A native of Munich, Carolin Widmann studied with Igor Ozim in Cologne, Michèle Auclair in Boston and David Takeno in London. She strives to span a bridge between repertoire from well-known classical and more recent new music. Contemporary composers like Wolfgang Rihm, Matthias Pintscher and Erkki-Sven Tüür has written for Carolin Widmann, who also has been working with György Kurtág and Pierre Boulez. At the same time she feels a sense of obligation and affinity to the traditional violin repertory. As a soloist, Carolin Widmann has stood before Germany’s major radio symphony orchestras WDR, NDR, SWR, HR as well as the renowned Danish ensemble, Collegium Musicum Copenhagen. Among notable conductor collaborations include Yehudi Menuhin, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger and Michael Schønwandt.
Carolin Widmann has also won several important prizes and is a professor for violin on the faculty of the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Musikhochschule in Leipzig.