Biography

Anouk-Minou Toth was born in 2009 on La Palma, Canary Islands, into a German-Swiss-Hungarian family. She initially started playing the violin before switching to the cello at the age of six. Currently, she is a pre-college student of Danjulo Ishizaka at the Julius-Stern-Institute JSI in Berlin.

She receives important artistic guidance from Antonio Meneses, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Wen-Sinn Yang, and Conradin Brotbeck. Additionally, she is a scholarship holder at the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and regularly participates in the academy’s intensive weeks and activities.

At the age of seven, she became the youngest participant to win first prize at the “International Rising Star Competition,” performing at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. She has since earned further first prizes at the “Swiss Youth Music Competition” as well as the German competition “Jugend Musiziert” in the categories of cello solo, duo, and piano trio. As a trio, they were invited to the International Chamber Music Festival in Mantua, Italy, where they performed at the Teatro Bibiena and Palazzo Ducale. In a duo with her sister Manoush, Anouk-Minou won the WDR Classical Prize, with their performance broadcast on WDR. She is a laureate of the “International Anton Rubinstein Competition” and has won first prizes at the “International Luigi Cerritelli Competition,” the “Young Artist Award,” and the “International Dotzauer Competition for Young Cellists.”

Anouk-Minou made her orchestral debut on her tenth birthday with the Budweis Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has performed as a soloist with the North German Philharmonic as part of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Fiesole University Orchestra in Italy, the Lyra Chamber Orchestra in Vienna, and the Heidelberg Philharmonic at the Mozart Festival in the Rococo Hall of Schwetzingen Palace. In 2024, she will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with her siblings Anatol and Manoush alongside the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie.

Anouk-Minou regularly performs with her siblings at festivals such as the Mantua Chamber Music Festival, the Baroque Festival Gstaad, Murten Classics, Chios Music Festival, at the University of the Arts concert hall in Berlin, the Thun Castle Concerts, the Steinway Piano Gallery in Bern, the Menuhin Forum Bern, the Festival de Paradis in France, the Rococo Theater at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, the St. Severin Church on Sylt, among others. She also participates in benefit concerts, such as for Medico International at the memorial concert for Carl Lutz.

Anouk-Minou is a scholarship holder of the Lyra Foundation, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, and the German Foundation for Musical Life, which provides her with a Lockey Hill cello from 1790.