Christine Rauh

At the age of 16 she was accepted as a young student in Gerhard Mantel's cello class at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

She also took part in international master classes with Wolfgang Boettcher, Alfred Brendel, Young-Chang Cho, David Geringas, Leonid Gorokhov, Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman [fr], Gerhard Mantel, Arto Noras and Heinrich Schiff.

In her solo concerts, Rauh appears as a soloist with works by Antonín Dvořák, Johannes Brahms,[1] Carl Maria von Weber and Heitor Villa-Lobos[2] Another focus of their repertoire is the French composers of Impressionism such as Camille Saint-Saëns and Maurice Ravel.

Further projects of Rauh were duo performances with Johannes Nies within the framework of the Villa Musica foundation, including works by Rodion Shchedrin, Manuel de Falla and Astor Piazzolla.

She also received a scholarship and Diploma di Merito from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and was Artist in Residence at the Euro Nippon Music Festival 2007 in Japan.