Cello, Soloist

Gregor Horsch

German · 1962

Gregor Horsch, born in Germany in 1962, has been principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 1997. He studied at the Freiburg University of Music and then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he graduated with honours. Around the end of his studies he won a series of awards: the Pierre Fournier Award in London in 1988, a prize at the Scheveningen International Music Competition in 1989 and the Gaspar Cassadó competition in Florence in 1990. Before joining the Concertgebouw Orchestra he was principal cellist of the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra and of the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague.

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  1. Time’s Echo Live: voices from the past, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Time’s Echo Live: Schoenberg, Weinberg and Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  2. Gregor Horsch, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Time’s Echo Live: Schoenberg, Weinberg and Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  3. Gregor Horsch, Wikipedia Cited in Time’s Echo Live: Schoenberg, Weinberg and Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’. Accessed 7 October 2026.