Roberta Verna

Violinist Roberta Verna (*1998) comes from a family of musicians and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. At just nine years old, she was admitted as a junior student to the Pre-College program of the University of Music Würzburg, studying with Max Speermann. She later continued her studies with Prof. Daniel Gaede at the University of Music Nuremberg and completed her bachelor’s degree under Prof. Herwig Zack at the University of Music Würzburg.

She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. In 2017, she received the Cultural Promotion Award of the City of Würzburg together with her brother, cellist Richard Verna, as the youngest recipients.

Roberta Verna made her solo debut with orchestra at the age of 14 with the Thüringen Philharmonie under Russel Harris. She has since performed with the Philharmonie Würzburg, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Klassik Philharmonie Hamburg, the Queensland Youth Orchestra, among others. Numerous solo recitals have taken her to festivals such as the Kissinger Winterzauber, the Arbanassi Summermusic Festival in Bulgaria, “Masterclasses Vienna”, the Kronberg Academy, the Eggenfelden Klassisch Festival, the Schackenborg Musikfestival, the Engadin Festival in Switzerland, and the Mozartfest Würzburg.

She has gained additional artistic impulses in masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Gil Shaham, Saschko Gavrilow, Pierre Amoyal, Rolande Daugareil, Irvine Arditti, Gerhard Schulz, Boris Brovtsyn, and many others. Roberta Verna is increasingly in demand as a chamber and orchestral musician. Even in her youth, she gathered important orchestral experience in ensembles like the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra (then as concertmaster), the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the European Philharmonic of Switzerland, and the Lied Festival St. Moritz. This led to early collaborations with renowned conductors and artists such as Mariss Jansons, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Teodor Currentzis, Jonathan Nott, Martha Argerich, Charles Dutoit, Maria João Pires, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Alexandra Conunova, Tobias Feldmann, John Axelrod, Vladimir Jurowsky, Lorenzo Viotti, Christian Thielemann, Christoph Eschenbach, and many more.

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