Canadian cellist Bruno Tobon assumes the role
The Netherlands Philharmonic has appointed Canadian cellist Bruno Tobon as its principal cello. Tobon has previously served in the orchestra as guest principal cello, as well as with Phion Orchestra and Sinfonia Rotterdam.
Commenting on his appointment, Tobon told The Strad: ’I am grateful to officially join the Netherlands Philharmonic as a tenured member in the principal cello position. It has been a most pleasurable musical journey and continues to be so!’
Tobon was a prizewinner of the MSO Manulife Competition 2016, the International Stepping Stone Canadian Music Competition 2017, the Prix d’Europe 2023, the Amsterdam Biennale Competition 2024.
He has performed in numerous concert halls across Canada, the US, Europe, UK and South America and collaborated with artists such as Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jac van Steen, Sivan Magen, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Giora Schmidt, Jinjoo Cho, Timothy Chooi, Barry Shiffman, Glen Montgomery, Peter Wiley, among others.
Tobon is a graduate of the Montreal Conservatoire of Music and spent six years studying in the class of Denis Brott. He was appointed professor of cello at the conservatoire’s pre-college division in 2019 and has been on the artist roster of the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto.
Additionally, Tobon holds a master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague, in the class of Michel Strauss and Jan Ype Nota. He has also played in masterclasses for Johannes Moser, Steven Isserlis, Jean Guihen Queyras, Alisa Weilerstein and Mischa Maisky. He is an alum of the 2017 New York String Seminar Orchestra and has been mentored by cellists Julie Trudeau and Bryan Epperson.
He is a recipient of support from the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation.
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