Orchestra members

Karl Heinrich Niebuhr, born in Leipzig in 1985, studied violin at the HMT Leipzig with Klaus Hertel. He received additional impetus from Igor Ozim, Gérard Poulet and Thomas Brandis, among others. He won first prizes at 'Jugend musiziert' and at the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung's violin competition. Karl Heinrich Niebuhr has been a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2007 and principal of the second violins since 2020. He also plays regularly with ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Sinfonia Grange au Lac, the Ensemble Avantgarde and since 2009 in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Since many years he appears as a member and soloist of the ‚Neues Bachisches Collegium musicum‘ under the direction of Reinhard Goebel. As a guest he has been playing with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Vienna Philharmonic. In 2019 he has been playing with the first violin section of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for three months. He gives concerts regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, making radio and CD recordings for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and Deutschlandradio Kultur, among others. In 2023 he joined the Gewandhaus Oktett. Karl Heinrich Niebuhr teaches at the HMT Leipzig and the Mendelssohn Orchesterakademie. As a guest he has been teaching at the Guildhall School of Music London, the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Sydney Conervatorium of Music. He plays a violin which was made by Giuseppe Corsi in Rome 1780.