Anne-Kathrin Lindig (Germany, Jury chairperson)

Violinist and professor of violin Anne-Kathrin Lindig first attended the special school at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig before transferring to the special school at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT in Weimar - now the Schloss Belvedere Music High School - in 1976.
She began her violin and chamber music studies at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT in 1980. From 1986, she herself taught at the university in Weimar, initially as an assistant. She has held the professorship for violin since 1993. Parallel to her teaching activities, Anne-Kathrin Lindig was Artistic Director at the Schloss Belvedere Music High School, Vice Rector and later Vice President for Artistic Practice at the University of Music in Weimar. She has been President of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar since 2022.
As primaria of her string quartet, as a chamber musician in various formations and as a member of several chamber orchestras, she has performed numerous concerts in Germany and abroad, for example in Poland, Hungary, Russia, Spain, Korea, France and Cuba. Since 2014, she has been the artistic director and jury chairwoman of the International JOSEPH JOACHIM Competition | Chamber Music in Weimar.
Anne-Kathrin Lindig is frequently active as a juror at national and international competitions and master classes as well as a lecturer in the field of child and youth development.
She is not the only one with numerous successes to her name. Her students have won over 100 prizes at the national Jugend musiziert competition and many other national and international violin and chamber music competitions. Today, her students hold positions in renowned orchestras worldwide, as sought-after chamber musicians, professors and teachers in music schools.