Konstantin Heidrich

Konstantin Heidrich is the cellist of the Faure Quartett

and holds a professorship for cello at Universität der Künste Berlin in Germany. Concerts as soloist brought him to work with renown orchestras and conductors such as Andrea Marcon or Kristjan Järvi. He worked as principle cellist in Rundfunksinfonie-Orchester Berlin and Kammerakademie Potsdam. His students are international prize winners. Konstantin Heidrich gives master classes in Germany, Norway, Singapur, Italy and Brazil.

The Faure Quartett

is the main topic in Konstantin Heidrich’s musical life. With the same and founding personnel since almost 14 years this piano quartet is ”the leading piano quartet of today“ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The Faure Quartett performs in Europe, Asia, North-America and Latin America and won several international prizes. They played in all the important German venues and on all renown festivals. The group is ”Ensemble in Residence“ at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. The members are Artistic Directors of a festival on the Northeast German island of Rügen. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft released several recordings with Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and a Popsongs album. The quartet´s recordings have won twice the prestigious ECHO-Klassik.