personal statement
Music connects.
As a child, I started playing the violin because I wanted to make music together with my family and friends. My love of opera and orchestral sound goes back to my time in the children's choir of the Semperoper Dresden, and it has stayed with me ever since.
In solo recitals, what matters most to me is direct communication with the audience, creating something new together in the moment.
As a freelance concertmaster, I'm drawn above all to the social, communicative side of music-making. The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art, runs through my own programs, whether in duo projects with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, in chamber music at Heidelberger Frühling, or in concert formats at Beethovenfest Bonn.
What matters to me is that every program becomes an experience that stays with the audience.
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All photos on this website are taken by Andrej Grilc.
“[…] 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 the Heidelberger Frühling, the IMPULS Festival, the Neuland Festival Darmstadt, the Weilburg Castle Concerts, and Chamber Music Connects the World, the renowned festival of the Kronberg Academy.
In the 2024/2025 season, she made her chamber music debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and at
Kurhaus Wiesbaden. In the 2026/2027 season, she is being supported as a participant in the Talents Programme of the Beethovenfest Bonn, within which she will give several concerts.
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 NDR Radio philharmonic, 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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