Carolin Widmann

A wonderfully versatile musician, Carolin Widmann’s activities span the great classical concerti, new commissions, solo recitals, a wide variety of chamber music and, increasingly, period instrument performances, including play/direction from the violin. Recent successes have included engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, WDR Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Cologne and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein.

Carolin will debut with an extensive number of orchestras over the 2024/25 season, including with the Danish National Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Further highlights will include the Robert Gerhard concerto with Orquestra Sinfònica de Barcelona, a Kurt Weill inspired play-direct programme with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris featuring Ute Lemper, a tribute to Kaaja Saariaho with SWR Symphonieorchester and the UK premiere of Jorg Widmann's Violin Concerto No. 2, a piece written for and dedicated to her, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She will also be the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini's artist-in-residence for the 24/25 season.

Chamber music projects include two recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal; a quartet programme with Nils Monkemyer, Julian Steckel and William Youn, as well a solo project for violin and electronics; and a return to the Alte Oper Frankfurt.