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Sarah Christian appointed Professor of Violin

Sarah Christian appointed Professor of Violin

18. July ’25

Our university has appointed Sarah Christian as Professor of Violin. She will take up her position at HMTM on 1 October 2025.

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 (German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra) since 2013. From 2019 to 2025, she was Professor of Violin at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart.

Sarah Christian on her start at HMTM:
»I’m really looking forward to working with the students. I want to be there for them and do my best. I want to encourage them to follow their own personal musical path and to dare to find their own voice and make it heard – especially in today’s society. And I hope to make a lot of chamber music together.«

Sarah Christian has received numerous awards. She gained international attention in 2017 as 2nd prize winner of the ARD International Music Competition, where she also received the Audience Award and the Special Prize of the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Her previous competition successes include the Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), the International Johannes Brahms Competition Pörtschach and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin. In 2008 she was honoured with the Yehudi Menuhin Medal and the title »Best String Player of the Year« at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.

As a soloist, Sarah Christian has performed with the Camerata Salzburg, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra), the Münchener Kammerorchester (Munich Chamber Orchestra), the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and at Carnegie Hall with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester (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 honoured with the Opus Klassik 2020 award.

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