German violinist Carolin Widmann has maintained a top-flight career in central Europe and in Britain, manifesting a strong commitment to contemporary music while offering choice, connoisseur-label interpretations of mainstream repertory works.
Widmann was born in 1976 in Munich; her brother, Jörg Widmann, is a noted clarinetist and composer. Widmann's training was fully international, taking place under Igor Ozim in Germany, David Takeno in England, and Michèle Auclair in the U.S., at Boston's New England Conservatory. Widmann first attracted attention in 1998 by winning the...