Biography
Jonathan Weigle is equally successful as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician on international stages.
He has been principal cellist of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra since 2015 and regularly plays at the same position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and the Orchester de Chambre de Paris. He has also made guest appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He has always placed an artistic focus on playing chamber music. Parallel to his cello studies with Josef Schwab and Troels Svane at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, he completed chamber music studies with Ralf Gothoni at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.
He is a valued chamber music partner of musicians such as Antje Weithaas, Christian Ihle Hadland and the Armida Quartet and also plays in permanent formations such as the SOTA Piano Trio and the Aperto Piano Quartet.
In 2010 he received an award in the cello-piano duo category at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition and in 2013 at the Hanns Eisler Prize for composition and interpretation of contemporary music.
He has performed as a soloist at the Hundisburg Castle Summer Music Academy with Brahms’ Double Concerto and with the Echo Ensemble for New Music.
Jonathan Weigle grew up in a family of musicians in Berlin and has been playing the cello since he was five. As a teenager, he was already a member and soloist with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg – an experience that significantly shaped his decision to pursue a professional career.
Today, on the other hand, he is committed to promoting the music of children and young people. In 2019 and 2020, master classes and workshops were held at schools as part of the SOTA Music Festival in India and Shenzhen/China.
In 2021 Jonathan Weigle was teaching international cello students as part of the Orchestra Academy of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
During the global pandemic, Weigle organized numerous concerts as far as possible, including a live stream concert in cooperation with Dreamstage.live from the chamber music hall of the Beethoven Haus Bonn.
With pianist Ben Cruchley he played the five sonatas for piano and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven for a virtual audience.
Biography
Jonathan Weigle is equally successful as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician on international stages.
He has been principal cellist of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra since 2015 and regularly plays at the same position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and the Orchester de Chambre de Paris. He has also made guest appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He has always placed an artistic focus on playing chamber music. Parallel to his cello studies with Josef Schwab and Troels Svane at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, he completed chamber music studies with Ralf Gothoni at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.
He is a valued chamber music partner of musicians such as Antje Weithaas, Christian Ihle Hadland and the Armida Quartet and also plays in permanent formations such as the SOTA Piano Trio and the Aperto Piano Quartet.
In 2010 he received an award in the cello-piano duo category at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition and in 2013 at the Hanns Eisler Prize for composition and interpretation of contemporary music.
He has performed as a soloist at the Hundisburg Castle Summer Music Academy with Brahms’ Double Concerto and with the Echo Ensemble for New Music.
Jonathan Weigle grew up in a family of musicians in Berlin and has been playing the cello since he was five. As a teenager, he was already a member and soloist with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg – an experience that significantly shaped his decision to pursue a professional career.
Today, on the other hand, he is committed to promoting the music of children and young people. In 2019 and 2020, master classes and workshops were held at schools as part of the SOTA Music Festival in India and Shenzhen/China.
In 2021 Jonathan Weigle was teaching international cello students as part of the Orchestra Academy of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
During the global pandemic, Weigle organized numerous concerts as far as possible, including a live stream concert in cooperation with Dreamstage.live from the chamber music hall of the Beethoven Haus Bonn.
With pianist Ben Cruchley he played the five sonatas for piano and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven for a virtual audience.