German violinist; took the concert examination after studies with Igor Ozim in Cologne and with Ricardo Odnoposoff, Wilhelm Melcher and Joachim Schall in Stuttgart. She has played contemporary music with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble musikFabrik and led Ensemble gelberklang, whose string players formed the HELIOS Quartett; in 2008 she gave the world premiere of Saed Haddad’s “Les Deux Visages de l’Orient” for solo violin at the ECLAT festival in Stuttgart. In 2005 she founded the association Open_Music for free improvisation with young people with Scott Roller and Michael Kiedaisch; it has twice won the federal prize Kinder zum Olymp. Since 2019 she has been a permanent member of the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. With Ensemble gelberklang she recorded the albums New Chamber Music: Works by Jens Joneleit (2002), Colours of Silence (2003) and Oscar van Dillen: de Stad (2003) for Cybele.
Ulrike Stortz
Violin / Direction
