Carolin Widmann

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Contact

For availability & general enquiries:

Adam Brady

Adam Brady

Associate Artist Manager

For contracts, logistics & press:

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
Spain: I-Musica:

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About Carolin

A wonderfully versatile musician, Carolin Widmann’s activities span the great classical concerti, new commissions specially written for her, solo recitals, a wide variety of chamber music and, increasingly, period instrument performances, including play/direction from the violin.

The 2023-24 season will see Carolin return to the Berliner Philharmoniker and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic to perform Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She will also appear with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Filarmonica Toscanini, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Polish National Radio Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele and the Prague Spring International Music Festival.

Recent highlights include Carolin’s debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Maxim Emelyanychev, Munich Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester with Robin Ticciati, her New York debut play/directing the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as well as returns to the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein, and the WDR Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Cologne.

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 2023 - Sep 2023
Philharmonie, Berlin
Jorg Widmann Violin Concerto No 2 Berliner Philharmoniker Jorg Widmann (conductor)
Oct 2023
Auditorium Paganini, Parma
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Schumann Violin Concerto Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini Carolin Widmann (play/conduct)
Nov 2023
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Ligeti Violin Concerto City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Carter (conductor)

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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.