Carolin Widmann

Carolin Widmann has maintained a top-flight career, manifesting a strong commitment to contemporary music while offering choice, connoisseur-label interpretations of mainstream repertory works. Widmann first attracted attention in 1998 by winning the Prix du President at the Concours International Yehudi Menuhin. She followed that up with several other prizes, including one for her first album, Reflections I. The majority of her recordings have been made for the contemporary-music-oriented and semi-audiophile ECM label. She has commissioned new works by Wolfgang Rihm, Julian Anderson, and other composers but has also experimented with historical performance, using gut strings in performances of older music and leading orchestras from the violin. In 2021, she joined her brother, Jörg Widmann, and the SWR Experimentalstudio for an album of works by Pierre Boulez. In 2022, she issued L'aurore, an album of solo violin works.