CAROLIN WIDMANN
violin

biography

A wonderfully versatile musician, Carolin Widmann’s activities span the great classical concerti, new commissions specially written for her, solo recitals, a wide variety of chamber music and period instrument performances, including play/direction from the violin.

Carolin was awarded the Bayerischer Staatspreis for music in 2017, honouring her individuality and exceptional musicianship. Widmann was also the recipient of an International Classical Music Award (Concerto category) for her critically acclaimed recording of both Mendelssohn’s and Schumann’s Violin Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, released in August 2016 by ECM and which Carolin herself conducted from the violin.

Named ‘Musician of the Year’ at the International Classical Music Awards 2013, Carolin has performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, and Bayerische Rundfunk with distinguished conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Jurowski, Sakari Oramo, Daniel Harding, François-Xavier Roth, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. She also appears at such widely known festivals as Musikfest Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Prague Spring International Festival, Pau Casals Festival and Festival d' Automne in Paris.

Recent successes have included engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Danish National Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ä WDR Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Cologne.

Highlights of Carolin’s 2026/27 season include her debuts with the Concertgebouworkest and Enescu Philharmonic, alongside highly anticipated returns to the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Oslo Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and La Toscanini Orchestra.

This season, Carolin will also give the world premieres of two new violin concerti: Clara Iannotta’s ‘sand like gold-leaf in smithereens’, for violin, orchestra and electronics, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and David Moliner’s Concerto for Violin with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León.

Chamber music projects this season include a complete cycle of the Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Gabriele Carcano in Rome and Ferrara, alongside returns to the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Pierre Boulez Saal and Wigmore Hall.

Carolin Widmann is playing a G.B. Guadagnini violin from 1782 which is on loan from a Charitable Trust.



September 2026

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