Carolin Widmann

Carolin Widmann (* 1976 in Munich ) is a German violinist . She plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1782.

Life

Carolin Widman received her training from Igor Ozim in Cologne, Michèle Auclair in Boston and David Takeno in London. As a soloist she worked with the conductors Sir Roger Norrington , Sylvain Cambreling , Heinz Holliger , Riccardo Chailly , Sir Simon Rattle , Wladimir Jurowski and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as with the composers Pierre Boulez , Péter Eötvös , Erkki-Sven Tüür , Wolfgang Rihm and Salvatore Sciarrino and Rebecca Saunderstogether, many of which were written especially for them. Since October 2006 she has been professor for violin at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . She was involved in the world premiere of folded , a “choreographic concert” by Sasha Waltz and Mark Andre , with which the International Mozarteum Foundation opened its “Mozart Week 2012”. From the same year she took over the management of the Hitzacker Summer Music Days , Germany's oldest chamber music festival. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation since 2017 .

Carolin Widman is the sister of the composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann .

Awards

• 1998 Prix ​​du President of the “Concours International Yehudi Menuhin”, Boulogne-sur-Mer
• 1999 International Violin Competition "Georg Kulenkampff", Cologne
• 2001 International Jeunesses Musicales Competition, Belgrade
• 2004 Belmont Prize from the Forberg Schneider Foundation for efforts in contemporary music
• 2006 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics (for the debut album "Reflections")
• 2009 internship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
• 2010 Diapason d'or (for "Phantasy of Spring"), Prize of the German Record Critics (Chamber Music category, for "Phantasy of Spring")
• 2013 Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards
• 2014 Schneider Schott Music Prize Mainz
• 2017 Bavarian State Prize for Music (category professional music-making )

Discography

• 2006 Carolin Widmann: "Reflections" (debut album)
• 2008 Carolin Widmann / Dénes Várjon: Schumann - Violin Sonatas
• 2009 Carolin Widmann / Simon Lepper: Phantasy of Spring - Feldman, Zimmermann, Schoenberg
• 2009 Carolin Widmann / Jörg Widmann / Nordic Symphony Orchestra / Anu Tali: Erkki-Sven Tüür, Strata
• 2012 Alexander Lonquich / Carolin Widmann: Franz Schubert - Fantasy in C major / Rondo in B minor / Sonata in A major
• 2012 Carolin Widmann / SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg / Eivind Gullberg Jensen: Wolfgang Rihm, Coll'Arco
• 2013 Carolin Widmann / Frankfurt RSO-Pomarico: Morton Feldman - Violin and Orchestra (composed 1979)
• 2016 Carolin Widmann / Chamber Orchestra of Europe Mendelssohn / Schumann - Violin Concertos

Web links

• Homepage Carolin Widmann
• Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and questions about the person from March 22, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on carolinwidmann.com
2. ↑ Biography at the artist agency Askonas Holt (English)
3. ↑ Women in wings in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 29, 2012, p. 22
4. ↑ Villa Massimo | Carolin Widmann. Retrieved August 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Carolin Widmann receives Schneider Schott Music Prize musik-heute.de, June 26, 2014.
6. ↑ Review of the Schumann CD on musicweb-international.com (English)