Konstanze von Gutzeit
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Konstanze von Gutzeit (born 8 October 1985) is a German cellist.
Gutzeit was born in Bochum. At the age of 3, she began playing the cello on a converted viola as a student of Margret Wortelmann at the Musikschule Bochum. She received further instruction from Wolfgang Sellner, the solo cellist of the Bochumer Symphoniker, and Professor Wilfried Tachezi in Linz.
In 1998, she began her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Heinrich Schiff. Gutzeit plays an original instrument by Gioffredo Cappa from 1677, which was made available to her by the Schulte-Uentrop Foundation.
Gutzeit made her debut as a soloist with the Pro Musica Orchestra Salzburg at the age of 12. Since then, she has performed with numerous renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder), the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck led by conductors such as Kurt Masur, Marek Janowski, Michael Hofstetter, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Heribert Beissel and Ingo Ingensand.
