Festival. Hohe Tauern.

Artists.

Festival Hohe Tauern - Chamber music series castle concert 2023

Simon Eberle

Simon Eberle is a permanent member of the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. At the same time, he is currently completing his master's degree with Jens Peter Maintz at the UdK in Berlin. He was previously part of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and had a temporary contract with the Munich Philharmonic.

He also completed his training with Troels Svane in Lübeck and Wen-Sinn Yang in Munich and in the academy of the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester. Master classes with musicians such as David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Boettcher, Natalia Gutman and Gary Hoffman (Kronberg Academy) as well as chamber music with the Artemis, Armida and Vogler Quartets and Ferenc Rados, Tabea Zimmermann, Pamela Frank and Gabor Takacs-Nagy were decisive for his further development.

He has performed at festivals such as the Heidelberger Frühling, the Verbier Festival Solo Academy, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the Zermatt Festival, the Aix en Provence Festival and the festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig Holstein, playing with musicians such as Igor Levit, Viviane Hagner, Boris Garlitzky, Pekka Kuusisto, Fabian Müller, Marc Bouchkov, Suyeon Kim, Ning Feng, Edicson Ruiz, Kalle Randalu, Veronika Eberle and David Geringas. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras under conductors such as Reinhardt Goebel, Werner Erhardt, Dietger Holm and Peter Eötvös.

He has also played in orchestras such as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Hamburg Camerata, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the HR Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra. He was selected to participate in Valery Gergiev's Russian-German Music Academy in cooperation with the Mariinsky Theater at the "Stars of the White Nights" festival in Saint Petersburg.

Simon Eberle was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, the German Foundation for Musical Life, Yehudi Menuhin "LiveMusicNow", the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. He was awarded 2 audience prizes at the Moritzburg Festival 2018. He was also awarded the sponsorship prize of the city of Donauwörth and the audience prize of the Ingolstadt Concert Association.

His most recent competition successes include 1st Prize and Mahler Prize at the 3rd International Gustav Mahler Competition 2021 and the Golden Medal at the 5th Manhattan International Music Competition 2020.

Simon Eberle has performed in numerous television, radio, live and CD productions in Germany and abroad, including for Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall. The young cellist also devotes himself intensively to contemporary music and jazz.

He was inspired by playing (premiere) performances and contact with composers and musicians such as Unsuk Chin, Matthias Pintscher, Olga Neuwirth, Helmut Lachenmann, Frederic Rzewski, Markus Stockhausen, Klaus Doldinger, Brett Dean, Anders Hillborg and Jörg Widmann. Simon Eberle learned the baroque musical style through intensive exchange and concertizing with musicians such as Ton Koopman, Reinhardt Goebel, Werner Erhardt, Kristin von der Goltz, Raphael Alpermann, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor and Anner Bylsma.

Simon Eberle plays on a violoncello by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume from 1847, kindly on loan from a private collection.

Please send your inquiries by e-mail to anfrage@festivalhohetauern.at.
Note: The website is under construction and is constantly being expanded.