personal statement
Music is a living exchange between people. It moves, tells stories, and can create lasting change.
As a child, I began playing the violin to make music together with my family and friends. Experiencing music as a unifying force continues to shape my artistic work to this day.
In my solo performances, I seek direct communication with the audience and the creation of shared musical experiences. Even as a freelance concertmaster, I am particularly fascinated by the social and communicative aspects of making music. Working in an orchestra sharpens my senses and develops flexibility, sensitivity, and assertiveness.
My love for opera and orchestral sound stems from my early time in the children’s choir at the Semperoper Dresden, where I gained a special access to this imaginative world that continues to inspire me. The concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk runs through the programs I create, whether in duo projects with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, chamber music at the Heidelberger Frühling, or in innovative concert formats that leave a lasting impression on the audience. Creativity, communication, and the joy of making music together form the heart of my artistic work.
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“[…] She expressively pushes the boundaries of resolution.
At times it seems as if she is drifting or lifting off into other spheres, in the way that she senses every tiny impulse of the score, revives it, makes it vibrate.
This woman is a volcano. Fantastic. […]”
- Heidelberger Frühling/Stefan M. Dettlinger
“[…] The transition into the Passacaglia in G minor for Violin from the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber emerged as if cast from a single mold.
Violinist Charlotte Thiele let it resound from the center of the audience space in the Orangerie, imbuing it with a mystical, enigmatic hue.
Spiritual, poignant, and with strikingly clear contours, her interpretation resembled an introspective dialogue with herself, gazing deep into the soul. […]”
– Neuland Festival Darmstadt / Echo
Concerts
Biography
Charlotte Thiele, born in 2000 in Dresden, has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the
Dresden Philharmonic, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the
Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the
Anhalt Philharmonic Dessau, and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. Her concerts have
taken her to major venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the
Kulturpalast Dresden, the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, and the
Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie.
During the 2017/2018 and 2022/2023 seasons, Charlotte Thiele was Artist in Residence at the
IMPULS Festival for Contemporary Music and with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her particular passion lies in chamber music. Her musical partners include Patricia Kopatchinskaja,
Julia Hagen, Sharon Kam, Bryan Cheng, Alexey Stadler, Kiveli Dörken, Can Çakmur, Till Fellner,
and her brother Friedrich Thiele. She is a regular guest at festivals such as Heidelberger Frühling,
the IMPULS Festival, Neuland Festival Darmstadt, and the Weilburg Castle Concerts. In the
2024/2025 season, she made her chamber music debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and at
Kulturhaus Wiesbaden.
From 2023 to 2025, she has served as concertmaster of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy of the
Staatskapelle Dresden. In addition, she has been invited as guest concertmaster by ensembles
and orchestras such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Dresden
Philharmonic, the Musical Academy Mannheim, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the
Kammerakademie Potsdam, Ensemble Resonanz, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra
Heilbronn, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
Charlotte Thiele is also committed to creative and educational formats within the TONALi
initiative in Hamburg.
She has received important artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Gerhard Schulz, Christian
Tetzlaff, Julia Fischer, Augustin Hadelich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
A former junior student of Natalia Prischepenko at the University of Music Dresden, she is
currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar with Prof. Dr.
Friedemann Eichhorn. Charlotte Thiele plays on a Jean‑Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris 1871), provided
by a private patron
Interviews
2025
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
2024
Liszt Magazin
2017
"Volksstimme"
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright (European premiere)
Berlin Academy of American Music, Garrett Keast - conductor
Great Hall, Elbphilharmonie, 2024
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