Alexander Hülshoff, b. 1969, studied cello with Martin Ostertag in Karlsruhe and Lynn Harrell in Los Angeles. He has won numerous awards und has held the post of Professor of cello at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany since 1997. He plays on an old Italian cello made by Giovanni Grancino of Milan in 1691, which was previously owned by the cello virtuoso David Popper.
Hülshoff has performed in Chamber Music concerts with Lynn Harrell, Igor Oistrach, Thomas Brandis, Rainer Kussmaul, Vadim Brodsky, Gil Sharon, Hagai Shaham, Steven Isserlis, Andreas Frölich and other artists.
Amongst other engagements, he has also appeared as a soloist with the Suedwestfunk Radio Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra in Maastricht, the Martinu Chamber Orchestra in Brünn, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Brünn, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra in Ludwigshafen, and the Rheinland Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra in Ludwigshafen and other orchestras.
As a performer, he has toured to Israel, Korea, Great Britain, Canada, Malaysia, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Roumania and Turkey, Brazil and Mexico.
His radio and television productions in Germany (SWR,BR,D-Radio) and in the Netherlands (omroep Limburg, Radio Hilversum), as well as various CD recordings are testimony to the high level of artistic accomplishment in Hülshoff's work (with amphion records - cello and piano works and Brillant classics - Beethoven string quartets, Schubert Forellenquintet, Bach Goldberg Variations, Mendelssohn octet, etc. and with the french pianist Patricia Pagny all the Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano from Beethoven for the Suisse label Novalis).
He has played in famous concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, de Doelen in Rotterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Herkulessaal in Munich. In addition, he is a welcome guest at many international festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen, Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Enescu Festival in Roumania, the Kfar Bum Festival in Israel, the Brahms Festival in Granada as well as the the Moselfestwochen, the Rheinischer Frühling and Rheinisches Musikfest in Germany, the Amati 500 Festival in Maastricht and the Euriade etc.
Celebrating 40 years of the diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, Alexander Hülshoff was invited perform in the Gala Concert in Toronto.
He is the artistic director of the Musiktage Landau and he likes to discover forgotten musical treasures like the chamber music works and cello concerto by Friedrich Gernsheim to whom he dedicated the first Musiktage Landau.