Carolin Widmann | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Munich, West Germany |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
| Website | www |
Carolin Widmann (born 1976) is a German classical violinist. She focuses mainly on contemporary music. [1] She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.
Born in Munich, Widmann studied with Igor Ozim in Cologne, Michèle Auclair in Boston and David Takeno in London. As a soloist she has been conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Holliger, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Daniel Harding and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders, who have written several works especially for her. [2] She has performed with orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra or Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since October 2006 she has been Professor of Violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. [3] From 2012 to 2015 she ran the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Germany's oldest chamber music festival.
At the Salzburg Mozartwoche of 2009, Widmann performed chamber music by Boulez with her brother, clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann, and pianist Hideki Nagano. [4] She attracted attention with her collaboration in gefaltet, a "Choreographic concert" organised by Sasha Waltz and Mark Andre, with which the International Mozarteum Foundation opened their Mozartwoche of 2012. [5] A 2012 recording of Schubert's works for violin and piano with Alexander Lonquich received critical acclaim. [6] With her brother and pianist Dénes Várjon she played a concert at the Rheingau Musik Festival when he was artist in residence in 2014. [7] Since 2017 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung . [8]
Carolin Widmann premiered in 2018 Jörg Widmann's Violin Concerto No. 2 at Suntory Hall, Tokyo. [9]
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