Prof. Sarah Christian

Sarah Christian studied with Igor Ozim at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Antje Weithaas at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where she was Weithaas’s assistant from 2013 to 2016.

In addition to her busy concert schedule as a soloist and chamber musician, Sarah Christian has been first concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonic since 2024. She has held the same position with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen since 2013. From 2019 to 2025, she was professor of violin at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart.
Since the 2025/2026 winter semester, she has held a Professorship for Violin at the University of Music and Theatre Munich.

Sarah Christian has won numerous awards. She gained international attention in 2017 as the second prize winner of the ARD Music Competition, where she also received the audience prize and the special prize of the Munich Chamber Orchestra. She has enjoyed earlier competition successes at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin, among others. In 2008, she was awarded the Yehudi Menuhin Medal and the title of »Best String Player of the Year« at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Sarah Christian has performed as a soloist with the Camerata Salzburg, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and, at Carnegie Hall, with the Bavarian State Orchestra.

Sarah Christian has performed as a chamber musician at festivals such as SPANNUNGEN: in Heimbach, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. In Augsburg, she founded her own chamber music series together with Maximilian Hornung. With the Franz Ensemble, which she initiated, she devotes herself in particular to rarely performed repertoire works; the first album with works by Ferdinand Ries (MDG) was awarded the Opus Klassik 2020.