Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is a German cellist, born in Zwickau on 5 March 1987, the fifth of eight children of a pastor's family from Kirchberg near Zwickau. She began the cello in 1992 with Wieland Pörner at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau, then studied from 2001 to 2005 with Peter Bruns as an external pupil of the Carl Maria von Weber music school in Dresden, before continuing her studies at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

After several Jugend musiziert prizes and first prize at the Dotzauer Competition in Dresden (2001), she made her international breakthrough in 2005 when, as one of the youngest participants, she won first prize at the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris. She was invited to the Kronberg Academy Chamber Music Days and has appeared with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, with whom she played Schumann's Cello Concerto in Zwickau in 2010 for the composer's 200th anniversary. She is also a sought-after chamber musician.

She is married to the pianist Martin Helmchen, her regular duo partner. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
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Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio

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