“Hugely impressive and refreshingly straightforward”     The Guardian
“fresh-faced, full of vitality…”                                                           The Strad

Gabriel Schwabe is a laureate of three of the world‘s most prestigious cello competitions:
the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin, the Concours Rostropovich in Paris and the
Pierre Fournier Award in London. As a soloist he has worked with important orchestras
such as the London Philharmonia, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the NDR Radio
Philharmonic, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the DSO Berlin, the Malmö and Norrköping
Symphony Orchestras and the NCPA Orchestra Beijing with conductors such as Marek
Janowski, Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Dennis Russell-Davies, Cornelius Meister, Giancarlo
Guerrero, Michael Sanderling and Marc Soustrot.

In chamber music, Gabriel Schwabe regularly performs with artists such as Isabelle Faust,
Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Kirill Gerstein and Enrico Pace. In 2010 he gave his recital
debut at London’s Wigmore Hall. He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Jerusalem
Chamber Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Amsterdam Biennale and Schleswig-Holstein
Music Festival.

Since 2015, he has been an exclusive recording artist with record label Naxos. His debut
CD (Brahms Sonatas and Songs with pianist Nicholas Rimmer) was released the same
year. Releases with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Marc Soustrot, the Royal
Northern Sinfonia under Lars Vogt and the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin under
Antoni Wit followed to great critical acclaim.

Gabriel Schwabe was born in Berlin to German-Spanish parents. He studied with Catalin
Ilea at the University of Arts in Berlin and with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy
and recieved further stimulus from Janos Starker, Gary Hoffmann and Gidon Kremer.

He is a cello professor at the HfMT Cologne and the Conservatorium Maastricht. He is
married to violinist Hellen Weiß and plays a cello by Giuseppe Guarneri (Cremona,1695).