Breaking: Vienna has new 1st Konzertmeisterin
mainSophie Heinrich has won the audition for first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
She will take the seat on the retirement of Florian Zwiauer in May 2019.
‘It’s a dream comes true,’ says Heinrich. ‘I am looking forward to Vienna, to the exciting new job with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and especially to playing music together with my new colleagues and working with Philippe Jordan and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.’
She is presently first concertmaster of the Komische Oper Berlin.
photo (c) Stefan Kleinberger
I give her 8 and a half months.
5 months….
Arve Tellefsen who has been the subject of two posts this week, was one of her predecessors (1977 – 1981)
https://slippedisc.com/2018/11/how-to-sell-your-violin-and-keep-it/
I’m sure I’m not the only one who fell for the headline – I assumed the Vienna Philharmonic…. I thought I saw pigs flying near the ceiling…..
Surprisingly, the Vienna Phil hired a woman concertmaster about ten years ago.
Congratulations, Sophie!