‘Extraordinary depth and humanity’: 17-year-old cellist Daniel Dorn performs solo Bach

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German-American cellist Daniel Dorn presents a performance of the Allemande from Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello no.2 in D minor, BWV 1008.

The work will feature on Dorn’s upcoming debut album on Evidence Classics, comprising Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello nos. 1, 2 and 3, plus a rarely recorded version of Suite no.2 in Robert Schumann’s arrangement with piano accompaniment, performed with Ji-Hwan Hong.

While the album will be released in May 2027, a digital EP of the original Suite no.2 is out now.

‘Bach’s Cello Suites are works of extraordinary depth and humanity, which continually reveal new dimensions with every performance or listening experience,’ says Dorn. 

Dorn plays a Jacob Stainer cello from 1645. The video was produced by Bernhard Fleischer of BFMI with audio by Michael Fine.

Dorn began his cello studies with Sabine Lauer and later Stanislas Kim. Since 2020 he has been under the artistic guidance of Katharina Troe and has received further artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Clive Greensmith, Guy Johnston, Antonio Meneses, Martti Rousi, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Mischa Maisky and Jan Vogler.

Dorn is a scholarship holder of Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and has received further support from the Neuhardenberg Foundation and Meadowmount School of Music, where he studied for two summers with Hans Jørgen Jensen. He also attended the pre-college programme for highly gifted students at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

In September 2006, he will commence his bachelor’s studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the class of Guy Johnston.