Biography

Friederike Luise Arnholdt was born in Germany in 1995. At the age of seven, she received her first cello lessons from the Georgian cello teacher Prof. Eldar Issakadze. From 2009 to 2012, she was a student of Maximilian Hornung, was then accepted as a young student at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and began her regular studies with Prof. Schmidt after graduating from high school in 2013. Since 2020, Friederike has been studying in the Master Specialized Music Performance – Soloist course with Prof. Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts. 

Her training includes master classes with I. Monighetti, T. Svane, N. Gutman, W. Boettcher, J.P. Maintz, Ensemble Modern, D. Ishizaka, C. Bohorquez, L. Fenyö and D. Geringas. She is a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities that take place there. 

The cellist won only 1^st prizes in the solo violoncello category at "Jugend musiziert" and was awarded the special prize of the Bertold Hummel Foundation for the "best interpretation of a classical modern work". She is a multiple prizewinner of the "German Musical Instrument Fund Competition" of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In 2016, after participating in the German Music Competition, Friederike was included in the "Federal Selection of Concerts by Young Artists" and received a scholarship. 

She gives concerts as a chamber musician and soloist at the music festival Gezeitenkonzerte, the Chamber Music Festival in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the International Music Festival Goslar, the Festival Mozartiade, in the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the EXPO Milan in the German Pavilion, the Liszt Academy Budapest, the Nymphenburg Palace and at Villa Vigoni at Lake Como/Italy. 

Since 2007, Friederike has received a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. The foundation has already presented its scholarship holder at numerous foundation events, for example at its traditional summer concert in St. Severin Keitum on Sylt. On the occasion of the 45^th anniversary of the founding of the foundation, to which the former Federal President Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler invited as patron, she performed at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin. As a scholarship holder of the Festival Academy 2016 of the Heidelberg Spring Music Festival, she worked together with Daniel Müller-Schott and Isang Enders. In 2017 and 2018, invitations to the Festival Academy of the Zermatt Music Festival followed with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic. She was also awarded a scholarship by the Landesstiftung Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz in 2018 and she was selected for concerts and projects in the 2019/20 season. 

Friederike is currently playing a cello made by Stefano Scarampella, Mantua around 1900, from the German Musical Instrument Fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.