About

Isaac Lottman (2003), is a Dutch cellist from Amsterdam who began playing the cello at the age of three. He received his first lessons with Arie Aarts and later studied with Charles Watt and Monique Bartels. At thirteen, he was admitted to the Sweelinck Academy for young talent, where he studied with Monique Heidema. In 2020 he began his Bachelor studies with Pieter Wispelwey and Maarten Mostert. He is currently studying with Pieter Wispelwey, who has been his teacher for the past six years.

He will start his Artist Residency at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in September 2026, in the class of Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling.

He recently received the first prize at the OPM international cello competition in Morocco in April 2026. In December 2025 he received both audience prize and second prize at the Lions Europe Competition in Dublin. In 2022 he received second prize at the National Cello Biënnale Competition and in 2019 the first prize at the Britten competition. He was also a semi-finalist in the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition.

He participated in masterclasses with Nicolas Altstaedt, Gary Hoffman, Dmitri Ferschtman, Ivan Karizna, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Matthias Bartolomey, Pierre Colombet, Yovan Markovitch, Quirine Viersen, Gerhard Schulz, Marc Daniel, Luc-Marie de Aguera and Lukas Hagen.

Isaac loves chamber music, and has been part of a string quartet for five years, until 2025. He still plays chamber music with the ‘Amstel pianotrio’ and with his sister Yente Lottman, a violinist.

As a soloist he appeared at the Muziekgebouw and the Concertgebouw, and has played with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, L’orchestre Philharmonique Maroc, the Conservatory of Amsterdam orchestra and Orkest Amsterdam.

Instrument

He is currently playing on a cello built by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, on loans from ‘het instrumentenfonds’.