Julian Steckel - About

I am deeply grateful and feel very much honoured to be chosen for a BBT Fellowship. In these days of thousand and one competitions, BBT stands as an exception because it really cares for its candidates in a way which I have never experienced before. The foundation’s support enables me to think further than I could do until now and helps to make some of my dreams become real – it gives me new ideas, new inspiration and artistic freedom.

Long is the list of world-class orchestras, conductors and fellow instrumentalists with whom German cellist Julian Steckel performs, and for him these experiences and encounters are the natural result of organic growth, rather than any external pressure. “His career is a development that tends to happen when a musician of his ability goes through life with an open mind. When Julian plays, the music is in safe hands. You listen for his discoveries and what the music, through him, is trying to tell you” (VAN Magazine). Julian sees his talent and his musical upbringing as a gift and his mentors and teachers responsible for the rest – he is a teacher now himself in Munich – and is also passionately committed to chamber music as a source of discovery, inspiration and communication.

Julian’s BBT Fellowship supported his second recording, an album of cello concertos by Korngold, Bloch and Goldschmidt on the Avi Music label, and also brought him to London for a special showcase concert.

Julian was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2007 and 2011.

For a current biography please visit juliansteckel.com or gerber-artists.de

Photographs by Marco Borggreve