Barbara Buntrock (18 February 1982) is a German violist and music educator. Born in Wuppertal, Buntrock received her first violin lessons at the age of five. Since 1991, she was a student of Maria Szabados-Racz at the Bergische Musikschule Wuppertal. She was five times first prize winner of the national Jugend musiziert competition. From 1998 to 2000, Buntrock was a member of the Bundesjugendorchester, most recently as deputy concertmaster. She began her viola studies in 2001 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Abteilung Wuppertal with Werner Dickel. Since the winter semester 2002/2003, she studied at the Lübeck Academy of Music with Barbara Westphal, where she received her concert diploma in July 2008. Supported by the Gerd Bucerius Scholarship of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, she spent a year abroad (September 2005 to May 2006) at the Juilliard School in New York City with Heidi Castleman. Afterwards, she completed additional studies at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Lars Anders Tomter with the aim of obtaining her Konzertexamen. Buntrock was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She also attended master classes at the Verbier Festival, the International Music Academy of Switzerland and with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet), Gábor Takács-Nagy, Lukas Hagen (Hagen Quartet) and Eberhard Feltz. More information...
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