Sophie Kauer

Sophie Kauer (born 2001) is a British-German cellist and actress who made her screen debut in Todd Field’s Tár, starring alongside Cate Blanchett.

Life and career Kauer was born in London. At the age of 8 she began learning to play the cello; she was accepted 18 months later into the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Melissa Phelps. She studied at the Academy on a scholarship for seven years and simultaneously attended Guildford High School.

In 2019 Kauer was named "Young Musician of the Year" by the Woking Music Festival. Since the autumn of 2020 Kauer has been studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Swedish cellist . A friend had sent it encouraging her to try out. On April 25, 2023, the label announced that her performance of the first of Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, reached number one on the Classical On-Demand Audio Streaming chart, making Kauer "the youngest artist since the chart's inception to achieve this top position at just 21 years old".