The german born cellist Simone Drescher recorded her debut CD in January 2022 with two cello concertos by Vasks and Nordgren with Sinfonietta Riga in Latvia. In April 2021 she made her concert exam (Prof. Troels Svane / Hanns Eisler School of Music) in the Konzerthaus Berlin as a soloist with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra. With her piano Trio SOLARIS she will perform at Beethovenfest Bonn in September 2022.

Simone Drescher has received numerous awards, most recently a special prize at the International Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann Competition in Berlin. The German Music Council invited her to appear both as a soloist and as a chamber recitalist in its series of concerts promoting young German artists. She was awarded a GWK Young Artist Award in 2012 and since then has been supported by the GWK-Gesellschaft für Westfälische Kulturarbeit.

She was also awarded a scholarship to attend the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim. Simone Drescher has given recitals and appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Baden-Baden Philharmonie, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen and the Cologne Sinfonietta. As a chamber recitalist she has performed in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. Among the festivals where she has frequently been invited to appear are the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the “Young Elite” series of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Usedom Music Festival, the Norfolk Music Festival of Yale University, USA.

Simone Drescher’s repertory includes not only the classics of the cello literature but also rarely performed pieces. She additionally commissions new works from promising young composers.