Phuket School of Music
presents
Cello & Piano:
A Romantic Evening with Jonathan Weigle & Caspar Frantz
Thursday 24 July 2025 7pm
Phuket School of Music Recital Studio
Programme:
R. Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op. 73
L.V. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 3 in A Major Op. 69
C. Franck: Cello Sonata in A Major
Ticket:
Early Bird: 600 Thb (til 21 July)
Student Discount: 400 Thb
Standard Price: 800 Thb
Additional Event:
Piano Masterclass by Caspar Frantz
25 July 2025
Contact Phuket School of Music for registration
Artists' Profile:
Jonathan Weigle cello
Jonathan Weigle is equally successful as a soloist chamber and orchestra musician on international stages.
He has been principal cellist of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra since 2015 and regularly plays at the same position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and the Orchester de Chambre de Paris. He has also made guest appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
In 2010 he received an award in the cello-piano duo category at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition and in 2013 at the Hanns Eisler Prize for composition and interpretation of contemporary music.
Jonathan Weigle grew up in a family of musicians in Berlin and has been playing the cello since he was five. As a teenager he was already a member and soloist with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg – an experience that significantly shaped his decision to pursue a professional career.
In 2021 Jonathan Weigle was teaching international cello students as part of the Orchestra Academy of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Caspar Frantz piano
Born in 1980 Caspar Frantz received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. Further studies took him to Rostock as a pupil of Matthias Kirschnereit. He studied with Eberhard Feltz at the Hanns Eisler Academy for Music in Berlin. Collaboration with pianists such as Renate Kretschmar-Fischer and Elisabeth Leonskaja as well as masterclasses with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling Maria João Pires and György Kurtag have had a strong impact on his artistic development.
Since his début at the Rheingau Music Festival Caspar Frantz has played in Germany throughout Europe and at numerous festivals. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Kiel Philharmonic Rostock Stralsund the Iasi State Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova Polish Chamber Orchestras and the New Phiharmonic Westphalia.
He was awarded first prize at the German Jugend musiziert and he is also winner of the Mendelssohn award 2006 the Premio Vittorio Gui 2006 and the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2006 (together with the Cellist Julian Arp with whom he has played as a duo since 1996). He held scholarships from the Marie-Luise-Imbusch-Stiftung and the Deutscher Stiftung Musikleben with the Carl-Heinz Illies Award and is a fellow of the Villa Musica and the Horst-Rahe Foundation Rostock.
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