Sophie Luise Hage
violoncello
Career
Sophie Luise Hage was born in Berlin in 1986 and began playing the cello at the age of 5. She later spent several years as a junior student at the “Julius Stern Institute” at the Berlin University of the Arts.
After graduating from high school, Sophie Luise Hage initially studied German and history in Freiburg i. Breisgau. In 2007, she began studying cello with Prof. Peter Hörr at the University of Leipzig, where she also received a scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation "Live Music Now". From 2011 to 2013, Sophie Luise Hage was part of the Opera Academy at the Wiesbaden State Theater. She completed her artistic studies and her parallel pedagogical studies with a diploma in 2013.
Sophie Luise Hage then followed her passion for early music and continued her studies as a baroque cellist at the renowned “Schola Cantorum Basiliensis” with Christophe Coin and Petr Skalka. She completed her master’s degree there with distinction in 2017.
Since then, Sophie Luise Hage has performed regularly as a soloist and in collaboration with renowned ensembles for early and new music at home and abroad (including the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra). Her concert activities have taken her to festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Festival d'Aix en Provence, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and the Leipzig Bach Festival.
Sophie Luise Hage has participated in numerous CD and radio productions, as well as in various theater productions (including Theater Basel and Schauspiel Leipzig).