Claudio Bohórquez, Violoncello
Claudio Bohórquez, descent of Peruvian and Uruguayan ancestors, has been hailed as one of the most
exciting and fascinating musicians of his generation by conductors, audiences, concert presenters and
critics alike. He has performed as a soloist with an impressive range of internationally renowned
orchestras and conductors and played with famous chamber music partners.
Claudio Bohórquez grew up in Germany and currently lives in Berlin, where he also works on a variety
of special projects in the field of the visual and performing arts.
As a student of Boris Pergamenschikow, Claudio Bohórquez achieved success at an early age at
international competitions such as the Tschaikowsky Youth Competition in Moscow and the
Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. This culminated in 2000 with three awards at the first
International Pablo Casals Competition held under the auspices of the Kronberg Academy: Marta
Casals Istomin presented Claudio Bohórquez with first prize, a special award for the best chamber
music, and also the use of Casals? Gofriller cello for a period of two years. He also won first prize at
the International Music Competition in Geneva, an achievement that marked the start of his career as
a soloist. Meanwhile he is a teacher himself: since 2003 he is guest professor at the 'Hanns Eisler'
Academy of Music in Berlin and was appointed as Professor at the Stuttgart Music Academy in
succession of Jean-Guihen Queyras.
Claudio Bohórquez has performed with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, almost all of the German radio orchestras, the Württembergischen
Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the
Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre de Toulouse, the
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and the Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra. In Japan he has appeared with both the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and
the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In the United States he has recently performed concerts with the
Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Renowned conductors with whom Claudio Bohórquez has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Rafael
Frühbeck de Burgos, Jonathan Darlington, Thomas Dausgaard, Christoph Eschenbach, Hans Graf,
Ruben Gazarian, Manfred Honeck, Yakov Kreizberg, Sir Neville Marriner, Eiji Oue, Krzysztof
Penderecki, Leonard Slatkin, Tugan Sokhiev, Lothar Zagrosek and David Zinman.