Katrin Scholz began to play the violin at the early age of five years. During her childhood she already visited the “Spezialschule für Musik Berlin” and afterwards studied at the “Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler” with her teacher Prof. Werner Scholz for many years. After that she studied with the Slovenian violinist Igor Ozim.
At the age of 14 years she already won the second price at the International Wieniawski-Violin Competition Lublin. Later on, Katrin Scholz gained the first prize at renowned international violin competitions, such as the International Musical Competition Tokyo and the Kuhlenkampff Violin Competition Cologne.

 

Up to now she has played with renowned orchestras, under them the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the MDR-Radio-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, where she was joined by conductors like Vladimir Fedosseyev, Peter Schreier, Gerd Albrecht, Miguel Gómez-Martínez, Ulf Schirmer, Ejii Oue, Milan Horvat and Ken Takaseki.

She has participated in many festivals, for example in Schwetzingen, Santiago de Compostela, The “Carinthischer Sommer”, Tibor Varga Sion and the “MDR-Musiksommer”. Guest performances have led her i.a. to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Theatre Chatelet in Paris and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as well as to Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Montevideo.
Katrin Scholz has recorded numerous CDs hitherto, i.a. the complete violin concerts of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, the violin concerts of Camille Saint-Saens (n. 3) and Bohuslav Martinu (n. 2) as well as recently the violin concerts of Ludwig van Beethoven and Max Bruch (n.1)
Since 1995 Katrin Scholz is the artistic director of the renowned Berlin Chamber Orchestra, arranging her own concert series in the concert halls of Berlin and undertaking numerous guest performances at home and abroad. Since 1998 Katrin Scholz holds a professorship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Katrin Scholz plays on a violin of the workshop of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Piacenza 1743).

Discography

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - All violin concerts (2 CDs) / Kammerorchester Berlin BERLIN CLASSICS (0011592 & 0011582)
Spanish Dance - Virtuous Works for violin of Sarasate, de Falla, Kreisler, Ravel, Albéniz, Granados, Schtschedrin. Piano: Gerald Fauth BERLIN CLASSICS (0011872)
Johannes Brahms - Sonates n. 1-3 / Piano: Gerald Fauth / JVC (VICC 166)
Show Pieces - Virtuous Werke for violin of Sarasate, Saint-Saens / Piano: Gerald Fauth - JVC (VICC 167)
Ottorino Respighi/Cesar Franck - Sonates for Violin and Piano / Piano: Gerald Fauth - JVC (VICC 60108)
Camille Saint-Saens – Violin concert n. 3 / Bohuslav Martinu - Violin concert n. 2
Hamburger Symphoniker / Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing
BERLIN CLASSICS (0017112BC)

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