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REUTER, SOPHIA
Sophia Reuter
Sophia Reuter, born in Dresden, comes from a family with a
long musical tradition. Her father Rolf Reuter is a conductor and grandfather
Fritz Reuter was a composer. At the age of five she began taking violin lessons
from Klaus Hertel at the Leipzig Mendelssohn Musikhochschule, and later studied
with Peter Tietze in Berlin. At the age of ten she was the youngest participant
and prize winner at the Leipzig Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, and in 1988
won first prize at the music competition in Weimar. From 1989 to 1993 she
studied with Alberto Lysy and Yehudi Menuhin at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad. Since then she has performed in many of the major music
centres in the world. Playing both the violin and viola, she has participated
in various chamber music festivals in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Argentina and the Far East, often together with colleagues of the highest
distinction. Since 1997 she has held a position as professor at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, also teaching at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She
has on several occasions played as a member of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. From 2003-2004 she led the viola section
of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and from January 2006 has served as
principal viola with the Duisburger Philharmoniker (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).
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