Sophia Herbig is a versatile musician who dedicates herself equally to chamber music and orchestral playing. She constantly strives to deepen her understanding of music and consistently follows her own path in approaching compositions, working processes and concert formats.

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Sophia has been fortunate to work in various chamber music formations with wonderful musicians such as Lorenza Borrani, William Coleman, Roel Dieltiens, Lily Francis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Alina Pogostkina, Rainer Schmidt and Dmitry Smirnov.

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She regularly performs with Ensemble Tamangur, Spira Mirabilis and Patrick Leung. Her appearances include the Beethovenfest Bonn, Innsbrucker Promenadenkonzerte, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Pau Casals Festival and Salzburger Festspiele. Her recordings and concerts have been broadcast by BR, WDR, ORF and Catalunya Música.

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She has performed with some of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Academy 2017–2019) and Utopia.

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Since being appointed leader of the second violins at Mozarteumorchester Salzburg in 2019, Sophia has been invited to take on this position with several orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Münchener Kammerorchester and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, among others.

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Highlights of recent years have included several solo performances with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg: Vivaldi’s Primavera under the direction of Reinhard Goebel, as well as Mozart’s Serenata notturna as part of the solo ensemble alongside Lorenza Borrani and Roberto González-Monjas, as well as under the batons of Ivor Bolton, Maxim Emelyanychev and Manfred Honeck in various concerts.

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In addition, Sophia has performed violin concertos by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Khachaturian with conductors including Yoel Gamzou, Simon Edelmann, Fuad Ibrahimov, Stefan Schilli, Ulrich Weder and Johannes Zahn, and with orchestras such as Neue Philharmonie München, Sinfonietta Isartal and the Academy Orchestra of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

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Her influential teachers have included Rainer Schmidt, as well as Wonji Kim-Ozim and Igor Ozim at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Lorenza Borrani at Scuola di Musica Fiesole, Meesun Hong-Coleman at Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz and Sonja Korkeala at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

 

Sophia plays violins by Vlado Tilev and Philipp Bonhoeffer.