Franziska Hölscher

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Franziska Hölscher (* 1982 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical violinist .

life and work

Franziska Hölscher began to learn to play the violin at the age of five. She received her professional music education from Ulf Hoelscher (not related to the artist) at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and from Thomas Brandis at the Musikhochschule Lübeck . In 2013 she completed her studies with Nora Chastain at the Berlin University of the Arts .

In 1999, at the age of 17, she won first prize at the International Radio Competition in Prague . Two years later she made a successful debut alongside Martha Argerich as a chamber musician. “ She had an artistic friendship with the author Roger Willemsen . With him she developed the stage program “Landscapes”, in which she [te] ns correspondence between word and music. ”She also worked with the actress Katja Riemann on such cross-music projects . In her “dramaturgically well thought-out concert programs” she combines works from the baroque and classical-romantic repertoire with contemporary music. Similar approaches to the integration of age or Classic with new music , she realized on their CD Sequenza of 2018. For the SWR2 podcast #zusammenspielen played Franziska Hoelscher in the summer of 2020 contemporary music, specifically an etude of the composer Jörg Widmann , and a work of her former fellow student, the composer Birke J. Bertelsmeier .

A special concern of the artist is the collaboration with children and young people in the context of the project "Rhapsody in School" initiated by Lars Vogt . Franziska Hölscher is the artistic director of the chamber music series "Klangbrücken" at the Konzerthaus Berlin and, since 2018, of the Mettlach Chamber Music Days . At the latter festival she developed new formats for young audiences with lecture concerts and open rehearsals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ year of birth according to GND and, for example, Saarländischer Rundfunk; the BNF gives a wrong year of birth with 1981.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i SR: Franziska Hölscher.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Franziska Hölscher: Personal website of the artist.
  4. ↑ Violinist Franziska Hölscher plays contemporary music. SWR2, archived from the original on August 20, 2020 ; accessed on August 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hölscher, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg