Voilà Viola!

A sonorous cross-section through the 1x1 of the viola literature.

Born in Karlsruhe, Simone von Rahden enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and teacher. She studied viola at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Wolfram Christ and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann, where she passed her concert exam with distinction in 2011. She has received further prizes and scholarships at national and international youth competitions, from the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Foundation, the German Foundation for Musical Life, the Jütting Foundation in Stendal and from Claudio Abbado, who passed on the prize awarded to him by the Düsseldorf Kythera Foundation to young up-and-coming musicians. Her first engagements took her to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart Bologna and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra while she was still a student. She has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2009, the Spira mirabilis project since 2007 and was also principal violist in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from 2016-2021. Simone von Rahden has performed as a soloist with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the English Haydn Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne; As a chamber musician, she appears regularly throughout Europe, in recent years also increasingly with ensembles on period instruments such as the Quartetto Bernardini, the Ensemble Promena and her string quintet "Spunicunifait". Simone von Rahden has been a lecturer for viola at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin since 2014 and has also been teaching viola, orchestral studies, literature studies and chamber music at the hmt Rostock since October 2020. From October 2023 she will take over the professorship for string chamber music at the hmt Rostock.

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