is the cellist of the Fauré Quartet and Professor of violoncello at the Berlin University of the Arts.
With the same line-up since its foundation 26 years ago, the Fauré Quartet is one of the most successful chamber music formations internationally. The "Quartet in Residence" of the Karlsruhe University of Music is booked for tours and and festivals all over the world and has performed at venues such as the Musikverein Vienna, Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam etc. Recordings have been released on the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (Mozart / Brahms / Mendelssohn), on SONY (Strauss and Mahler) and on Berlin Classics (Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov / currently: Fauré). Among the more than two awards and prizes the Fauré Quartet has received include the Brahms Prize, the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize, the German Record Critics' Record Critics' Award and two ECHO-Klassik awards.