Gabriel Schwabe

Cellist Gabriel Schwabe has been a fast-rising star of his instrument, earning critical comparisons to such greats of the past as Emanuel Feuermann. In a competition named for Feuermann, a Schwabe win touched off the young player's impressive run of contest victories. Schwabe was born in Berlin in 1988; his background is German and Spanish. His mother was a piano teacher, and he absorbed a great deal of music in her studio when students came for lessons and soon took up the piano himself. He later switched to the violin and was finally drawn to the cello, enrolling at the Uni...