Alma Vivienne Keilhack (2006)

| Germany

Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Professor | Herwig Zack

Accompanist | Dorian Keilhack

At the age of 3, Alma Vivienne Keilhack began playing the violin with her mother and then switched to studies with Irina Goldstein. Since 2017, she has been studying as a pre-college student with prof. Herwig Zack at the Würzburg University of Music. She has attended masterclasses with prof. Zakhar Bron, prof. Ingolf Turban, prof. Lihay Bendayan, prof. Petr Macecek and prof. Eva Bindere. She also takes regular lessons with prof. Pavel Berman at the Academia Perosi. Alma Vivienne Keilhack has won many prizes in national and international competitions, including 1st prize at the Pram Castle International Violin Competition, 1st prize at the “Jugend Musiziert”, 4th prize at the International Telemann Competition in Poznan. In 2019, Alma Vivienne Keilhack made her debut with Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in Munich. In December 2019-January 2020, she toured China as a soloist with the Camerata Franconia, and in the summer of 2020 she appeared as a soloist with the renowned Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra. In October 2022, she played Beethoven's Romance in F major with the Junge Staatsphilharmonie under the baton of the internationally renowned conductor Joana Mallwitz. In 2023, she played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor together with the Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra at the Collegium Musicum-Schloss Pommersfelden, and the same piece with the New Philharmonic in Munich. In 2024, Alma will be playing the Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto as a soloist with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.