Joanna Sachryn will join the school in October 2025
Cellist Joanna Sachryn has been appointed associate professor of cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao in Qingdao, China. She will begin in the role in October 2025.
The Polish-born cellist is also a visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai and has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. She also regularly gives masterclasses across Europe, Asia, and South America.
Sachryn is a graduate of the Music Conservatory in Szczecin, Poland and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, where she studied with Gerhard Mantel. She also studied under William Pleeth in London. She has been a prizewinner in several Polish national competitions.
In 1999, Sachryn joined the Cologne Piano Trio and alongside colleagues from the Vienna Philharmonic she formed the Vienna Cello Ensemble 5+1. As a chamber musician, she has also performed regularly with pianists Pablo Amorós and Paul Rivinius.
She has performed on international stages and at festivals including Alte Oper Frankfurt, Musikverein Vienna, London Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, Rheingau Music Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, and Santander Music Festival Spain, among others.
As a soloist she has played with the Korean Chamber Orchestra, Wernigerode Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Regensburg, Württembergische Symphoniker, Oradea State Orchestra, and in China tours of the German Radio Chamber Orchestra.
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