Hannah Weirich
Hannah Weirich received her first violin lessons at the age of six. She became a junior student with Prof Agostini in 1992 and studied with Prof Turban at the HfM Stuttgart from 1999-2004. She attended masterclasses with Gulli, Neamann, Ozim and Zsigmondy, among others.
In 1992, she founded the Trio Fridegk with her sister Anna Weirich and Silvia Nitschke. The trio won national (Berlin 2003) and international prizes (Hradec 2000) and reached the final round of the Melbourne International Chamber Competition in 2007, gave concerts throughout Europe and Asia and was artist-in residence at the UC Davis in California in 2002.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Nürnberger Symphonikern, the State Philharmonic Orchestra Krakow and the Philharmonischen Orchester Hagen. She has received several prizes, including 1st prize at the Jakob-Stainer-Violinwettbewerb and the Förderpreis des Landes NRW in 2011. Hannah Weirich works with the Ensemble Resonanz, among others with the ascolta, ensemble plus, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Contemporaneartensemble (Florence) and the jazz formation Shreefpunk. In 2005, she joined the Ensemble Musikfabrik, with whom she performed at important national and international festivals.
In addition to her busy concert schedule, she also works as a teacher for the Bundesjugendorchesters and the Jugendensembles für Neue Musik Studio Musikfabrik.
Violinist and performer in
- Sonate für Violine Solo
Music by B.A. Zimmermann
Commissioned by the Acht Brücken I Musik Köln Festival in cooperation with the Ensemble Musikfabrik