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Cellist Sebastian Klinger, born in Munich and raised in Spain, is one of the most outstanding soloists and chamber musicians of his generation. He is praised by the international press for his warm quality of sound and the intensity of his expression, as well as his flawless technique and superb musicality.

As prize winner of numerous competitions at an early age, today Sebastian Klinger plays internationally as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbruecken Kaiserslautern etc. He has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Antoni Wit, Mario Venzago, Joseph Bastian, Daniel Cohen, Simon Gaudenz, Pedro Halffter, Antony Hermus, Oksana Lyniv, Christoph Poppen, Markus Poschner, Michael Sanderling, Shiyeon Sung, Constantin Trinks, Joshua Weilerstein and Yip Wing-sie.

With his solo programmes and in top-class chamber music line-ups together with, among others, Kit Armstrong, Yuri Bashmet, Lisa Batiashvili, Milana Chernyavska, Veronika Eberle, Julia Fischer, Vilde Frang, Christian Gerhaher, Kirill Gerstein, Boris Giltburg, Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Lang Lang, François Leleux, Alexander Lonquich, Yo-Yo Ma, Lena Neudauer, Alice Sara Ott, Enrico Pace, Emmanuel Pahud, Gil Shaham, Marianna Shirinyan, Baiba Skride, Antoine Tamestit, Alexandre Tharaud and Jörg Widmann he has played at the most important festivals as well as in major music centres in Europe and the US. His discography, for which he already received a “Diapason d’Or” (Bach cello suites), includes solo works, chamber music and orchestra repertoire with the labels OehmsClassics, Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon.

Sebastian Klinger was principal cellist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for eleven years before accepting a cello professorship at the Hamburg University of Music in 2015. Since the 2022/23 season, he has resumed his old position in the BRSO – in addition to his own concert and teaching activities.

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