Carolin Widmann

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Contact

For availability & general enquiries:

Adam Brady

Adam Brady

Associate Artist Manager

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Maya Feldman

Maya Feldman

Assistant Artist Manager

For availability & general enquiries (Germany, Austria & Switzerland)

Alexander Hollensteiner

Alexander Hollensteiner

Managing Director/Geschäftsführer (Berlin)

Representation

Worldwide General Management with Askonas Holt (excl. Italy & Spain)

Italy: Studio Longardi
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About Carolin

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.

Carolin is based in Leipzig

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Representation

Worldwide General Management with Askonas Holt (excl. Italy & Spain)

Italy: Studio Longardi
Spain: I-Musica:

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Debut LEONARD BERNSTEIN : Serenade, after Plato: Symposium for solo violin, strings and percussion Conductor: Stanislav Kochanovsky
Sep 2024
Seoul Arts Center
Seoul Philharmonic Debut LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN : Violin Concerto in C major WoO 5 JÖRG WIDMANN : Etudes for Solo Violin Conductor: Jorg Widmann
Nov 2024
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin
Quartet Recital FRANZ SCHUBERT: Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major D 487 GUILLAUME LEKEU: Piano Quartet in B minor JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25 Julian Steckel: Violoncello William Youn: Piano Nils Mönkemeyer: Viola

Video

Audio

  • SCHUMANN Violin Concerto WoO 23, In kraeftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo
  • Mendelssohn's Concerto for violin & orchestra, op.64

Photos

Selected Repertoire

AbrahamsenDouble Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra
Adès:Concentric Paths
AndersonIn lieblicher Bläue
BachViolin concerto E major   •   Violin concert A minor   •   Double concerto for two violins   •   Double concerto for oboe and violin
BartókViolin concerto No. 2
BeethovenViolin Concerto in D Major
BergViolin concerto ‘Im Andenken eines Engels’
BrahmsViolin concerto   •   Double concerto for violin and cello
BruchViolin concerto No. 1
DusapinAufgang
DvorakViolin concerto
FeldmanViolin and Orchestra(recorded for ECM Records)
HaydnViolin Concerto in G Major   •   Violin Concerto in C Major
HillborgViolin Concerto
KorngoldViolin concerto
LigetiViolin Concerto
MendelssohnViolin Concerto in E Minor
MozartViolin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major   •   Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major   •   Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major
ProkofievViolin Concerto No. 1   •   Violin Concerto No. 2
R.StraussViolin Concerto
Rebecca SaundersStill
Rihm‘Coll’Arco’   •   Triple Concerto (Fremdes Licht for soprano, clarinet, violin)
SchumannViolin concerto

News

Press

  • Halle Orchestra: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
    Apr 2024
    • This was a very special performance where the spotlight remained on the soloist. Rustioni ensured that the orchestra gave her the necessary support, and never overwhelmed her. For her part Widmann did not try to impose a personal interpretation. Her cadenza in the first movement was dazzling but was never virtuosity for its own sake. Everything was at the service of the music. There was nothing adversarial between orchestra and soloist; rather they came together as co-operators.