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    2024/NOV/07 · 07:30 PM
    S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall - Seattle, USA

  • Franziska Hügel

    Franziska Hügel
    ©Marco Blessano

    Bio

    Year of birth:
    1999

    Place of birth:
    Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

    Studies:

    • Viola (BA) – Cologne: Hochschule für Musik und Tanz – Matthias Buchholz (2017-2022)

    • Viola (MA) – Berlin: Hochschule für Musik
      „Hanns Eisler“ – Tabea Zimmermann (2022-2023)

    • Viola (MA) – Frankfurt: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Tabea Zimmermann (since 2023)

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    Biography:

    Franziska Hügel was born in 1999 in Bergisch Gladbach. She received her first violin lessons at the age of five and switched to viola at the age of eight. In the course of her musical education, she won first prizes at national level at the competition „Jugend musiziert“ in 2013 and 2016.

    In 2013, Franziska began her studies as a young student in the class of Prof. Matthias Buchholz at the Conservatory for music and dance cologne. She finished her bachelor´s studies there in 2022. During her Bachelor´s studies she also studied at the University of music and performing arts in Vienna with Prof. Thomas Selditz within the Erasmus+ programm. She then started her master´s studies with Prof. Walter Küssner and Prof. Tabea Zimmermann at the Academy of music „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. She now continues at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann.

    Due to several masterclasses she received artistic impulses from renowned violists such as Antoine Tamestit, Roland Glassl and William Coleman. Franziska gained a lot of orchestral experiences, among others as the principle violist at the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In 2022 she was a member of the Zermatt Festival Orchestra. Early on, she regularly gained chamber musical experience. Later she participated in masterclasses at Kronberg Academy, Swiss International Music Academy and Deutscher Kammermusikkurs.

    Franziska currently plays a viola by Bernard Simon Fendt (London, 1820), wich she received as a prize winner at the 26th competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund (Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond) of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

    Studierende

    Jelena Antić

    Maj Bommas

    Bella Chich

    Ukyo Fujiwara

    Franziska Hügel

    Brian Isaacs

    Arcan Isenkul

    Sophie Kiening

    Gordon Lau

    Sào Soulez Larivière

    Haesue Lee

    Natalie Loughran

    Eric Seohyun Moon

    Nicholas Swensen

    Ayaka Taniguchi

    Caspar Vinzens

    Luisa Ye

    Alumni

    Micha Afkham

    Guy Ben-Ziony

    Agathe Blondel

    Barbara Buntrock

    Öykü Canpolat

    Marie Chilemme

    Hélène Clément

    Toby Cook

    Lotus de Vries

    Valentin Eichler

    Miguel Erlich

    Karolina Errera Pavon

    Stefanie Farrands

    Sara Ferrandez Castro

    Alexander Gordon

    Olga Hansen

    Stine Hasbirk

    Gabriele Heinecke

    Miriam Helms Alien

    Kyuri Kim

    Sejune Kim

    Georgy Kovalev

    Anna Krimm

    Hande Küden

    Josip Kvetek

    Adrien la Marca

    S. Seungwon Lee

    Marion Leleu

    Anna Lewis

    Matthew Lipman

    Mark Liu

    Lev Loiko

    Ana Mba-Flores

    Ada Myriel Meinich

    Giovanni Menna

    Johannes Moehrle

    Sindy Mohamed

    Nilay Özdemir

    Kyoungmin Park

    Yael Patish

    Tahlia Petrosian

    Anna Puig Torne

    Madeleine Przybyl

    Muriel Razavi

    Alejandro Regueira

    Pauline Sachse

    Teresa Schwamm

    Jungahn Shin

    Clara-Hélène Stangorra

    Arnold Stieve

    Maya Tal

    Antoine Tamestit

    German Tcakulov

    Kei Tojo

    Ulla Tremuth

    Albin Uusijärvi

    Simone von Rahden

    Emma Wernig

    Judith Wijzenbeek

    Zhechao Xie

    Peijun Xu

    Armando Yagüe

    Ula U. Zebriunaite

    Sarina Zickgraf

    Ylvali Zilliacus

    Silas Zschocke