Barbara Buntrock

Violist Barbara Buntrock won her country's popular Jugeng musiziert ("Youth Making Music") competition five times during her student years. In tandem with her competition wins, Buntrock served as a member of Germany's Bundesjugendorchester from 1998 to 2000, rising to the rank of deputy concertmaster. In 2001, Buntrock switched to the viola. She released her debut recording in 2011, joining the Leipziger Streichquartett on an album of Beethoven string quintets. In 2009 and 2010, Buntrock was first solo violist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In her hometown of Wuppertal, Buntrock founded the chamber music series Festival 3 at the city's Immanuelskirche. She has been professor of viola at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf since 2015. In 2024, Buntrock was heard on the album Serenade for clarinet and strings: Krenek, Gál, Penderecki.