Jakob Christoph Kuchenbuch
German cellist, won first prize in the German national “Jugend musiziert” competition, the X Kazimierz Wiłkomirki International Youth Cello Competition in Poznán, and the Elise-Meyer-Wettbewerb in Hamburg. He has received scholarships from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, PE-Förderungen für Studierende der Musik Mannheim, Yehudi Menuhin “Live Music Now”, and the state of Thuringia. As a soloist and chamber musician, Jakob has performed in “Lunchkonzerte in der Berliner Philharmonie,” at the Victoria Festival of the Arts in Malta, in “Brandenburg Summer Concerts” and in masterclasses led by Alban Gerhardt, Stephan Forck and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. For five years, Jakob studied with Tim Stolzenburg in Weimar, and he currently pursues his bachelor’s degree with Bernhard Gmelin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.