Christoph Heesch is one of the most prom­ising artists of today’s mu­sic scene and im­presses with his so­loist­ic and cham­ber mu­sic skills — mean­while he is cel­eb­rat­ing great suc­cess both na­tion­ally and in­ter­na­tion­ally. The main fo­cus of his artist­ic work is the ex­am­in­a­tion of mu­sic from a styl­ist­ic­ally crit­ic­al per­spect­ive, tak­ing into ac­count the tech­nic­al skills of in­stru­ment­al play­ing com­bined with an ex­cit­ing in­ter­ac­tion with the audi­ence.

Born in Berlin in 1995, the artist began play­ing the cello at the age of six. In the fol­low­ing years he stud­ied at the Ju­li­us Stern In­sti­tute, worked for sev­er­al years with Jens Peter Maintz and at­ten­ded mas­ter classes with David Geringas, Wolfgang Boettcher and Lászlo Fenyö. Today Christoph Heesch stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of the Arts Berlin with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. As solo cel­list of the En­semble Esperanza and the Cham­ber Or­ches­tra Eroica Berlin he com­bines know­ledge of his­tor­ic­ally in­formed per­form­ance prac­tice with mod­ern in­stru­ments.

The artist pays par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to clas­sic­al con­certs, which he would like to open up to a broad audi­ence. The in­nov­at­ive con­certs and oth­er mu­sic me­di­ation formats of the TON­ALi pro­ject of­fer an ideal home for his mu­sic­al and con­cep­tu­al ideas.

Christoph Heesch is a laur­eate of na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al com­pet­i­tions: He was awar­ded at the “Antonio Janigro” com­pet­i­tion in Croa­tia and the in­ter­na­tion­al “Witold-Luto­sławski” com­pet­i­tion as well as at the XIIth Domen­ico Gabrielli Com­pet­i­tion. Christoph Heesch has also been awar­ded the “Mieczysław Weinberg” prize and a spe­cial prize for the best mu­sic me­di­ation at the TONALi15 mu­sic com­pet­i­tion. At the Ger­man Mu­sic Com­pet­i­tion 2016 in Bonn he re­ceived a schol­ar­ship after reach­ing the semi­final and he was semi­final­ist of the Queen Elisa­beth Com­pet­i­tion 2017. 

He holds a schol­ar­ship at the Mu­sikakademie Liecht­en­stein and has been play­ing a cello by Domenicus Montagnana from the Ger­man Mu­sic­al In­stru­ment Fund „Deutsche Stif­tung Mu­sikleben“ since 2017.