Indira Koch
violin
Indira Koch was born in the USA , grew up in Switzerland and stems from an Indian-German background. She is the artistic director and concertmaster of the Kammerphilharmonie Metamorphosen Berlin, which she founded together with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in 2009. Three CD recordings released by Sony Classical received international acclaim. Concert tours have taken the chamber orchestra to Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, as well as to the music centers of Germany performing at the Musikfest Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie and the Berlin Philharmonie. Indira has performed several works written especially for her by Enjott Schneider and Helmut Abel. She is concertmaster at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 25 years and has been a guest concertmaster with the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the World Peace Orchestra and played as member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Indira Koch is equally passionate about chamber music. She is a member of the Gropius Quartet. The Gropius Quartet recently gave concerts with artists such as Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. It also premiered works by Sir Karl Jenkins, Enjott Schneider, Burkhard Egdorf and Georg Alexander Albrecht and took part in Camille Thomas' Chopin Project for Deutsche Grammophon. The Gropius Quartet has recorded works by Fazil Say for Naxos (including the world premiere recording of "Leopards") and a CD with works by Mendelssohn, Albrecht and Dvorak for Hänssler.
Indira Koch studied at the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Aaron Rosand and the Juilliard School in New York with Robert Mann. In addition, Indira received valuable impulses through master classes with important artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Miriam Fried, Franco Gulli, Rainer Kussmaul, Josef Silberstein and Alberto Lysy.
During her studies, she attracted attention at numerous international competitions, including first prize at the "Citta di Stresa" International Violin Competition in Italy. In 1997, she won the coveted Artist International Award in New York. This success was accompanied by a debut concert in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in New York, highly praised by the international press. Since then, Indira has toured Europe, India, Japan, South Africa and North and South America, Australia, performing in famous concert halls such as Tokyo's Suntory Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. She has appeared as soloist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Indira Koch is equally passionate about chamber music. She is a member of the Gropius Quartet. The Gropius Quartet recently gave concerts with artists such as Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. It also premiered works by Sir Karl Jenkins, Enjott Schneider, Burkhard Egdorf and Georg Alexander Albrecht and took part in Camille Thomas' Chopin Project for Deutsche Grammophon. The Gropius Quartet has recorded works by Fazil Say for Naxos (including the world premiere recording of "Leopards") and a CD with works by Mendelssohn, Albrecht and Dvorak for Hänssler.
Indira Koch studied at the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Aaron Rosand and the Juilliard School in New York with Robert Mann. In addition, Indira received valuable impulses through master classes with important artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Miriam Fried, Franco Gulli, Rainer Kussmaul, Josef Silberstein and Alberto Lysy.
During her studies, she attracted attention at numerous international competitions, including first prize at the "Citta di Stresa" International Violin Competition in Italy. In 1997, she won the coveted Artist International Award in New York. This success was accompanied by a debut concert in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in New York, highly praised by the international press. Since then, Indira has toured Europe, India, Japan, South Africa and North and South America, Australia, performing in famous concert halls such as Tokyo's Suntory Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. She has appeared as soloist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.