Andrej van Brakel
Andrej van Brakel (2005) started playing at age four and studied in Maastricht with Gabriel Schwabe and Godfried Hoogeveen, and now studies in Lübeck with Troels Svane. He has taken masterclasses with with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens-Peter Maintz, Gary Hoffman, Tanja Tetzlaff, Jakob Koranyi, Wen-Sinn Yang, and Gabriel Schwabe.
As a laureate of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, he played in the festival’s closing concert and appeared at the Moscow State Philharmonic Society and the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. In 2021 he was a soloist before 6,000 people at Boris Berezovsky’s festival in Elabuga. He also appeared on television, most recently as “Young Hero” on Podium Klassiek.
He Andrej won prizes at the Royal Concertgebouw Competition (2019), the International Vienna Music Competition (2020) and Classic Young Masters (2021). He plays an 1898 Franz Johann Glass cello, generously on loan from the Sinfonima Stiftung.
