Cellist Konstantin Manaev, who has lived in Berlin since 2012, now performs regularly as a soloist throughout Europe. His concert repertoire includes works from the earliest Baroque to the modern era.
Born in Ekaterinburg, he received his first violoncello lessons at the age of seven. He first studied at the Special Music School of the Moscow Conservatory with Kirill Rodin, then at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and at the Musikakademie Basel with Ivan Monighetti, who has contributed greatly to the development of young musicians’ musical personality and power of interpretation.
The impetus for a musical career on an international scale came from a large number of successful competitions. For example, Konstantin Manaev won 1st prize at the Grand Prix of the International Wilkomirski Violoncello Competition in Poznan, Poland, at the 12th Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig. This was followed by a 2nd prize at the 6th ADAM International Violoncello Competition in Christchurch, New Zealand. This was followed by concert performances in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Berlin Philharmonie, in the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin, in the Laeszhalle Hamburg, in the Tonhalle Zurich and in the Auditorio Nacional de Musica de Madrid. As a soloist he has worked with orchestras such as the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford, the Lucerne and Basel Symphony Orchestras, the Sinfonietta Cologne, the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.
From the winter semester 2016/17 Konstantin Manaev will be a lecturer for violoncello at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein Berlin.
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