Frederik Waage (b. 1972), cello, was admitted to the Luxembourg Conservatory at the age of eight and later studied in England, Denmark and the United States with Ralph Kirshbaum, Erling Bløndal Bengtsson and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi among others. In 2002 he made his official début from the Soloist Class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Frederik Waage has won prizes in several competitions, including the Eva Janzer Memorial Popper Cello Competition in Indiana, USA in 1997.