Namibian violist Eike Coetzee leads an artistic life shaped by the constant interplay between chamber music, orchestral playing and solo performance.

As a scholarship holder of Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, 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 collaborated there with Gary Hoffmann, Gidon Kremer and Miklós Perényi, among others. Solo appearances include concerts with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra and the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra. He plays regularly with the Munich Philharmonic and took part as principal viola in the founding concert of the Orchestre Visionnaire at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Currently studying with Tabea Zimmermann at the HfMDK Frankfurt, Eike Coetzee is a prizewinner of the Grand Prix at the Szymon Goldberg International Competition as well as the Elsie Kühn-Leitz Scholarship.

Creating the music anew on stage every time lies close to his heart — allowing himself to be inspired and bringing his own impulses, so that the music becomes truly tangible in the moment.