Anne Luisa Kramb, Violin

Anne Luisa Kramb is currently studying in the class of Prof. Antje Weithaas at the University of Music “Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. Previously she had been a student at the Kronberg Academy and the Universities of Music in Frankfurt and Würzburg. 

She has been awarded several First Prizes at international competitions, such as the Telemann Competition Poznan, the ‘Young Paganini‘ Competition Legnica, the Bacewicz Competition Lodz and the Spohr Competition Weimar, where she has also won two Special Prizes. Furthermore, she has been a prize winner in the Menuhin Competition London in 2016. In 2017, Anne Luisa has won the Gold Medal in the Manhattan Music Competition, followed by a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York. 

She has performed with renowned international orchestras, such as the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Philharmonic Sopot, the Staatskapelle Weimar. Anne Luisa has been invited to festivals such as the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Festival “Emanacje“ Krakow. 

Concerts as a soloist and chamber musician, especially as a duo with the pianist Julius Asal, have led her to stages such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. 

The young violinist has gained important musical influence by Sir Simon Rattle, Christoph Eschenbach, Tabea Zimmermann, Gidon Kremer, Sir András Schiff and more. Since 2017, she regularly appears with the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, founded by Gidon Kremer. 

Anne Luisa is supported by several foundations, which include the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung. 

She is playing on a violin by Antonio Stradivari (1724), which is given to her as a generous loan by the Wiegand Family, Klingenberg.