Marie-Elisabeth Hecker was born in 1987 in Zwickau, Germany. She began her study of the cello at age five at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in her native city. Since 2001, she has been studying with Peter Bruns at the Carl-Maria von Weber Conservatory in Dresden as well as in Leipzig at the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Conservatory. Ms. Hecker has played in masterclasses for Steven Isserlis, Leonid Gorokhov, Anner Bylsma, Maria Kliegel and others. The recipient of many prizes and distinctions, she has won first place in the International Dotzauer Competition in Dresden (2001) and two years later the first place in the competition in Kloster Haydau. In 2004 she was affiliated in the „Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“ and in the following year she was first prize winner 2005 in the International Rostropovich Competition in Paris. Ms. Hecker has performed in London, Cannes, New York and Paris (Théâtre de Champs-Elysée together with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and John Nelson). There are intended concerts for 2006/2007 within in the Festival de Paris (Louvre, Musée d’Orsay), New York, Illinois (Mozart Festival), Chicago, Manchester (Cello Festival), Lissboa, Kiev and Petersburg (together with the Petersburg Symphony Orchestra). In 2004, Ms. Hecker made a recording of the celebrated Kodàly Sonata in Berlin. She is playing a „Bajoni“ Cello that is on loan from the Lösch Family. Since 2006 Maire-Elisabeth Hecker is „student at the Kronberg Academy“.