Jonas Zschenderlein
Violin
Born and raised in Koblenz, Jonas Zschenderlein began playing the violin at the age of five and discovered the baroque violin at the age of eleven.
He performed with professional baroque ensembles as a teenager and founded his own ensemble 4 Times Baroque.
From 2008 to 2014, Jonas was a member and alternating concertmaster of the Bachs Erben youth baroque orchestra, which usually performs without a conductor and is supervised by members of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
At the 2012 German Music Competition in Bonn, he and the baroque ensemble Concerto +14 were accepted as scholarship holders into the 57th Federal Selection of Concerts by Young Artists.
He currently performs, also as a soloist or concertmaster, with internationally renowned ensembles and chamber music formations from Europe, including Gaechinger Cantorey (Bachakademie Stuttgart), The English Concert, Dunedin Consort, Dorothee Oberlinger (Ensemble 1700) and Il Pomo d’Oro. Concert tours have taken him all over Europe, as well as to Japan, Korea, China, the USA, Canada and South America. Performances as a chamber musician or soloist at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Philharmonie de Paris and in almost all major concert halls in Germany.
Jonas was a junior student at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis and Sebastian Gottschick from 2009 to 2013.
His baroque violin studies took him to Prof. François Fernandez at the CNSNDP (Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris) and to the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Pauline Nobes).
He has also worked closely with musicians such as Riccardo Minasi, Petra Müllejans, Maurice Steger and Hans-Christoph Rademann.
Together with harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen, he recorded a CD with works by Bach, Corelli, Westhoff and Montanari, which was released in August 2018 on the German harmonia mundi label and received positive international reviews.
He plays an undated, anonymous violin, most of whose parts are Italian and which was made around 1750.
As a passionate cyclist, Jonas finds balance and inspiration for his work in the mountains and forests.