Biography

Michael Wehrmeyer was born in Germany in 2002. He began playing the cello with Sabine Andert in Berlin at the age of five. At the age of 13, he went to the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg and began his junior studies with Prof. Hyun-Jung Berger. Currently, he studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.

Michael gained further inspiration from Danjulo Ishizaka, Julius Berger, Ivan Monighetti, Kian Soltani, Thomas Grossenbacher and Troels Svane, among others. He is a scholarship holder of the Liechtenstein Music Academy and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities that take place there.

The list of prizes and awards is long. Michael has won multiple prizes in the national competition “Jugend musiziert”. In 2014 and 2018 he won 1^st prizes in the duo and solo categories as well as other special prizes. The “Music Prize of the City of Regensburg” followed in 2019, and in August 2023 he received the scholarship from the German Music Competition and was thus included in the federal selection of “Concerts by Young Artists” for the 24/25 concert season.

Michael's repertoire includes works from the Baroque to the modern era. He performs in changing ensembles both as chamber music and as a soloist.

After becoming a prizewinner of the German Musical Instrument Fund in 2014, he plays a valuable cello by Anton Posch, Vienna 17, a trust from the Munich family.