“Ein Brillanter Dialog, der sprachlos macht” : Frankfurter Neue Presse

Annabel Hauk Annabel Hauk won the 1st prize ‘Wilfried Tachezi Special Prize’ at the Mainardi Competition 2024 at the Mozarteum Salzburg.

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1999 and started playing the cello at the age of five. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston in the class of Prof. Laurence Lesser and is currently studying for her master’s degree at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of Prof. Giovanni Gnocchi. Prior to that, she was a student of Erik Richter and Prof. Istvan Vardai in the advanced class of the Feuermann Conservatory at the Kronberg Academy.
Concert life
Annabel Hauk is Classic FM’s Rising Star 2023 and has performed with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester under Paul Meyer, the Philharmonie Baden Baden, the Trier Philharmonic Orchestra and the I Musici di Parma in Salsomaggiore Terme, among others. In 2022, she performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Philharmonie Bratislava as part of the Holland Music Sessions’ “New Masters on Tour” concert series. That same year, Annabel was a guest at the renowned Kronberg Academy chamber music festival, Chamber Music Connects the World, where she performed with Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff and Jörg Widmann, among others. She performed further chamber music concerts with Alexander Melnikov and Boris Garlitsky at Villa Musica in Rhineland-Palatinate and with Meesun Hong-Coleman at l’Auditori Barcelona.
Annabel has given recitals at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Sandstein Festival and the Rising Stars series of the Pyeong Chang Music Festival in South Korea.
During her time in the USA, Annabel and her Tempest String Quartet won the Honors Competition at the NEC, first prize at the Enkor International Competition and a silver medal at the 4th International Manhattan Music Competition. In 2018, she was invited to the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, New York, where she received lessons from Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping and Merry Peckham, among others, and performed with Itzhak Perlman.
Masterclasses
Annabel has taken part in numerous masterclasses, such as at the Pyeong Chang Music Festival 2017 in South Korea with Hans Jensen and Lluis Claret and at the Kronberg Academy Festival, where she was taught by Lynn Harrell, Gary Hoffman and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. She received further musical influences from Vilde Frang and Yura Lee at Mit Musik Miteinander, Jens Peter Maintz, Bernard Greenhouse, Jerome Pernoo, Reinhard Latzko, Wolfgang Böttcher, Torleif Thedeen, Vladimir Perlin and Joshua Epstein.
Scholarships
Annabel was the recipient of a Presidential Distinction Award (NEC Boston), a Gerd Bucerius Scholarship from the German Foundation for Musical Life (2017-2019), a Willy Robert Pitzer Foundation Scholarship and an Erasmus Society Scholarship.
She is currently supported by So von Pirastro Strings, the Peter Pirazzi Foundation and the German Foundation for Musical Life, which has provided her with the cello with the label ‘Gia. Bapt. Grancino… Milano 169?’ from the German Musical Instrument Fund.
This season Annabel will play duo recitals at the Schumann Society in Frankfurt am Main, at Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and at Jeunesses Musicales in Austria, among other places.