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‘It feels like everything coming together in life’ - Carolin Widmann

2023-03-23T09:50:00

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The German violinist Carolin Widmann talks to David Kettle about returning to live performance and her commitment to new music

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It’s been five years since Munich-born violinist Carolin Widmann was last profiled in The Strad. Not a long time, you might think, though during that period, one huge global event has upended so much for so many. ‘To tell you the truth,’ Widmann confides, ‘with the Covid pandemic, I fell into a deep, black void. It made me hit rock bottom. And afterwards, it made me completely redefine who I want to be as an artist, and who you can be as an artist in society.’…

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