Cellist Isang Enders has excelled himself as a musician of new concepts and a constant search for clues, which he continues to demonstrate with his particularly wide repertoire. With his early release of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cellosuites on CD and soundtrack, the FAZ will be his “excellent technical skills and early insight,” which will be described as an “interpretation that can be measured with the best.” The BBC Music magazine particularly praises him: “[…]he reconciles the seemingly irreconcilable: virtuosity, good touch, knowledge and originality. It’s a fascinating interpretation of what is neither willful, nor does it ever retreat into lifeless purism.” With the Bach suites, Isang Enders traveled to many large and small places. That’s how he was at the Bach Festival in Montreal, Melbourne, the Eater and Cologne Philharmonic, but also in Aschaffenburg and Malta.

Meanwhile, Isang Enders is concerting around the globe, putting the breadth of his repertoire not only socialist, but also chamber music at the forefront. He played the cello concerto of Unsuk Chin in Stavanger, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France in Paris, the Opera City Hall in Tokyo and also in Sao Paolo. Last time he was involved in the pre-show of Charlotte Bray’s Triple Concerto with the Philharmonic Orchestra in England and his colleagues from the Sitkovetsky Trio, whose membership he’s been for three years.

An Asian tournament featuring Czech Philharmonic and Dvorak Cello Concerto, as well as his guest appearances in Hong Kong, the New York Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall in London and the prestigious Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Isang Enders will regularly return to the Heidelberger Spring, the Rheingau Music Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival, and will perform concerts in Hong Kong with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, the Cologne Philharmonic with Igor Levit and Anna Prohaska, Chamber concerts in South America and a guest performance in Italy with the Prague Radio Orchestra, as well as a recital with Ragna Schirmer at the Mozartfest in Würzburg and a Bach project with the cembalist Mahan Esfahani in Malta.

Isang Enders came to enjoy great leaders and chamber music partners on important stages. He worked with Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Whun Chung or Eliahu Inbal and was a soloist at the Vienna Music Association, the Prager Rudolphin and the Berlin Concert Hall, as well as at the major festivals of Schleswig-Holstein, Paris and Marlboro. Especially Asia has a growing importance for him, making guest appearances at orchestras in Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan every season. In this way, Isang Enders, with great support from composer Unsuk Chin, also engaged in the introduction of contemporary repertoire in Asian concert halls and gave the premiere performances of the cello concerts of Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslavski and Bruno Mantovani in Korea, where he’s a regular guest at the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. With Peter Eötvös’ concerto, Isang Enders will also make his debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo next year.

As a special inspiration, he felt the long-standing collaboration with pianist Igor Levit… …with Isang Enders at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenegger, the Cologne Philharmonic or the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Together, they are artists of the first hour of the International Shostakovich Festival in Gorish.

Isang Enders connects a musical partnership with outstanding musicians, with whom he regularly performs on stage in recitals. With Sunwook Kim, Severin of Eckardstein, Sunwoo Yekwon or Veronika Eberle, Ning Feng and Volker Jacobsen.

Recording is a special passion of Isang Enders. He published his Bach Suites, as well as works by Schumann and Isang Yun, with the BerlinClassics label. The latest recording with works by Debussy, Messiaen and Boulanger appears as Vox Humana in the spring of 2020. At OEHMS Classic, his live performance came out of the Old Frankfurt Opera of Strauss’ Don Quixote with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle, and with the Sitkovetsky Trio, a Beethoven piano trio and works by Saint-Seens and Ravel will appear on the label BIS.