Constantin Paul Siepermann

Biography

Constantin Siepermann started his first cello lessons at the age of five with Frédérique Labbow. Two years later he joined the class of Prof. Catalin Ilea, who taught him till 2019, when Constantin left the prestigious Julius-Stern-Institute of the University of the Arts Berlin to continue his studies at the Music Academy Freiburg, where he is currently pursuing his B. A. with Prof. Jean-Guihen Queyras.  

An alumnus of the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Music College, he has been awarded numerous scholarships by the International Academy of Music for the Promotion of Young German Talents, the Kronberg-Academy and the Richard-Wagner-Society. Further musical impulses come through regular master classes with – among others - David Geringas, Reinhard Latzko or Steven Isserlis.  

Constantin has been awarded the 1st prize in the „Violoncello Solo“-category of the 2016-federal edition of the German Jugend Musiziert-competition. The same year saw him also winning the WESPE-Special Award of the German Music Council for the best interpretation of Paul Hindemith’s Solo Sonata. He is also a laureate of the Young Talents’ Competition of the Baltic Music Festival (2016), the Dussmann Competition Berlin (2014 & 2017) and the Napolinova Competition (2020).

Constantin Siepermann appears both as a soloist and a chamber musician as regularly on various European stages and festivals like the Amati Festival Maastricht 2013 & 2018, the International Holland Music Summer 2016 & 2019 (TIHMS), the Young Talents’ Day of the Konzerthaus Berlin 2017, the Bayreuth Festival 2018, the Berlin Philharmonie’s Cello-Day 2019, Young Euro Classics 2019 (conducted by Christoph Eschenbach), Usedom Classic Summer 2018, 2019, 2020 etc.

He plays a cello by Riccardo Antoniazzi (Cremona 1890), offered to him through a private sponsorship.