Simon Tetzlaff learned his craft from some of the most distinguished cellists and teachers, and is now offering his passion for music making to a variety of audiences worldwide.

He is the recipient of the Janos Starker Foundation Award of 2024.

In recent years, Simon Tetzlaff performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the ensemble “Frankfurter Solisten” and the Hamburg Camerata, giving his debut in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie in 2020.

As an avid chamber musician, he performed in various chamber music festivals, with musicians such as Rainer Schmidt, Guy Braunstein, Alina Ibragimova, Mikhail Pochekin, Benjamin Beilman and Christian Tetzlaff.

In 2024, he gave his debut at the Rheingau Musikfestival.

Starting this year, he is working as Artistic Director of the Landshut Chamber Music Festival together with violinist Mikhail Pochekin.

Born in 1997 in Frankfurt, Germany, he received piano, music theory and cello lessons in his early childhood. As a pre-college student at the music academy in Frankfurt, Simon attracted attention in various youth competitions and was invited to masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy.

He was a student of Prof. Julian Steckel at the academy in Munich, Prof. Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum Salzburg and recently completed the Artist Diploma Program at USC Thornton in Los Angeles, studying with Prof. Ralph Kirshbaum.

He collected other musical impulses with world-renowned cellists, such as Alban Gerhardt, Gustav Rivinius and Torleif Thedéen.

In the course of his studies he held fellowships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz and PE-Förderungen Mannheim.

Since February 2020 he plays an instrument by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, by courtesy of the Music Instrument Fonds of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.