After graduating with a Master’s Degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London (Prof. Rodney Friend) with a DipRAM Diploma and Distinction, Johanna Röhrig is now completing her Artist Diploma at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Hamburg, while performing internationally as a soloist and recitalist.
Highlights of the past few years have included her debut at the MUK Lübeck with the Orchester des Wandels as well as engagements with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John’s in England, Spain and Germany, among others. She performed on a television broadcast with the PKOW Wernigerode and appeared in the NDR Kultur Klassik à la Carte show with pianist Hubert Rutkowski, next to various other streams and shows in the Glocke Bremen, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the concert hall of the UDK Berlin or the Bavaria Studios in Munich, where she performed with Dennis Alexander Volk and his Storytelling Piano programme.
The young violinist can already look back on extensive concert experience with internationally renowned orchestras,conductors and music partners. As a soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the NDR Hannover, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock or the Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, as well as numerous other orchestras in Europe.
In 2016, the German violinist won second prize at the International Competition Cittá di Padova in Italy, followed by several concert invitations to Northern Italy. She was also awarded first prize in the competition of the Internationale Fruehlingsakademie in Neustadt / Weinstraße (2014) and third prize in the competition for the LIONS Music Prize (2016). As a finalist in the 2017 Croydon Concerto Competition in London, she has been invited to several solo engagements with various English orchestras.
Chamber music is a great passion of hers; highlights include the 40th Petworth Festival (England), the Hamburger Kultursommer in Hamburg and the AURORA Chamber Music Festival in Sweden, along with other recitals in Germany, England and Austria, in which she appeared with musicians such as Markus Schirmer, Lawrence Power and as well as pianist Aleksandra Myslek (London), with whom she appears regularly in recitals in England and Germany.
Invitations to work as concertmaster in chamber orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Rungholt Ensemble or the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie took her to concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. As part of these projects and to complement her teaching activity she also works as a teacher at the HFMTM Hanover.
As part of the CD recording Epic Orchestra for the international label SONY, Johanna made her debut as a soloist with NDR Hannover and conductor Michael England; recorded as part of SONY’s New Sound of Classical series. Further releases through MUDI Productions (Kassel) or in cooperation with YAMAHA followed.
A great passion of the classically influenced artist are cross-genre projects in which elements from music, drama, video, etc. are interwoven together (see projects). The violinist implements these drafts of her own design at a high level, collaborating with artists including the QUARTONAL quartet or composer Jonathan Emilian Heck. Her projects have found support through the NEUSTART KULTUR scholarships of the Deutsche Musikrat or the GVL multiple times, as well as an artist residency in Naples with the Institut Francais.
In November 2023, fragments of the project gestern.hoffen.morgen were heard at the MUK Lübeck as part of the climate concert by the musicaetcetera theme agency, with which she has been working closely for several years to bring forward her social-environmental interest.
A cooperation with the musical instrument manufacturer YAMAHA, which provides her with an electric violin (YSV-250) and other technical equipment, also proves her wide-ranging musical interest, for which Johanna has already performed multiple times with the international DJ Duo Vini Vici, at the Docks Hamburg or the Airbeat Festival 2024.
Johanna Röhrig was born in Hamburg on January 9th, 1993, and began taking violin lessons at the age of six, supported by the Hans Kauffmann Foundation and the Feldmann Kulturell Foundation. As a winner of the Ethel Kennedy Jacobs Award, she completed her Master’s Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, further funded by the Oscar Vera Ritter Foundation (Hamburg) and private sponsors, as well as the Thörl Foundation, the Theodor Rogler Foundation and the Hamburger Studierendenwerk (Fritz Prosiegel scholarship).
Master classes, among others with Stephan Picard, Ulf Hoelscher, Elisabeth Kufferath, Nicola Benedetti and Petru Munteanu, complement her varied training, with further impulses from Prof. Erich Grünberg and Baiba Skride.
Johanna currently plays a 1686 Andrea Guarneri violin, on loan from the Beares International Violin Society in London.