Catarina Koppitz

Catarina Koppitz was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1995 and began taking cello lessons with Professor Andrej Michalczyk at the age of six. After studying with Professor Paulo Gaio Lima at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon from 2013 to 2016, she joined Professor Gregor Horsch's class at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf in 2016, where she completed her bachelor's degree in 2019.

She received important musical inspiration in masterclasses with Wen-Sinn Yang, Anner Bylsma, Xavier Gagnepain, Maria de Macedo, Márcio Carneiro, Filipe Quaresma, Johannes Moser, Amit Peled and others.

She has played in various youth orchestras, such as the Gustav Mahler Academy (2018), the European Union Youth Orchestra (2018/2020), the Moritzburg Festival Academy (2019), the Pacific Music Festival (2017) and the Cuban-European Youth Academy (2018).From the 2019/20 season onwards, Catarina was an academician with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, during which time she continued her master's studies with Professor Gregor Horsch at the RSH in Düsseldorf. She was a scholarship holder of Live Music Now (2017-2021) and received the Germany Scholarship. She gained orchestral experience with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra.

Catarina Koppitz has appeared several times as a soloist with the orchestra in Lisbon and also had the opportunity to perform Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in Romania in January 2020.

Since the 2021/22 season, Catarina Koppitz has been a permanent member of the cello section of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.