Anna Katharina Wildermuth (Violin)  

Anna Katharina Wildermuth (*1991) has been performing in the world's most important concert halls for over a decade as principal violinist and co-founder of the Aris Quartet.

Her career as a chamber musician and violinist has taken her to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Wigmore Hall London, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Born in Frankfurt, she completed her studies with Prof. Susanne Stoodt in Frankfurt am Main and in Prof. Günter Pichler's quartet class at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid.

As a member of the Aris Quartet, she won the "International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition" in Weimar and won five prizes at the international ARD competition in Munich. She and her ensemble also received the prestigious chamber music prize from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Borletti Buitoni Trust Award and was named a BBC "New Generation Artist" and included in the internationally renowned ECHO program.

Six highly acclaimed and award-winning CD productions have already been released with the Aris Quartet. Recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and STAGE+ will follow in 2023 and 2024.

In addition to her quartet activities, Wildermuth has been pursuing other versatile chamber music projects for years and is regularly in demand as concertmaster of various chamber orchestras.

Anna Katharina Wildermuth plays a violin made by the Turin violin maker Joannes Franciscus Pressenda in 1843, which was generously made available to her by the Anna Ruths Foundation. She is a "Jargar Strings Artist" and plays violin strings from the "superior" series.