Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (born 5 March 1987 in Zwickau) is a German cellist.Conversation with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker In 2005 she was one of the youngest participants to win first prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, the most important cello competition held every four years in Paris.Marie-Elisabeth Hecker on Medici.tv
Career Hecker is the fifth of eight children of a pastor's family from Kirchberg near Zwickau. Already at the age of five her passion for cello developed. In 1992 she began to study this instrument with Wieland Pörner at the .
In 1999 she won several competitions of Jugend musiziert; in 2001 the first prize and special prize at the international J. J. F. Dotzauer competition in Dresden. From 2001 to 2005 she was taught by Professor Peter Bruns in cello and piano trio as an external pupil of the and since 2005 as a student of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. She participated several times in chamber music courses and master classes.Biography on B-B Trust
Hecker is one of the 23 young instrumentalists who were invited by the Kronberg Academy (Kronberg, Taunus) to work with the masters of their subjects at the Chamber Music Days for two weeks.Marie-Elisabeth Hecker on Kronberg Academy
From the 2009/10 to 2011/12 season, Hecker was an artist in the "Junge Wilde" series at the Theater Dortmund.
On 8 June 2010 she played Schumann's Cello Concerto, Op. 129, accompanied by the Staatskapelle Berlin under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, in the context of a much acclaimedPulsschlag Nr. 12 to 21. June 2010: „Schumann-Fest 2010 übertrifft Erwartungen“ (PDF; 4,1 MB)Schumann-Zwickau.de vom 20. December 2010: Schumann-Jahr war riesiger Erfolg gala concert in the Zwickauer Konzertsaal Neue Welt on the occasion of Robert Schumann's 200th birthday.
Hecker is married to the pianist Martin Helmchen, and mother of three daughters.NW Neue Westfälische, Bielefeld, Artikel vom 17 January 2019 von Thomas Klingebiel: Herkules-Aufgabe für Top-Pianist Martin Helmchen; geprüft am 18. 01. 2019
References
External links David Abrams: Gespräch mit Marie-Elisabeth Hecker vom 6. August 2006 Homepage von Marie-Elisabeth Hecker Generalmanagement von Marie-Elisabeth Hecker Gänsehautmomente mit Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (NDR)