Widely regarded as one of Europe’s leading double bass players, Wies de Boevé has won six international music competitions, including first prize and the audience prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich 2016 and first prize at the Bottesini Competition in Crema 2017. In 2015, he became the first double bass player in history to win first prize at the German Music Competition.
As principal double bass of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and a regular guest with many other leading ensembles (such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra), Wies frequently performs in major concert halls under the baton of the world’s leading conductors.
Wies is also recognised as one of the foremost interpreters of the solo repertoire for double bass, which he regularly performs as a soloist and in recital with piano. His first CD, featuring 19th- and 20th-century music for double bass and piano (2016), garnered widespread international acclaim. In 2020, Warner Classics released Wies’s second solo album dedicated to the concertos of Giovanni Bottesini.
A highly sought-after chamber musician, Wies has performed throughout Europe with Janine Jansen, Bruno Giuranna, Christophe Coin and Pascal Moraguès. He also participated (with Isabelle Faust, Lorenzo Coppola and Reinhold Friedrich, among others) in the Harmonia Mundi recording for period instruments of Stravinsky’s “A Soldier’s Tale”, which was released in 2021.
Wies de Boevé is professor of double bass at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. He has given masterclasses all over the world and has been a tutor for the double bass section of the European Union Youth Orchestra since 2013.