Cellist Konstantin Pfiz is one of the most accomplished cellists of his generation. His principal teachers were Georg Faust, solo cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, David Strange at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Harvey Shapiro, Juilliard School of Music, New York. Additional teachers were David Geringas, Paul Tortelier, Heinrich Schiff and Daniel Shafran. Pfiz won the Schumann Prize in London and First Prize in the German National Music Competition. He has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Bremen Philharmonic and Mahler Chamber Orchestra among many others.
As a passionate chamber musician, he was for three years the cellist of the Emperor String Quartet in London and is a member of the Clemente Piano Trio since 1994, with whom he has toured throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA. The trio won Second Prize at the prestigious Munich ARD Competition and toured under "Rising Stars" to many of the world’s leading concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York. The trio has recorded numerous Cds for Klassik Edition Nymphenburg.
Konstantin Pfiz belongs to the founding members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed as principal cello in the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, European Community Youth Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Arctic Festival Orchestra, Statskapelle Dresden, Münchner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker and Philharmonia Orchester London under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Bernard Haitink and Mstislav Rostropovich, and as a member of the cello section in orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA.
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