Tobias Feldmann
- Violin
About Tobias
Following his BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall (London) in 2024 with the BBC Philharmonic (Beethoven) conducted by Anja Bihlmaier, in the 2024-25 season Tobias will debut with Filharmonia Slaska (Beethoven), Hofer Symphoniker ("Niobe" by Richard Blackford) as well as with Gavle Symfoniorkester with Chloé van Soeterstède. Tobias will return to the Residentie Orkest (Schumann) conducted by Richard Egarr, Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hanover (Hanover State Symphony Orchestra) with Schumann’s Violin Concerto conducted by Stephan Zilias, as well as to the Presidential State Symphony in Ankara, Turkey.
Recent concerto highlights include Prokofiev with the Minnesota Orchestra, Brahms with the BBC Philharmonic and Staatsorchester Hannover, Mozart with WDR Sinfonieorchester and Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Beethoven with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, and Schnittke with Ensemble Resonanz, collaborating with Nathalie Stutzmann, David Afkham, Gemma New, Eivind Aadland and Reinhard Goebel.
A laureate of the Queen Elisabeth and Joseph Joachim competitions, recent highlights for Tobias have included performances with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony, Tonkünstler-Orchester, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Tampere Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra and Moscow State Symphony; working with John Storgårds, Nicholas Collon, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Reinhard Goebel, Fabien Gabel, Anja Bihlmaier and Marin Alsop.
An avid chamber musician, Tobias has performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Vinterfest, Rheingau and Lockenhaus festivals, partnering with Kian Soltani, Martin Helmchen, Timothy Ridout, Christian Tetzlaff, Maximilian Hornung, Nicolas Altstaedt, Lise Berthaud, Julian Steckel and Tabea Zimmermann. He records for Alpha Classics.
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Ollie Haines
For contracts, logistics and press:
Maya Feldman
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
Tobias Feldmann performs Violin Concerto in E major by J.S.Bach, BWV 1042; III. Allegro Assai
Orchestra: Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Recorded at Konzertkirche Neubrandenburg 8/04/21 Credit: the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic
Tobias Feldmann performs Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto Op.14
Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen Orchestra: Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Recording used with kind permission from the Tonkünstler Orchester. 2.12.2020 Grafenegg Auditorium Credit: Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich …
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 A Major
Tobias Feldmann, violin Paul Meyer & Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie Credit: Chambre de Wallonie
RAUTAVAARA // Tobias Feldmann, OPRL & J-J. Kantorow
Following his Alpha recording of sonatas by Prokofiev, Ravel and Strauss, the violinist Tobias Feldmann now turns to the concerto form, performing the two major works of the Finnish repertoire for the instrument: the violin concertos of Jean Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Premiered in Helsinki in 1904, the Sibelius Concerto proved to be exceptionally difficult technically for the soloist. Sibelius revised his score, but subsequently composed for violin and orchestra only in shorter forms, the serenade and the humoresque. It was not until nearly seventy years later that a Finnish composer wrote another large-scale work for violin and orchestra, with the Concerto of Rautavaara, which in all respects equals the degree of virtuosity demanded by the earlier work. Credit: Alpha Classics
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Selected Repertoire
Bach
Double Concerto in D minor
Bach
Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042
Bartok
Violin Concerto No.1
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D Major
Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major
Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Gubaidulina
Violin Concerto No. 2 "In Tempus Praesens"
Haydn
Sinfonia concertante
Korngold
Violin Concerto in D Minor
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor
Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D Minor
News
Tobias Feldmann debuts at BBC Proms
Askonas Holt artists and touring partners to appear at the 2024 BBC Proms
Tobias Feldmann returns to Bournemouth Symphony and BBC Philharmonic
Tobias Feldmann debuts with Helsinki Philharmonic
Tobias Feldmann debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra
Tobias Feldmann debuts with Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Askonas Holt welcomes German violinist Tobias Feldmann for general management
Press
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Eurogress AachenFeb 2025Feldmann presented Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto with an exceptionally beautiful, round and nuanced tone, flawless playing technique and an artistic creativity that made the melodic merits of the popular work clearly audible, so that even the rhythmically more vigorous final movement was never misused as a playground for vain virtuoso self-expression. An impressive testimony to the musical sensitivity and maturity of a musician.
- Aachener Zeitung
- 18 March 2025
Sofia Gubaidulina, BBC Philharmonic
Bridgwater HallOct 2023Feldmann played with unfailing tonal beauty and earnest passion, the cadenza-like section rendered with utmost expression, sounding both plaintive and lovely.
- The Arts Desk
- 30 October 2023
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Newbury FestivalMay 2023"The finale, full of energy, was a tour-de-force from both soloist and orchestra. Feldman’s violin seemed to ‘dance’ with joie-de-vivre. His passionate and virtuosic playing, sparkling with vitality, was so exciting. A jubilant coda ended a superb performance in exhilarating mood."
- Newbury Weekly News
- 20 May 2023
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Usher Hall EdinburghNov 2021“Thirty-year-old Tobias Feldmann gave a performance… as profound as it was sublime. Feldmann’s playing was not only technically impressive but imbued with a brilliance of tone and natural response to the lyrical flow, heightened by that scintillating buzz that emanates from pitching the intonation ever-so-slightly on the sharp side… the outcome was blissful.”
- The Scotsman
- 26 November 2021
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in C major, WoO 5 (Fragment Concerto)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Poole LighthouseDec 2019Last night the Bournemouth Symphony brought it back to life, in a fascinating concert which also included another rarity - a fragment of a violin concerto Beethoven composed as a 20 year-old in Bonn, just before he set off to conquer Vienna [...] The solo violinist Tobias Feldmann seized the dramatic potential of the piece, and in Beethoven’s Romance in F found exactly the right rapturous, unspotted lyricism. He was the real discovery of the evening.
- The Telegraph
- 19 December 2019
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61,
BBC Prom 26, Royal Albert Hall, LondonAug 2024Feldmann played like the first among equals, happy to fly above the orchestra, but always grounded in what was going on around him
- The Arts Desk
- 09 August 2024
