Tabea Zimmermann

As a soloist, Tabea Zimmermann has performed with a variety of Orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She has also worked under a variety of conductors, including Kurt Masur, Nikolas Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, and Christoph Eschenbach. She has also released over thirty albums documenting a variety of concerts and live performances.

She has also worked thoroughly as a chamber musician, performing with violinist Pamela Frank, pianist Javier Perianes, cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Hartmut Holl, oboist Heinz Holliger and violinist Gidon Kremer. She devoted a part of her career to the Arcanto Quartet formed with violinist Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Since 2002, Tabea Zimmermann has been a professor of viola and chamber music at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She had previously worked at the Saarbrucken Music Academy from 1987 to 1989 and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1994 to 2002.

Throughout her career, she has achieved a variety of awards, including the Ernest Von Siemens Music Prize, Frankfurter Musikpreis, the Hessian Cultural Prize and the International Prize of the Chigiana Music Academy of Sienna.