Thomas Kaufmann has a multifaceted international career. His work as a soloist, chamber musician and principal cellist with various European ensembles has led to appearances at the most important festivals and concert halls in Europe, as well as in North, Central and South America, Australia, Africa, Japan and India.
For more than a decade, Thomas Kaufmann has been the cellist of Trio Imàge, winning an Echo Klassik Award in 2014 for its recording of Argentine-German composer Mauricio Kagel’s complete piano trios.
Thomas Kaufmann has been principal cellist with Camerata Bern since 2013. The ensemble is renowned for its performances of Baroque music and regularly gives historically informed concerts on period instruments with well-known musicians such as Enrico Onofri, Rachel Podger and Amandine Beyer.
From 2014 to 2016 Thomas Kaufmann was professor of cello at the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock. Since 2018 he has travelled regularly to Havana as a lecturer on the postgraduate course at the Cuban-European Youth Academy.
Thomas Kaufmann was born in Graz and studied with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and with Eberhard Feltz in Berlin. Thomas Kaufmann feels a particularly close connection to the music of Schubert and Ravel, as well as the Italian Baroque.
