Cellist Anouchka Hack (*1996), winner of the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich at the Verbier Festival and the Special Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, has appeared as a soloist with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. Anouchka Hack recently performed Weinberg’s Preludes at the Konzerthaus Dortmund and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. She was a guest chamber musician at the Rheingau Music Festival.
In 2002 Anouchka Hack was awarded the Leyda Ungerer Music Prize. She went on a chamber music tour with Gautier Capuçon to venues such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, with further concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Philharmonie in Paris in 2025. She is currently performing chamber music concerts with Tabea Zimmermann (SWR Festival), Viviane Hagner, Antoine Tamestit and Daniel Müller-Schott. This season Anouchka Hack will also be touring as a chamber musician in Taiwan and South Korea.
Anouchka Hack performs as a duo with her sister Katharina (piano) on concert stages in Germany and Europe, including the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Gasteig Munich, the Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris and the Konzerthaus Dortmund. Since 2021, the sisters have been artistic directors of the meetMUSIC Open Air in Mettingen, which takes place every August. The duo’s first album with works by Dmitri Shostakovich was released by GENUIN classics in 2020 and was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award and the Opus Klassik. Their current album »Alle Menschen werden Schwestern« was released in autumn 2024 in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk on the renowned Berlin Classics label.
Anouchka Hack studied at the renowned Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson until 2024. A prizewinner of the German Musical Instrument Fund, she plays a 1769 Bartolomeo Tassini cello and is a fellow of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
