Viktor Töpelmann

Inspired by the 18th-century ideal of joining “head, heart and hand” VIKTOR TÖPELMANN strives to be a well-rounded musician combining performance, teaching and musicological research. For Viktor music is not an artificial end in itself but a vital form of human expression and communication. He read music at King’s College London and studied baroque cello and viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music London and at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. While he was still studying in Cologne, Viktor played the cello with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester Linz and with Concerto con anima (Cologne). Since then he went on to perform as cellist and viol-player throughout Europe, working with conductors such as Gustav Leonhardt, Laurence Cummings, Shunske Sato et al. In 2008 he was a founding member of The