Carolin Widmann (born 1976) is a German classical violinist. The sister of composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, she focuses mainly on contemporary music. She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

Career

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 Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington (born 16 March 1934) is an English conductor. He is known for historically informed performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music. In November 2021 Norrington announced his retirement. Life Norr ...

, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Holliger,

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, Sir

Simon Rattle Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal ...

, Vladimir Jurowski, Daniel Harding and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has collaborated with composers such as

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

, Peter Eötvös, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders, who have written several works especially for her.Biography of her Homepage
She has performed with orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,

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or Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Since October 2006 she has been Professor of Violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. 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 and pianist Hidéki Nagano. 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. A 2012 recording of Schubert's works for violin and piano with

Alexander Lonquich Alexander Lonquich (born 28 August 1960 in Trier) is a German classical pianist and conductor. Biography Lonquich studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrzej Jasiński, and Ilonka Deckers-Küszler. He won the first prize at the Alessandro Casa ...

received critical acclaim. With her brother and pianist Dénes Várjon she played a concert at the Rheingau Musik Festival when he was artist in residence in 2014. Since 2017 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the .

Awards

* 1998 Prix du President at the "Concours International Yehudi Menuhin," Boulogne-sur-Mer * 1999 International Violin Competition: "Georg Kulenkampff", Köln * 2001 International Jeunesses Musicales Contest, Belgrade * 2004

Belmont Prize The Belmont Prize is a music award named after the place of destiny in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice''. The Munich-based Forberg Schneider Foundation, founded in 1997, promotes outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary music. T ...

of the Forberg-Schneider-Stiftung for excellence in contemporary music * 2006 Annual Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (for the debut album "Reflections“) * 2010 Diapason d’Or (for "Phantasy of Spring"), Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Chamber music category for "Phantasy of Spring") * 2013 'Artist of the Year' at the International Classical Music Awards * 2014 Schneider-Schott Music Prize of the City of Mainz * 2017 * 2020

Duisburger Musikpreis The Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg, also Duisburger Musikpreis was established in 1990 by the for the Promotion of Art and Science. This international music prize is intended to highlight "outstanding achievements in the field of music". The foun ...

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 Anu Tali (born June 18, 1972) is an Estonian conductor. Life and career Tali was born in Tallinn. Her mother Anne Tali is a prominent mathematician. Her twin sister Kadri Tali is also a conductor and the director of the Estonian National Symph ...

: Erkki-Sven Tüür, Strata * 2012

/ Carolin Widmann: Franz Schubert – Fantasie C-Dur / Rondo h-moll / Sonate A-Dur * 2012 Carolin Widmann /

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg The Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra (also known in English as the SWR Baden-Baden Freiburg Symphony Orchestra and in German as the Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks) was a German radio orchestra located in the German cities of Bad ...

/ Eivind Gullberg Jensen: Wolfgang Rihm, Coll’Arco * 2013 Carolin Widmann / Frankfurt RSO-Pomarico: Morton Feldman – Violin and Orchestra (composed 1979) * 2015 Carolin Widmann / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Direction Vladimir Jurowski: Julian Anderson: ''In lieblicher Bläue'' * 2016 Carolin Widmann / Chamber Orchestra of Europe:

Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...

, Schumann: Violin concertos * 2016 Martin Helmchen / Carolin Widmann / David McCarroll / Pauline Sachse / Marie-Elisabeth Hecker:

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

: ''Piano Quintet a minor op. 84'' * 2017 Carolin Widmann / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire / Direction Pascal Rophe:

Pascal Dusapin Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy. A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse, Dusapin studied at the University of Paris I ...

: ''Violin concerto „Aufgang“'', Label BIS * 2019 Carolin Widmann / Sergei Nakariakov / / Vocalconsort Berlin / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks:

Peter Ruzicka Peter Ruzicka (born 3 July 1948) is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of ...

: ''... Inseln, Randlos...'' for violin, chamber choir and orchestra; Label Neos

References

External links

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List of the Schumann Album on MusicWeb International

Interview on Classical WETA 90.9

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