Viola
Neue Musikzeitung
Namibian violist Eike Coetzee leads an artistic life shaped by the constant interplay between chamber music, orchestral playing and solo work.
As a fellow of Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate, he performs with musicians such as Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Marc Bouchkov and Jens Peter Maintz. A regular guest at the Kronberg Academy, he has played there with Gary Hoffmann, Gidon Kremer and Miklós Perényi, among others. As a soloist, he has performed with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra and the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra. He regularly plays with the Munich Philharmonic and served as solo violist at the inaugural concert of the Orchestre Visionnaire at Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
He currently studies with Tabea Zimmermann at HfMDK Frankfurt and is a prize winner of the Grand Prix at the Szymon Goldberg International Competition as well as a recipient of the Elsie Kühn-Leitz Scholarship.
Eike Coetzee is committed to recreating music on stage anew each time – to allow himself to be inspired and to bring his own impulses, so that it becomes genuinely experiential in the moment.
