Violinist Roberta Verna will begin her trial process in September 2025
’I’m thrilled to tell you that I will officially start my trial as first Concertmaster at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin from September 2025,’ violinist Roberta Verna wrote on social media.
’I am truly honoured to receive this opportunity and happy to share these news here. Looking forward to a very new chapter in my life.’
Verna will take on the new role having previously served as concertmaster of the Copenhagen Philharmonic, to which she was appointed in 2021 at the age of 22. She has previously been concertmaster of the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra and worked as violinist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra Academy, European Philharmonic of Switzerland and the Utopia Orchestra.
Verna studied the violin with Daniel Gaede at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, and since 2017 with Herwig Sack of the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. In 2017 she was awarded the City of Würzburg’s Culture Prize along with her cellist brother, Richard Verna.
As prizewinner of the German Musical Instrument Fund competition, Verna has played on a 1703 Stradivari violin provided by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben (DSM) since 2017.
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