Elena Gröger

violoncello

The musician was born in 2004 in Dießen am Ammersee near Munich and discovered the cello at the age of 4. She studied with Prof. Stephan Haack (Munich Philharmonic) and Hanno Simons (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra). She won fifteen 1. prizes at “Jugend Musiziert” competitions (solo and chamber music) and made her debut at the age of 15 with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto.

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After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Music with honors in June 2024, the cellist continued her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) under Prof. Thomas Grossenbacher (former principal cellist of the Tonhalle Zurich) as part of her master’s program. In 2025, she expanded her knowledge during a semester abroad at the Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan under Prof. Matteo Ronchini. She has taken master classes with Mischa Maisky, Daniel Müller-Schott, Claudio Bohorquez, Natalie Clein, Paolo Bonomini, Lionel Cottet and Thomas Demenga.

Elena Gröger has extensive orchestral experience, including the Bavarian State Opera’s youth orchestra Attacca (principal position and orchestra committee member), the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra (associate principal), the Vbw Festival Orchestra (associate principal), the Sinfonietta ZHdK (part-time pricipal), and the OSCoM Orchestra Sinfonica del Conservatorio Milano (principal position) under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Fabio Luisi. She has performed with Alice Sara Ott, Rudolf Buchbinder, Igor Levit, David Garrett, Nemanja Radulovic, and Fazil Say. 

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The cellist is a scholarship recipient of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Switzerland Foundation, the Geert and Lore Blanken-Schlemper Foundation, and the Schuler Foundation. In 2025, she received the Cultural Award from the Landsberg am Lech district. Elena Gröger has performed as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Portugal.