Vita
Katharina Nicola Giegling
“Katharina is an outstanding musical personality who impresses with her extraordinary musical talent on the one hand and her greatest intelligence on the other. She has a very mature and pronounced musicality as well as excellent technical skills.” (Prof. Friedemann Wezel, University of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” | Leipzig)
Katharina Giegling was born in Heilbronn in 1985 and has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, since July 2023. Katharina plays here regularly as a guest with the Copenhagen Phil and Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
As a freelance musician, she regularly performs with renowned orchestras such as musica assoluta Hannover (concertmaster), the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, the Bavarian Radio Munich and others. Trained in the master class and artistic master's degree courses with Prof. Friedemann Wezel, baroque violin with Prof. Susanne Scholz at the Leipzig University of Music and a diploma in music teaching and artistic training with Prof. Gottfried von der Goltz at the Freiburg University of Music, Katharina can draw on a wide range of different skills Use playing techniques.
At the German Music Competition in 2014, Katharina won a scholarship for the Federal Selection of Concerts of Young Artists in the final as a violinist in the Trio Pierrot with David Kindt (clarinet) and Helge Aurich (piano).
She was a member and concertmaster with a solo role in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with whom she gave concerts under Kent Nagano, Christopher Moulds, Ivor Bolton and Susanna Mälkki in Europe, the USA and Mexico. Katharina also played on projects as concertmaster in the Ensemble Kapella 19 and in the Cologne Chamber Orchestra.
Katharina taught at the Leipzig University of Music as part of the master class program, as well as at the music schools Johann Sebastian Bach and Clara Schumann, the German International School in Boston and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
From 2015-2017 Katharina lived with her family in Boston, USA and founded her own chamber music concert series there. She is a founding member as concertmaster of the local Eureka! Ensemble, gave concerts at the Japanese Consulate General in Boston and gave chamber music concerts with members of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.
Katharina Giegling gained valuable musical inspiration from Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Benjamin Zander (Boston Philharmonic), Carolin Widmann, Friedemann Eichhorn, Heime Müller, Laurent Breuninger, Erich Höbarth and other wonderful musicians.
Katharina has been a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher since July 2014 and combines her passion for music and pedagogy with yoga classes specifically for musicians. The focus is on the connection between body and mind in order to create a balance from daily concerts and traveling and to support and promote musicians' physical health and ability to concentrate.
Katharina wrote her diploma thesis with Prof. Anselm Ernst on the subject of “The inner state when practicing and making music”.
Her book “Yoga for Musicians - How to regain your balance, stay pain free and become more successful” was published in November 2019.
With her program “Yoga for Musicians”, Katharina works as a coach with musicians all over Europe, renowned soloists and orchestras from the BR, NDR Hannover, Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Rias Kammerchor.
Katharina has 3 children with her husband Nicco Krezdorn.
Concerts
Soloists from musica assoluta
