Born in
Osnabrück, Rauh spent her childhood in
Oxford, where she took violoncello lessons with Jonathan Beecher from 1989 to 1999. At the age of 16 she was accepted as a young student in Gerhard Mantel's cello class at the
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2003, she continued her education there as part of her main cello studies, which she completed in 2005 with an honours diploma. She completed her concert exams at the
Berlin University of the Arts with Jens Peter Maintz with distinction; in 2009 she completed her studies with Markus Becker at the
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with a predicate concert exam in the subject of violoncello in
chamber music. She received musical inspiration from
Mstislav Rostropovich and
Philippe Muller in Paris. She also took part in international
master classes with
Wolfgang Boettcher,
Alfred Brendel,
Young-Chang Cho,
David Geringas,
Leonid Gorokhov,
Frans Helmerson, ,
Gerhard Mantel,
Arto Noras and
Heinrich Schiff. In her solo concerts, Rauh appears as a soloist with works by
Antonín Dvořák,
Johannes Brahms,
Carl Maria von Weber and
Heitor Villa-Lobos Another focus of their repertoire is the French composers of
Impressionism such as
Camille Saint-Saëns and
Maurice Ravel. Rauh also played the German
premieres of several compositions by contemporary composers. In 2001 she performed the cello character piece ''Ay, there's the rub'' at the
Staatstheater Darmstadt at the invitation of the composer
Marco Stroppa. In November 2008, she also played at the scholarship holders' concert of the in the concert hall of the
Universität der Künste Berlin. Since her solo debut in 1998, Rauh has performed as a soloist with orchestras, as a recitalist with the
Duo Parthenon and as a chamber musician. Concert tours have taken her to Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia and Japan. Further projects of Rauh were duo performances with Johannes Nies within the framework of the
Villa Musica foundation, including works by
Rodion Shchedrin,
Manuel de Falla and
Astor Piazzolla. In February 2010, she performed with the programme "Masterpieces of European Cello Literature" at the Landesmusikakademie Hessen. In 2016, she released her classical-jazz album
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