Claudio Bohórquez

While winning a number of international competitions at an early age, Claudio Bohórquez was further brought to the music world’s attention for receiving the top prize in the first International Casals Competition in Germany in 2000. He also received a special award for chamber music in this competition and, as part of the award, was allowed to perform on Maestro Casals famed Gofriller cello for several years. His previous competitions include the first prize at the Youth Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the International Rostropovich Competition in Paris, the International Cello Competition in Scheveningen, Holland, the Geneva International Music Competition, and the Prix Davidoff at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Mr. Bohórquez has performed with the Orchestre de Paris, Zürich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. In Japan, he has appeared both with the NHK Symphony (including two nationally televised concerts) and the Tokyo Philharmonic. In the United States he has recently appeared with the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Conductors with whom he has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph Eschenbach, Hans Graf, Yakov Kreizberg, Sir Neville Marriner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Slatkin, and David Zinman.
Claudio Bohórquez is of Peruvian and Uruguayan parentage but was born and raised in Germany. He currently lives in Berlin.