Cello
Biography:
Friedrich Gauwerky was born in Hamburg. He made his debut at the age of twelve and received the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Prize at the age of seventeen. He attended Siegfried Palm's cello class, and later became his assistant, and taught at the Cologne University of Music and Dance from 1978, as well as regularly attending the Darmstadt Summer Courses.
Gauwerky was first cellist of the Frankfurt Ensemble Modern and the Australian Elision Ensemble. Worldwide concert activity as a soloist, as a chamber musician and as a soloist with symphony orchestras, radio and television productions in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia, LP and CD productions (including Deutsche Grammophon, Ricordi, Edition M. F. Bauer, ABC Classics) made him internationally known.
Teaching led him to various music academies, e.g. to the Cologne University of Music and Dance, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the University of California and the University of Adelaide.
Friedrich Gauwerky does not belong to any school or movement. As a free spirit, he knows no national preferences and feels just as at home in England, China, America or Australia as in Cologne, where he lives. Although a masterful interpreter of works by newcomplexity, his extensive repertoire includes countless works of modern and contemporary music as well as compositions from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras: Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Brahms and Reger.
Albums:
Third Attack – Music for Flutes and Strings
Winter Night Music – Music for Violoncello and Piano:
