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Johannes Krebs was born in Goslar, Germany in 1974. He is today one of the most interesting and multifaceted musicians of his generation.

Mr. Krebs studied with Frans Helmerson, Reinhard Latzko, Friedrich Jürgen Sellheim and Klaus Heitz in Hanover, Madrid, Basilea and Cologne. He participated in masterclasses with Boris Pergamenschikow, Bernhard Greenhouse, Wolfgang Böttcher, Mario Brunello and Yehudi Menuhin. The german cellist has won numerous prices and awards at competitions in Germany, Austria, England and the USA.

Over the last decade, Krebs has developed an extensive career as a soloist, chamber musician and much sought after teacher.

As soloist with orchestras he has performed under the baton of conductors like Ingo Metzmacher, Markus Poschner, Marko Letonja, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas Milton, Florian Krumpöck, Thomas Klug and Wolfgang Schmidt. With the Hanover Piano Trio he has been appearing in concerts and recitals all over Europe and South America.

In 1999 Krebs made the world premiere recording of the piece TROVA by the spanish composer Enrique Granados for SONY. Later he has recorded many of the standard cello concertos by Haydn, Boccherini, Dvořák, Schumann, Bruch and Tchaikovsky. As a chamber musician he recorded Beethoven, Reger, Schnittke, Penderecki, Weinberg and Schubert string trios. Also he recorded Dvořák, Brahms, Mayer and Shostakovich Piano Trios, Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms Piano Quartets and Janáček String Quartets.

Mr. Krebs was invited for radio and tv-productions in Germany (NDR) and Spain (Tele5, Radio nacional, Canal+, Radio classico).

Krebs served as assistant Principal cellist at the Hamburg State Opera from 2002-2006 and as Principal cellist of the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006–2019.

He taught at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen from 2009–2020. In October 2019 he was appointed Professor at the Kunstuniversität in Graz. He offers masterclasses in Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy, and Spain and coaches regularly the cello sections of German youth orchestras. He was invited as a guest professor at the Music Academy in Krakow, Poland, and in Gent, Belgium.

Recently he has played concertos of the standard repertoire as well as extraordinary concertos by Martinu, Tüür, Sallinen and Gulda.

In 2015 he served as judge in the Tonali Cello Competition and was appointed Artistic Director of the Musikfest Goslar.

Krebs plays a marvellous cello by Carlo Antonio Testore, Milano 1746.