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Ella van Poucke

Bach & Breakfast
Tue 5 Nov 09:30 - 10:00
Main Hall
Past event
Tue 5 Nov
09:30 - 10:00
Past event

Start the day with a Cello Suite by Bach

Program

Suite No. 3 in C Major

Performers

Ella van Poucke

Six festival days start the way any day really should start: with a light breakfast and freshly pressed orange juice, a warm croissant and a cappuccino, followed by one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Cello Suites, each one performed by a different cellist. A Biënnale classic, loved by everyone!

Normally the suites are performed by cellists who have not performed on the Biënnale. Specially for the tenth Cello Biënnale, we have asked six ‘veterans’ who have previously graced our mornings at half past nine. 

Breakfast from 08:45

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Ella van Poucke

Ella van Poucke (1994) started playing the cello when she was six years old. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and the Conservatory of Amsterdam, after which she continued her studies with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. From 2016 to 2019, she studied with Gary Hoffman at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels.  She has also received lessons from Steven Isserlis, Menahem Pressler, Mischa Maisky, and the Emerson Quartet. She has won prizes at various national and international competitions. In 2015, she won the first prize at the Isang Yun Cello Competition in Korea and in 2017, Ella won the Grachtenfestival Prize and the Premio Chigiana. Ella has performed as a soloist with major Dutch and international orchestras. She is also an active chamber musician. At the Cello Biënnale in 2012, she gave the premiere of Uljas Pulkkis’ cello concerto. In 2021, she released a CD with Robert Schumann’s complete works for the cello.  Ella van Poucke has been a professor at the Conservatory of Amsterdam since 2022. She plays a Giovanni Paolo Maggini cello from 1620, on loan from an anonymous sponsor.
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