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Carolin Widmann drew with her instrument these lineaments […] with an almost otherworldly serenity and gentle tension that one forgot to breathe.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Carolin Widmann was born in Munich in 1976 and studied with Igor Ozim (Cologne), Michèle Auclair (Boston), and David Takeno (London).

As a soloist, she played with leading orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra London, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia Rome, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the China Philharmonic Beijing, and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich under conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Emanuel Krivine, Heinz Holliger, and Jonathan Nott.
As a leader, soloist, and conductor, she enjoys close ties with the Camerata Bern in Switzerland.

Carolin Widmann loves chamber music and she regularly appears at the Salzburg, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, the festival d’automne Paris, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Holland Festival and Lars Vogt’s ‘Spannungen’ festival.

She feels at home not only in the classical-romantic period but also with the contemporary violin repertoire. She works with personalities like Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Salvatore Sciarrino, and George Benjamin and premièred pieces by Wolfgang Rihm, Matthias Pintscher, her brother Jörg Widmann, and Jean Barraqué.

Carolin has released three solo CD’s with repertoire ranging from Schumann and Ysaÿe to Xenakis. All three CD’s won high critical acclaim and were awarded the German Critics’ Association CD prize of the year, editor’s choice of the BBC music magazine in England, the Diapason d’Or in France and were nominated for the Gramophone Award in England and the MIDEM Award in France. Further CD recordings are planned for the ECM label.

Furthermore, Carolin Widmann is a passionate teacher. She has been appointed as professor of violin at the Hochschule ‘Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’ in Leipzig in 2006.

She is looking forward to her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski and a tour with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under Sir Roger Norrington in 2010. As an artist-in-residence at the Kunstfest Weimar, she will develop several chamber music and orchestral programmes, together with her brother Jörg.