Julian Steckel
Life
Steckel was born in 1982 in Pirmasens as the son of piano teacher Vilja Steckel and violin teacher and conductor Helfried Steckel.[3] He completed the Abitur at the old-language Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Pirmasens. At the age of five Steckel began studying cello to play with Ulrich Voss in Saarbrücken. Later he studied with Gustav Rivinius in Saarbrücken, Boris Pergamenschikow in Berlin, Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and Antje Weithaas in Berlin. After receiving prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" music competition, he was awarded a prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb of the Deutscher Musikrat in 2003. In 2010 he won the ARD International Music Competition.[4] In 2012, Steckel received the Echo Klassik in the category Nachwuchskünstler (Cello) with his album Korngold, Bloch, Goldschmidt: Cello Concertos, published by Cavi-Music.[5]
From 2011 to 2017 Steckel was professor for cello at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre.[1] Since October 2017 he has been working in the same position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.[6]
Discography
- Primavera: Preisträger Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (with Francesco Piemontesi, piano)
- Spannungen 2005: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (with Stefan Dohr, François Leleux, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Priya Mitchell, Hanna Weinmeister, Stefan Fehlandt, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Julian Steckel, Danjulo Ishizaka)
- Spannungen 2005: Johannes Brahms (with Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Veronika Eberle, 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 (Stuttgarter Kammerorchester)
References
- Steckel on the website of the Rostock University of Music and Theatre
- Julian Steckel on Kronberg Akademy
- Julian Steckel on Impresariat Simmenauer
- Preisträger 2010 stehen fest on ARD-Musikwettbewerb
- "Homepage Echo Klassik". Archived from the original on 2012-07-15.
- Bertazzi, Giorgia. "Hochschule für Musik und Theater München - Prof. Julian Steckel übernimmt Violoncelloprofessur". Retrieved 18 May 2020.
External links
- Literature by and about Julian Steckel in the German National Library catalogue
- Interview with the Swiss Classics Portal Classicpoint.ch
- broadcast with and about Julian Steckel at the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, 24 May 2013
- Julian Steckel bei Musik & Theater Saar, retrieved 18 May 2020.
- Personal website
- Werner Theurich: Cello-Verführer Steckel. Zurückhaltung wäre jetzt tödlich on Spiegel Online 2 July 2011
- Interview mit Julian Steckel im VAN Magazin (27 July 2016)
- Julian Steckel discography at Discogs