabeth Hecker","subtitle":"","saison":["2021","2025"],"instrument":"Violoncello","beschreibung_knstler":"","website":"https:\/\/dornmusic.com\/de\/portfolio\/marie-elisabeth-hecker\/","colorized-image":6848,"interview":[{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Born in:","antwort":"Zwickau"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Current centre of life: ","antwort":"Lower Lusatia \/ Spree Forest"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Instrument: ","antwort":"Violoncello"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Second, third or even fourth instrument: ","antwort":"Piano, voice - but amateurish"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"My career aspiration as a child: ","antwort":"Doctor"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"This was the profession my parents envisioned for me: ","antwort":"Musician"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Works or concert experiences that shaped me:","antwort":"Elgar Piano Quintet on CD, Brahms Requiem, visits to the ballet, concerts with Peter Bruns ???? "},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Work with the greatest music-making pleasure (and why?): ","antwort":"Schubert String Quintet 2nd Cello, because Schubert is my favourite composer and the 2nd cello is the best to listen to and be an impulse generator at the same time."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"I would like a work for my instrument by this composer (and why?): ","antwort":"A Brahms cello concerto, the double concerto is one of my favourites, would love to have \"more\" of it."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"I would get up in the middle of the night for that: ","antwort":"Children's screams ????, even if it is not \"pleasant\" music.  "},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Special \/ curious own concert experience: ","antwort":"At a festival we played \"From the End of Time\" by Oliver Messiaen. Very inappropriately, there was a roasted pig on a spit afterwards in the interval and alcohol which one was allowed to drink during the performance. They should have chosen a different programme...!"},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"My most valuable tip for the next generation of musicians:  ","antwort":"Ask yourself why you want to make music and what you want to achieve with it. Preferably, the words \"success\" or \"career\" are not present in the answer...."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"That's what I wish for the future of the classical music scene:  ","antwort":"I wish that the \"quiet and sensitive\" tones would be heard more than the fast, perfect and \"loud\" success-train horses."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"That's what I associate with Leipzig as a city of music: ","antwort":"It's the city where I studied cello. I feel at home there. "},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"Biography","antwort":"The german cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker touches with the emotional\u00a0unconditionality and warm sensitivity of her playing. With outward modesty and\u00a0great inner richness, she feels the music down to the last cell. She herself says about\u00a0the cello: \"For me, it is the most versatile instrument: it can sing, be a pulse\u00a0generator, the basis for all music, especially chamber music, the position of the tenor.\u00a0Besides, you can play it very naturally, you don't have to contort yourself.\"\r\n\r\nShe made\u00a0her international breakthrough with her sensational success at the 8th Rostropovich\u00a0Competition in Paris in 2005, where she became the first contestant in the event's\u00a0history to win first prize as well as two special prizes.\r\n\r\nSince then, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has become one of the most sought-after\u00a0soloists of the younger generation. Highlights of her career to date include\u00a0performances with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Deutsches\u00a0Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Israel Philharmonic\u00a0Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Paris,\u00a0Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Spanish National Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, and\u00a0Wiener Symphoniker. She has collaborated with conductors such as Barenboim,\u00a0Gergiev, Harding, Hengelbrock, Herreweghe, Janowski, Luisi, Nagano, Saraste,\u00a0Thielemann, and von Dohn\u00e1nyi.\r\n\r\nEspecially with her husband, the pianist Martin Helmchen, she appears in recitals all\u00a0over the world and has been a guest at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the\u00a0Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, L'Auditori Barcelona, the Berlin Philharmonie, the\u00a0Bozar Brussels, the Teatro Col\u00f3n Buenos Aires, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the\u00a0Wigmore Hall London, the Carnegie Hall New York, the Louvre Paris, the Toppan\u00a0Hall Tokyo, the Konzerthaus Vienna and the Tonhalle Zurich, among others.\r\n\r\nShe also regularly performs chamber music concerts in various formations with\u00a0Antje Weithaas, Christian Tetzlaff, Stephen Waarts, Carolin Widmann, Isabelle\u00a0Faust, Augustin Hadelich and Vilde Frang.\r\n\r\nShe is additionally the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Fliessen\u00a0International Chambermusic Festival alongside Martin Helmchen.\u00a0Together with Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker premiered York H\u00f6ller's\u00a0new double concerto in the spring of 2022 at the Ruhr Piano Festival and the K\u00f6lner\u00a0Philharmonie, which was also performed at the Ultraschall Festival in 2023.\r\n\r\nAlpha Classics released Marie-Elisabeth Hecker's recording of Brahms' cello sonatas\u00a0together with Martin Helmchen to great critical acclaim. Her second CD containing\u00a0Schubert\u00b4s Arpeggione Sonata and Trio No. 2 (together with Martin Helmchen and\u00a0Antje Weithaas) has been released by the same label alongside a CD with Elgar's\u00a0Cello Concerto (together with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra) and the Piano Quintet.\r\n\r\nBorn in Robert Schumann\u2019s hometown Zwickau in 1987, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker\u00a0started playing the cello at the age of five and attended the Robert Schumann\u00a0Conservatory, before the distinguished German cellist Peter Bruns became her\u00a0principal teacher. She continued her studies with Heinrich Schiff and at Kronberg\u00a0Academy with Frans Helmerson and subsequently took part in masterclasses with\u00a0eminent figures such as Anner Bylsma, Bernard Greenhouse, Frans Helmerson, Gary\u00a0Hoffman and Steven Isserlis. In 2009, she won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. In\u00a0addition to her concert activities, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker teaches masterclasses at\u00a0Kronberg Academy. In cooperation with Music Road Rwanda, she regularly travels\u00a0to Rwanda in order to support a local music school with concerts and educational\u00a0projects. She lives in Germany with her husband, pianist Martin Helmchen and their\u00a0four daughters."},{"acf_fc_layout":"frageantwort","frage":"","antwort":"Photo: Peter Rigaud"}],"veranstaltungen":[6788,6790,6792]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knstler\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knstler"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knstler"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/6792"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/6790"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/6788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conspiritoleipzig.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}