Friedemann Eichhorn

Friedemann Eichhorn is a German violinist. A student of Valery Gradow at the Mannheim University of Music, he went on with Yehudi Menuhin's recommendation to study with Alberto Lysy at the International Menuhin Music Academy. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, studying violin with Margaret Pardee, chamber music with Earl Carlyss and Samuel Sanders, and conducting with Miguel Harth Bedoya. Eichhorn earned his Ph.D. in musicology and law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. A violin professor and director of the strings program at the Liszt School of Music at Weimar, he also teaches master classes at the University of Music in Vienna, the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Guildhall School of Music in London, and the Gustav Mahler Academy in Bozen. Eichhorn has recorded extensively for Naxos, Haenssler, and Oehms Classics.