Friedrich Peschken
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Friedrich Peschken was born in West-Berlin in 1961. As a child he attended a Waldorf school and received piano and cello lessons, later studying double bass with Rainer Zepperitz. He was a student at the Berlin University of the Arts and held a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. He gathered orchestral experience in the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and the Bundesstudentenorchester (today the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie), and undertook concert tours with the European Community Youth Orchestra (today the European Union Youth Orchestra). Since 1987 Friedrich Peschken has been a member of the double bass section of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. He occasionally plays as a guest with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and other ensembles, for example baroque and chamber music with colleagues as part of the Akademie am Meer in Klappholttal on the island of Sylt.