Violin
Sophia Herbig
Sophia Herbig is a versatile musician who is equally dedicated to chamber music and orchestral playing, and likes to surprise audiences with innovative concert formats. She is also a committed and enthusiastic teacher, both as a lecturer at the Mozarteum University in Innsbruck and as a tutor at masterclasses.
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She is principal second violin of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and has been invited in this position to orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. She also plays in some of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Utopia.
Sophia has performed in various chamber music formations with wonderful musicians such as Lorenza Borrani, William Coleman, Roel Dieltiens, Lily Francis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Alina Pogostkina, Muriel Razavi, Dmitry Smirnov and Rainer Schmidt.
She also works regularly with Ensemble Tamangur, Cosmofonia Ensemble, Spira Mirabilis and Patrick Leung. Her performances have taken her to the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Mozart Week in Salzburg, the Pau Casals Festival, the Innsbruck Promenade Concerts, the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival and the Salzburg Festival. Her recordings and concerts have been broadcast by BR, WDR, ORF and Catalunya Música.
Highlights of recent years include several solo appearances with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg: Vivaldi’s Spring under Reinhard Goebel, and Mozart’s Serenata notturna in several concerts alongside Lorenza Borrani and Roberto González-Monjas, conducted by Manfred Honeck, Ivor Bolton and Maxim Emelyanychev.
Sophia has also performed violin concertos by J. Brahms, F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, W. A. Mozart and A. Khachaturian with conductors Yoel Gamzou, Simon Edelmann, Stefan Schilli, Ulrich Weder and Johannes Zahn and orchestras such as Neue Philharmonie München, the chamber orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s academy and the Sinfonietta Isartal. Her solo appearances have taken her to halls such as the Philharmonie in Munich, Munich’s Herkulessaal and the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie.
Her most influential teachers were Rainer Schmidt as well as Wonji Kim-Ozim and Igor Ozim at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Lorenza Borrani at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Meesun Hong-Coleman at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, and Sonja Korkeala at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Photo: Andrej Grilc
