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Carolin Widmann (German: [kaʁoˈliːn ˈviːtman]; born 1976) is a German classical violinist. She focuses on contemporary music. Widmann 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, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Holliger, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Daniel Harding and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders, who have written several works especially for her. She has performed with orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra 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, clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann, and pianist Hideki 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 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 Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Carolin Widmann premiered in 2018 Jörg Widmann's Violin Concerto No. 2 at Suntory Hall, Tokyo.




Awards


1998 Prix du President at the "Concours International Yehudi Menuhin," Boulogne-sur-Mer
1999 International Violin Competition: "Georg Kulenkampff", Cologne
2001 International Jeunesses Musicales Contest, Belgrade
2004 Belmont Prize 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 Bayerischer Musikpreis
2020 Duisburger Musikpreis




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2009 Villa Massimo




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2021 Sächsische Akademie der Künste




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 – Fantasie C-Dur / Rondo h-moll / Sonate A-Dur
2012 Carolin Widmann / SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / 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, Schumann: Violin concertos
2016 Martin Helmchen / Carolin Widmann / David McCarroll / Pauline Sachse / Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet a minor op. 84
2017 Carolin Widmann / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire / Direction Pascal Rophe: Pascal Dusapin: Violin concerto "Aufgang", Label BIS
2019 Carolin Widmann / Sergei Nakariakov / Giuliano Sommerhalder / Vocalconsort Berlin / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks: Peter Ruzicka: ... Inseln, Randlos... for violin, chamber choir and orchestra; Label Neos




References






Further reading


"Eine Lange Nacht über Vorbilder in der Musik – Glühend verehrt, schmerzlich entzaubert". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 21 April 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2023.




External links


Official website (in German and English)
List of the Schumann Album on MusicWeb International
Interview on Classical WETA 90.9 Archived 27 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Strap-CD onswr.de

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