Mechthild Karkow

Mechthild has dedicated herself to historical performance practice since completing her violin studies. These took her to Petra Müllejans at the Frankfurt/Main Academy of Music and Performing Arts and also to Chiara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she acquired a master’s degree with distinction both in baroque violin and in historical improvisation. She performs internationally as a soloist, concertmaster and chamber musician with various ensembles, plays for radio and CD recordings and appears at renowned festivals. Mechthild Karkow is a winner of the International Competition for Baroque Violin Bonporti 2007 in Rovereto, Italy, and received a special prize at the XVIIth International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2010. She was appointed a professor of baroque violin in 2013 at the Academy of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. In addition, since 2015 she has taught baroque violin at the Frankfurt/Main Academy of Music and Performing Arts.