Curriculum Vitae Cecilia Sipos
Touching people emotionally, communicating without words: those are the goals of the baroque cellist Cecilia Sipos.
To further pursue her passion for chamber music, Sipos regularly performs with various ensembles and is a founding member of the „Lombardini Quartett“, the piano trio „Ensemble Trisonante“ and the baroque cello quartet „Capella St. Cecilia“. She has performed at many festivals like Europäische Wochen Passau, ImpulsTanz Vienna, Styriarte Graz, Sommerfestival Grafenegg and the Jewish Festival in Budapest, and given concerts in several venues in Europe, Japan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijdan and Georgia. Her first solo album „contemplation“ was released on september 9th, 2021. It contains works of dall’Abaco, Supriano, Telemann, Bach and Biber, all played on the baroque cello. |
Her openness and curiosity also lead her to cross-genre projects. For example, her collaboration with the poet Semier Insayif, „Mondasche“, a book-and-CD-bundle, was published by Klever-Verlag in 2019.
In 2011, she played Dvorak’s cello concerto with the Bacãu Philharmonic.
Cecilia Sipos was engaged at the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra (2003–2004) and the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich, Austria (2005–2019), working among others with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Philipp Jordan, Michal Jurowsky and Michael Schonwandt.
Now, as a freelance baroque cellist, she frequently works with the Wiener Akademie (Martin Haselböck), L’Orfeo Barockorchester (Michi Gaigg), Concerto Stella Matutina, Haydn Philharmonie and Bach Consort Vienna.
She studied at the renowned music universities of Vienna, Graz and Linz, with respected personalities like Angelica May, Rudolf Leopold, Martin Hornstein and Claire Pottinger-Schmidt. She graduaeted with honors in violoncello (“Magister of Arts” in 2005)
and in baroque cello and historical performance ("Master of Arts" in 2016).
Cecilia Sipos won the first prize at the Auer Akademie Competition and the special prize at the Friss Antal Cello Competition in Hungary. She was awarded scholarships from the Kiwanis Club and the Forum Hungaricum and was honoured by the City of Graz with the Karl Böhm Award.
Cecilia strives to perform as close as possible to the audience and make her concerts an intimate experience. With this intention she founded „Mein Konzert“ (www.meinkonzert.org) to organize private house concerts in the Vienna metropolitan area.
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In 2011, she played Dvorak’s cello concerto with the Bacãu Philharmonic.
Cecilia Sipos was engaged at the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra (2003–2004) and the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich, Austria (2005–2019), working among others with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Philipp Jordan, Michal Jurowsky and Michael Schonwandt.
Now, as a freelance baroque cellist, she frequently works with the Wiener Akademie (Martin Haselböck), L’Orfeo Barockorchester (Michi Gaigg), Concerto Stella Matutina, Haydn Philharmonie and Bach Consort Vienna.
She studied at the renowned music universities of Vienna, Graz and Linz, with respected personalities like Angelica May, Rudolf Leopold, Martin Hornstein and Claire Pottinger-Schmidt. She graduaeted with honors in violoncello (“Magister of Arts” in 2005)
and in baroque cello and historical performance ("Master of Arts" in 2016).
Cecilia Sipos won the first prize at the Auer Akademie Competition and the special prize at the Friss Antal Cello Competition in Hungary. She was awarded scholarships from the Kiwanis Club and the Forum Hungaricum and was honoured by the City of Graz with the Karl Böhm Award.
Cecilia strives to perform as close as possible to the audience and make her concerts an intimate experience. With this intention she founded „Mein Konzert“ (www.meinkonzert.org) to organize private house concerts in the Vienna metropolitan area.
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