Stephan Heber

Stephan Heber was born in 1977 in Kiel, Germany. At the age of 7 he received his first cello lessons. In 1990 and 1995 he was a finalist and laureate at the “Jugend musiziert” competition. Stephan studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Dimitri Ferschtman and Monique Bartels. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, he followed the master’s degree with Gregor Horsch. He then took classes with Ulrike Schäfer and Guido Schiefen in Cologne.
From 2006 to 2015, Stephan Heber was a cellist with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in Enschede. Since 2009 he has been a permanent member at Cello8ctet Amsterdam (www.cello8ctet.com). In addition, he has been coordinating chamber music with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2015.
As a soloist he performed with the “Jugendsinfonieorchester Lübeck” and the “Bachorchester Ratzeburg”. Among others, he performed the 1st cello concerto by Dimitri Schostakovich with the “Helikon Chamber Orchestra Groningen”, the cello concerto in D by Joseph Hadyn, accompanied by “Camerata Kiel”. In 2013 he played the Roccoco variations with the “Koninklijk Symfonieorkest Cecilia” in Hengelo and Almelo.
Stephan substitutes in various orchestras in the Netherlands and Germany, including the Radio Sinfonie Orkest Keulen (WDR), the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Asko Ensemble Amsterdam and the Ensemble Modern from Frankfurt. With the Philharmonisch Orkest Keulen (the Gürzenich Orchester) he played in the 2009-2011 season as captain and deputy captain.
Concert tours with these orchestras led Stephan to Norway, Iceland, France, Spain and China.
Stephan plays a cello by Haat-Hedlef Uilderks from Lübeck, built in 2004. It is a copy of a Petrus Guarneri from 1739.