Prof. Florian Richter

Florian Richter, born in Oschatz in 1985, received his first violin lessons from Prof. Klaus Hertel at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. In 2000, he switched to the viola and in 2001 to the Schloss Belvedere Music High School in Weimar in the class of Prof Erich Wolfgang Krüger.

From 2004 to 2014, the multiple national prizewinner of "Jugend musiziert" studied at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar with Prof. Ditte Leser / Prof. Erich Krüger and completed his training with a concert exam. 

He also received important musical impulses in masterclasses with Prof Alfred Lipka, Prof Dietmar Hallmann, Prof Hartmut Rohde, Prof Martin Spangenberg and Prof Norbert Brainin, among others. Florian Richter was a scholarship holder of the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation, the German Foundation for Musical Life and the Carl Flesch Academy. As a soloist, he has performed under the direction of Johannes Klumpp, Helmuth Rilling, Stefan Solyom, Michael Sanderling and Marek Janowski, among others. 

Florian Richter has been principal violist of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since August 2017. In January 2020, he made his solo debut there under the baton of Bruno Weil. Previously—from 2010 to 2012—Florian Richter served as principal violist of the Staatskapelle Weimar, and from 2012 to 2017 in the same position with the Stuttgart State Orchestra.

From 2017 to 2024, Florian Richter accepted a position at the Nuremberg University of Music, where he served as professor of viola. Since April 2024, he has been teaching as professor of viola at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar.