Marianne Diessner

Marianne Diessner grew up in Leipzig, Germany, and started playing the cello when she was ten. She came to Aberdeen for a gap year after school, and since then Scotland has become her home.

In 2006 she joined the BMus course at the RSAMD to study with Robert Irvine. She recently changed teacher and is now studying with William Conway. Marianne also very much enjoys her Baroque cello studies with Alison McGillivray.

Marianne has played in solo and chamber music masterclasses with Alexander Baillie, Johannes Goritzki, Maria Kliegel, members of the Scottish Ensemble, the Gould Piano Trio, the Brodsky Quartet and the Maggini Quartet.

In June 2009 she won the Ian D. Watt competition for string players at the RSAMD.

Marianne has taken part in the RSNO apprenticeship scheme and in a side-by-side concert tour with the Scottish Ensemble. Recently she joined other students from the RSAMD to play a series of concerts with a string octet led by International Fellow Ilya Gringolts. For 2010 she has been invited to join projects with the Britten-Pears Orchestra and Baroque Orchestra.