Linus Roth was born on 1977 and is a German classical violinist and string pedagogue.
11 Facts About Linus Roth
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Linus Roth has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.
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Linus Roth has been a teacher at the Leopold Mozart Centre, and artistic director of music festivals.
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Linus Roth studied the violin at the Musikhochschule Lubeck with Zakhar Bron from 1983 to 1986, and later with Ana Chumachenco in Zurich and Munich, graduating with a soloist diploma.
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Linus Roth continued his studies with a scholarship of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
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Linus Roth received a second Echo Klassik award in 2017 for a recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 2, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Sanderling.
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Linus Roth has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Munchener Kammerorchester and the SWR Symphonieorchester.
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Linus Roth has worked as a violin teacher at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg since 2012.
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In 2019, Linus Roth was the artistic director of the 10th Internationaler Violinwettbewerb Leopold Mozart Augsburg.
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Linus Roth founded the music festival Ibiza Concerts on Ibiza in 2014, and has been the artistic director of the Schwabischer Fruhling festival in Ochsenhausen since 2017.
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Linus Roth plays the 1703 Dancla Stradivarius, on loan from Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg.