Gernot Adrion

Gernot Adrion has held the post of Assistant Principal Viola in Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1996. Born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Upper Palatinate), he studied viola at Nuremberg Conservatory under the tutelage of Prof. Hans Kohlhase. He has won First Prize at a series of competitions: Jugend musiziert (the German national youth competition), IHK (Chamber of Commerce), the Dr. Drexel Competition (Nuremberg) and the German Conservatory Competition in Darmstadt. Adrion gathered orchestral experience in the German National Youth Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonic, the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), and in the Bamberg Symphony. He also cultivates a passion for chamber music. Since 2006 he has been playing together with Susanne Herzog and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg in the Gideon Klein Trio, an ensemble devoted to string trio repertoire from the Early Baroque to the 20th century. Since 2012 he has formed a piano/viola duo with Yuki Inagawa.