KONSTANTIN PFIZ
cello

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, and David Strange at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Additional teachers were Harvey Shapiro, 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 chamber musician, he was for three years the cellist of the Emperor String Quartet in London and is now a member of the Clemente Piano Trio, with whom he has toured throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA. The trio won Second Prize at the prestigious Munich ARD (German broadcasting network) Competition and toured under "Rising Stars" in 1998 to many of the world’s leading concert halls, including Carnegie Hall. The trio has recorded numerous compact discs for Klassik Edition Nymphenburg.

Since 1997 Pfiz has been the principal cellist of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed as principal cello in the Bergen Symphony Orchestra (Norway), Arctic Festival Orchestra (Norway), Dresden Statskapelle (Germany), European Community Youth Orchestra, and the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, and as a member of the cello section in orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.