Alumna Friederike Starkloff appointed to professorship in Stuttgart

Friederike Starkloff

The violinist, Eisler graduate and former assistant to Prof. Antje Weithaas has been Professor of Violin at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart since the winter semester 2024/25.

Friederike Starkloff studied at the Eisler in Antje Weithaas' class and held a teaching position as an assistant from 2017 to 2022. Born in Chemnitz in 1990, she received violin lessons at the Pflüger Foundation in Freiburg at the age of five, began her bachelor's degree with Rainer Kussmaul at the Freiburg University of Music and moved to the Eisler in 2012, where she completed a bachelor's and master's degree, which she then supplemented with an additional master's degree in concertmaster/solo.

In 2015, at the age of 24, she became 1st concertmaster of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hanover, making her the youngest concertmaster of a radio orchestra in Germany at the time. In 2023, she moved to the Basel Symphony Orchestra in the same position.

Friederike Starkloff has won prizes at several prestigious international competitions. She won 3rd prize at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris in 2014 and 3rd prize at the Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2015.

Even before her appointment at the HMDK Stuttgart, she gained experience as a violin teacher. She has taught at the University of Music, Theatre and Media in Hanover and since 2023 at the Pflüger Foundation for the Promotion of Young Violinists.