Biography

Céline Eberhardt was born in Germany in 2004. She began taking viola lessons with Lydia Bach at the Stuttgart Music School at the age of eight and was in the preparatory class there from 2018 to 2022. She has also been studying with Prof. Roland Glassl at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts since October 2021, initially as a junior student and since October 2022 as a full student. 

She attended master classes at the Kronberg Academy, with Atar Arad, William Coleman, Erich Krüger, Nimrod Guez, Julia Galic and Eckhard Fischer, among others. 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. 

In recent years, Céline has won several 1^st and 2^nd prizes at the national level in the "Jugend musiziert" competition in the categories viola solo, duo piano and viola, piano chamber music and string quartet. In 2019, she was awarded the highest score in the category viola solo and in 2021 in duo with piano. In 2020, she won the 1^st prize at the "Karel Kunc Competition" in the category piano and a string instrument, in 2021 Céline received the 2^nd prize at the "International Competition The Muse" in Athens and the 3^rd prize at the "International Anton Rubinstein Competition 2022" in the viola solo category. 

She was promoted to chamber music at the Stuttgart Music School in various ensembles (viola quartet, piano quintet, string quartet, piano trio, etc.) and by the German Music Council. In 2022, she was engaged by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as a chamber musician for a concert series as part of the Meisterschüler-Meister project with David Orlowsky and at the Franconian Music Festival with Linus Roth. 

In November 2021, Céline performed as a soloist with the youth symphony orchestra of the Stuttgart Music School in the Liederhalle Stuttgart. From 2018 to 2022, Céline gained orchestral experience as the leader of the viola group in the Stuttgart Young Chamber Orchestra, with whom she toured Japan in 2019, and in the vbw Festival Orchestra of the Festival of Nations in Bad Wörishofen.

In recent years, she has received a number of grants and scholarships, including from the German Music Council, the German Foundation for Music Life, the State Music Council of Baden-Württemberg, the Ruth-Ilse-Lenz Foundation and in 2021 the sponsorship prize of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, which is based on the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival and is associated with an annual scholarship and concert performances. In addition, Céline was accepted as a scholarship holder at Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich in 2022.