Ulf Hoelscher

Ulf Hoelscher studied with Bruno Masurat in Heidelberg and Max Rostal at the Cologne Academy. He then went to the United States, where he completed his education with Josef Gingold at Indiana University in Bloomington and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His concert career has spanned some thirty years, during which he has played with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Paris. Hoelscher has worked with such renowned conductors as Gary Bertini, Andrew Davies, Kurt Masur, Vaclav Neumann and Horst Stein. In addition to the best-known violin concertos, Hoelscher has performed works by Korngold, Strauss, Schoeck and Benjamin Frankel, as well as making chamber music recordings of works by Bartok, Brahms, Franck and Hindemith. He has given the first performances of concertos by Ole Schmidt, Bulent Tarcan and Volker David Kirchner. Since 1981, Ulf Hoelscher has taught at the Karlsruhe Academy of Music.