Johanne Klein

Johanne Maria Klein began studying violin – initially as a junior student – with Prof. Anke Dill at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2012, she continued her studies with Prof. Detlef Hahn at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and from 2014 she studied with Prof. Stephan Picard at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where she completed her master's degree in violin in 2019.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, the Academic Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart, the Weinstadt Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Rheingau in venues such as the As a soloist, she has performed with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Academic Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart, the Weinstadt Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Rheingau in venues such as the Liederhalle Stuttgart. In 2017, she performed Johannes Brahms' violin concerto as soloist with the Bergisch Gladbach Symphony Orchestra at the Forum Leverkusen.

As a passionate chamber musician and first violinist of the Pierrot Quartet, she has appeared at festivals such as the Trondheim International Chamber Music Festival, the Davos Festival and the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, and has won prizes at the International Orlando Chamber Music Competition, the Oslo Kammermusikk-Konkurransen, the Carl Wendling Chamber Music Competition and the Lions Clubs Stuttgart Competition. With the Pierrot Quartet, she studied intensively with Prof. Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet), Prof. Gerhard Schulz (Alban Berg Quartet) and Prof. Stefan Fehlandt (Vogler Quartet). Eberhard Feltz and Pierre Colombet (Quatuor Ebène) provided further important artistic inspiration. From 2016 to 2018, Johanne Klein was a scholarship holder at the Ferenc Fricsay Orchestra Academy of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. After contracts with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in 2020 and as deputy principal second violinist with the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe in 2021/2022, she has been a permanent member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since 2023.

Johanne Maria Klein plays a violin by Giacinto Ruggeri, built in Cremona in 1694.