Pauline Sachse

In 2012 Pauline Sachse was appointed professor at the Carl Maria von Weber School of Music in Dresden and guest professor at the Academy of Music „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. Furthermore, she is principal violist of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Hamburg, she studied at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin and at the Yale University (USA) with Jesse Levine, Wilfried Strehle and Tabea Zimmermann, whose assistant she became in 2007. She won various competitions, for example the Lenzewski and Joseph Joachim Competition.

Much in demand as a chamber musician, she is performing with artists such as Isabelle Faust, Stella Doufexis, Tabea Zimmermann, Steven Isserlis, Gidon Kremer and Daniel Hope. Festival invitations have taken her to the „Salzburger Festspiele“, “Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern”, the „Schwetzinger Festspiele“, the “Heidelberger Frühling” and the Kronberg Academy's “Chamber Music Connects the World”.

In ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio and the Berlin Philharmonic, she worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle, and Seiji Ozawa.

Pauline Sachse has a diversified repertoire reflected in her discography. In addition to works by Schumann, Brahms and Hindemith, she has also undertaken several world premieres and first recordings, for example the "Hamlet Echoes" by Christian Jost.

She is playing on a viola built by Pietro Mantegazza in 1788.