About me

The German violinist Norman Alexander Spaeth is a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including multiple first prizes at the national competition “Jugend musiziert”, finalist of the International Grumiaux Violin Competition in Brussels, as well as winner of the “Ruggiero Ricci” university competition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg (2025). In 2023, he was also awarded the sponsorship prize of the Tyrolean Classical Instrumentalist Award.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Orchestra of the Philharmonie Bad Reichenhall, the Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra Innstrumenti, the Webern Chamber Philharmonic of the mdw, the Innphilharmonie Rosenheim, as well as the Geringas Chamber Orchestra in Berlin. As a prizewinner of the selection competition of the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he appeared in July 2025 as soloist with the Webern Chamber Philharmonic of the mdw under the direction of Vladimir Kiradjiev in Baden. This concert was presented to a wide audience as part of the ORF Lower Austria benefit concert for “Licht ins Dunkel” and will be broadcast by ORF Lower Austria at the end of 2025.

Born in 2003, Spaeth began his artistic training as a pre-college student at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Annelie Gahl (2013–2016) and in private lessons with Kathryn Krueger in Vienna. He is also pursuing his bachelor’s degree at the Mozarteum, first with Pierre Amoyal and Esther Hoppe, and since 2022 with Hagai Shaham. Among his formative teachers is also Kirill Troussov, with whom he has studied regularly in Munich since 2017. He has further received artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Vadim Gluzman, Daniel Hope, Christoph Poppen, Natalia Prischepenko, Paul Roczek, Benjamin Schmid, Daniel Müller-Schott, Erik Schumann, Ingolf Turban, and Maxim Vengerov.

Chamber music is of particular importance to him: in 2018, he took part in the chamber music project “Mit Musik Miteinander” of the Kronberg Academy, where he performed with, among others, Andrej Bielow, Julian Arp, and Adrien Boisseau.

Norman Spaeth plays a violin made by the Rosenheim-based luthier Bernd Ellinger.