Nina Karmon I Violine
Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for her special tone: "She sucks the notes out of her instrument, is able to create wide arches and has a distinctive feeling for quiet tones that sound like they come from a magical world on her instrument," Nina Karmon performs internationally as a soloist.
Concert tours have taken her through Europe and Asia as well as to North and South America to concert halls such as the Tonhalle Zurich, Konzerthaus Vienna, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, Staatsoper Munich, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Harmonie Heilbronn, Athenäum Bucharest (Romania), Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore), Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall (Japan), Seoul Arts Center (Korea) and others. As a soloist, Nina Karmon has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra in Munich, the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Oslo, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra as part of the large “Klassik Open Air” in Nuremberg, which was attended by 70,000 listeners, the “George Enescu” Philharmonic Bucharest, the Filarmonica Banatul Timisoara, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Heilbronn Symphony Orchestra, the Manhattan Chamber Sinfonia, the Korean Chamber Ensemble, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and others, under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman, Ruben Gazarian, Evan Alexis Christ, Helmuth Rilling, Bernhard Güller, Gabriel Feltz, Christian Simonis, Jörg Faerber, Peter Braschkat, Igor Shukow, Ari Rasilainen, Juha Kangas, Emil Simon, Horia Andreescu, Romeo Rimbu and Gottfried Rabl. A particularly enriching experience was the musical collaboration with the pianist Gerhard Oppitz. As an enthusiastic chamber musician, she works with artists such as Peter Bruns, Corey Cerovsek, Amaury Coeytaux, Juan Jose Chuquisengo, Olivier Doise, Terhi Dostal, Jurek Dybał, Niklas Eppinger, Ismo Eskelinen, Stefan Fehlandt, Bengt Forsberg, David Frühwirth, Roland Glassl, Giovanni Gnocchi, Justus Grimm, Michèle Gurdal, Maximilian Hornung, Alexander Hülshoff, Thorsten Johanns, Hervé Joulain, Benedict Klöckner, Elisabeth Kufferath, Roland Krüger, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Trey Lee, Michel Lethiec, Jack Liebeck, Matthias Lingenfelder, Lilli Maijala, Diyang Mei, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Laura Mikkola, Floris Mijnders, Sindy Mohamed, Béatrice Muthelet, Lena Neudauer, Arto Noras, Denis Omerovic, Bruno Pasquier, Régis Pasquier, Natalia Prishepenko, Rachel Roberts, Hartmut Rohde, Martti Rousi, Pauline Sachse, Guido Schiefen, Stefan Schilli, Hariolf Schlichtig, Niklas Schmidt, Henri Sigfridsson, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Maria Sofanska, Nina Tichman, Oliver Triendl, Gunars Upatnieks, Andreas Willwohl, Wen-Sinn Yang, Wen Xiao Zheng and others.
She has also performed at the “Kuhmo Festival”, “Iitti Festival” and “Karjalohja Festival” in Finland, the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, the “Muskoka Lakes Festival” in Canada, the “Mainly Mozart Festival” in Florida (USA), the “Ludwigsburg Castle Festival”, the “Oberstdorf Music Summer”, the “Hohenloh Culture Summer”, the “Mozartiade”, the “Mosel Festival Weeks” and the “Classix Kempten”.
Several CD recordings, as well as the recording of Astor Piazzolla's "Histoire du Tango" for violin and guitar, distributed via iTunes, document her work. From 2008-2023 she was artistic director of the "International Chamber Music Festival at Schaubeck Castle". In 2024 she founded the "International Chamber Music Festival in Biet".
Born in Stuttgart, Nina Karmon began playing the cello at the age of five with her mother, a Finnish cellist, but switched to the violin at the age of seven and was taught in the following years by her father, the then concertmaster of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. After studying with Silvia Marcovici, Vladimir Landsman, Radu Bozgan and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. Werner Scholz, Nina Karmon went to New York for three years, where she completed her studies with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music. From the winter semester 2024/25, Nina Karmon will be teaching at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig.
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Course description
The course is aimed at students, professional violinists and aspiring, interested violinists with previous knowledge.