
Jonas Palm (born 1993 in Ludwigsburg) is a prize winner of numerous competitions, including the German Music Competition, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, the Prémio Internacional Suggia (Porto), the Concorso Enrico Mainardi (Salzburg), and the national competition "Jugend Musiziert" (Youth Makes Music). His debut CD, featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Janáček, and Dutilleux, was released on GENUIN.
As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras including the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Stuttgart and Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, and the Classical Philharmonic Bonn in concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg, and Bremer Glocke. He has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburg Festival, Kasseler Musiktage and Young Euro Classic Berlin, and has performed alongside Marc-André Hamelin, Igor Levit, Nicolas Altstaedt, and Stephan Picard.
He studied with renowned cellists such as Jean-Guihen Queyras, Conradin Brotbek, Clemens Hagen, Nicolas Altstaedt, and Peter Bruns. He also received important inspiration from Eberhard Feltz, Reinhard Geobel, Steven Isserlis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Tabea Zimmermann.
The cellist taught as a teacher at the music conservatorys in Stuttgart and Leipzig and is principal cellist of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. He has also appeared as principal cellist with the Potsdam Chamber Academy, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Lockenhaus Festival Ensemble, and the Haydn Philharmonic.
He plays an instrument made by the Italian violin maker Pietro Ugar, Rome around 1775.
„Sensible Phrasierung, leuchtende Kantilene, Klarheit und Reinheit bis in höchste Lagen, eine makellose Technik und eine sehr ausdrucksstarke Tongebung sind die auffälligsten Eigenschaften dieses hoch talentierten jungen Cellisten“
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung