Caroline Busser is a cellist of German/French origin. She was born in Munich and received her first cello lessons with professor Stephan Haack. Further studies took her to Strasbourg, Detmold, and the United States, where she worked with Bernard Greenhouse. Finally, she studied with Helmar Stiehler at the Munich University of Music where she completed the Meisterklassenabschluss degree. She has played in the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and the Junge Deutsche Philhamonie, and in 2010 she won a scholarship to play in the Orchestral Academy of the Munich Philharmonic, where she performed with conductors such as Maazel, Thielemann, and Mehta.
Caroline Busser has been the recipient of many prizes and awards such as the Jugend Musiziert State Prize, the Dieter-Ulrich Sponsorship Prize in Munich, and a one-year scholarship from the Rotary Club. She has also won the Albert Eckstein Foundation award, the Ernst von Siemens Kulturfond award, and has played in the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now series. She is an avid chamber musician and has performed with the Philharmonic Cello Quartet at the International Cello Congress in Japan as well as in a piano trio at the Samos Young Artists Festival. Since 2013, Caroline Busser has been principal cellist at the Pfalz Theatre in Kaiserslautern.
