Raphaela Gromes
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Emotional range and musical imagination
‘Gromes seizes the opportunity to put her technical command, emotional range and musical imagination on full display…. [Her] commanding presence and vast tonal palette give the impression that she’s leading the orchestra on the adventure of their lives’
Gramophone
Highly virtuosic, passionate and technically brilliant, German cellist Raphaela Gromes captivates audiences with her versatile and effortless playing.
As a concerto soloist, she performs the main cello repertoire alongside, and often in combination with, lesser-known works by women composers, following her long-term research at the Frau und Werk Archive in Frankfurt.
She has been an exclusive artist with Sony Classical since 2016, and has made six recordings on the label, all distinguished by creative programming and an explorative spirit, winning awards from German Record Critics’ Award, Opus Klassik, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and Diapason. Her 2024 release of the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra and Vlodomyr Sirenko marks an important collaboration that began with a performance of solidarity in Kyiv and developed immediately into a deep musical connection. She tours Europe with the orchestra in November 2024.
An advocate of works by female composers, Gromes performed works by 23 outstanding female composers from across nine centuries of music history on her 2023 double album FEMMES. Other Sony albums include Imagination (2021), featuring fairy-tale-themed works; and Romantic Cello Concertos (2020).
