Pauline Stephan, born in Unna in Germany, comes from a family of musicians and received her first piano lessons at the age of five. Two years later, she discovered her love for the cello and then took lessons at the Dortmund Music School for several years.
During this time she won prizes in various competitions such as Jugend musiziert and the Lions Club International Music Competition before Prof. Matias de Oliveira took notice of her and taught her in the following years. After graduating from high school, she then studied in his class at the Musikhochschule Münster, where she passed her exams for the artistic and pedagogical Bachelor of Music in 2020 and 2021 with the grade very good.
During these first years of study she also received important artistic impulses from Kira Kraftzoff, Arthur Hornig, Felicitas Stephan, Prof. Marcio Caneiro, Prof. Jan Ickert, Prof. Gabriel Schwabe and Prof. Fabio Presgrave.
Then, in 2021, she began a master’s course in chamber music at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica di Torino with pianist Antonio Valentino (Trio Debussy) and since then she has been studying simultaneously in the cello class of Luca Magariello (principal cellist Orchestra of Italian Switzerland), first at the Milano Music Master School and, since 2022, at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo.
Already since 2019 Pauline Stephan is on the road both in orchestral projects such as at the Theater Münster or with an international chamber orchestra in Switzerland, but also as a soloist with chamber orchestras and especially with her own solo chamber concerts in duo with guitar (Duo Giussani with guitarist Julian Richter) and with piano not only on European stages:
In Croatia at the „Bachtage Split“, in France at the „Des Heures Musiscales“ and the „Les Clès du Classique“, in Italy at the „North Lake Como Festival“, the „Incontri Musicali Mediterranei Crotone“ at the Pythagoras Museum Crotone, at Palazzo GiustoVerona, in Levico Terme and at the Hofburg Brixen,
in Switzerland at the „Festival d’Anniviers“, in Brazil at the „Festival de Violoncelos de Ouro Branco“ and in Germany at Seeon Monastery, Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen and Kunstmuseum Bochum, Münster Castle, Haus Opherdicke and at the festival „Celloherbst am Hellweg“, where she has been a member of the 12 Hellweg Cellists for more than 10 years, with whom she has performed several times as a soloist and recorded a CD in 2019.
The Westfälische Nachrichten wrote about the Duo Giussani:
„Listening pleasure, feast for the ears … these words only inadequately describe the sensory delights that listeners can experience at the Duo Giussani’s concerts… The artists offer music as if from another star. The two artists celebrate a musical feast that led through the highs and lows of compositional ingenuity and an almost celebrated art of instrumental mastery.“
www.duo-giussani.de
She is also particularly committed to supporting musical projects for children. For example, she regularly participates in children’s concerts such as the „Carnival of the Animals,“ „The Violin Maker of Cremona“ or „A Castle Full of Music,“ bringing the diverse and exciting world of music closer to children.
Since 2018, Pauline Stephan has been a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation „Live Music Now“
and in 2022 she was awarded a scholarship by the Italian government for her musical achievements.