Andreas Willwohl

Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He trained with Professor Alfred Lipka at the Universities of Musik “Franz Liszt“ in Weimar, and “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; he also received valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard Feltz, Kim Kashkashian, and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet.
He was a prizewinner at the Concours International de Bordeaux (2002) and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation in Berlin.
As a viola virtuoso and chamber music partner, Andreas Willwohl has appeared at a number of international festivals including Salzburg, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein and Bogotá; he played with colleagues including Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Isang Enders, Marc-André Hamelin, Lauma Skride and Daniel Heide.
As a soloist he has concertized with the Berlin RSO, Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, and the Metamorphosen Chamber Philharmonic (Berlin), collaborating with conductors of the likes of Marek Janowski, Patrick Lange, Christoph Poppen, Matthias Foremny, Conrad van Alphen, and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and appearing in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium in Dijon, and Metz Congress Hall. A great number of broadcast recordings and CD releases on the Pentatone and Audite labels offer further proof of his versatile talent.
In 2011, Andreas Willwohl was appointed viola professor at Nuremberg University of Music; he imparts masterclasses in Europe and Asia on a regular basis. He has been a member of the Mandelring Quartet since 2015, and in 2012 he founded the Ceres Ensemble.
After one of his appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie, a critic wrote: “Not since the Alban Berg Quartet’s Thomas Kakuska have I found the performance of a violist in a chamber music ensemble so utterly convincing.” Andreas Willwohl plays an instrument by Stefan Peter Greiner with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.