Jonathan Schwarz
violin
Born 1996 in Lübeck, Germany, Jonathan Schwarz received his first violin lessons as a student of Vladislav Goldfeld before he became a student at the age of 14 in the class of Heime Müller at the Musikhochschule Lübeck as part of the young students program. Since 2015 he has been studying with Nora Chastain at the University of Arts Berlin where he is currently persuing his Master‘s degree.
Jonathan Schwarz had an early passion for playing in the orchestra and served as concertmaster as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany which led to involvements in CD productions and radio recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon and German broadcasters. He received additional orchestra experience in the festival orchestra of the Pacific Music Festival, Anima Eterna Brugge, Eroica Berlin, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and especially from 2020-2022 as a member of the Karajan Academy with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Jonathan Schwarz is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and plays on a fine JB Guadagnini on generous loan through the Beare’s International Violin Society.