Rosa Donata Milton won her first audition at the age of just 23 and has been Deputy 1st Concertmaster of the Jena Philharmonic since 2004.

She is active as a soloist with various orchestras in Germany and abroad, as a chamber and orchestral musician, and as a teacher. She has played in chamber orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Camerata Bern. She has also been engaged as a guest concertmaster to substitute with the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg-Gera, the Saarland State Theater, the Anhalt Philharmonic Orchestra Dessau, and others.

Since 2008 she has held a teaching position at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. In addition, she teaches as part of her mentorship in the Dual Orchestra Academy of Thuringia. At the age of four, Rosa Donata Milton received her first violin lessons from Martin Höfler. She then transferred to the Lahr/Black Forest Music School in the class of Gesa Ruprecht, where she also received chamber music lessons. Pianistically she was coached by Peter Szaunig.

At the age of eight she participated for the first time in an international master class with Prof. Wolfgang Marschner. From that time on he took her into the Pflüger Foundation in Freiburg, where he taught her together with Ariane Mathäus and was her teacher and mentor until she was 17. He attached great importance to her receiving other important musical impulses as well, and so she also continued to be trained and encouraged in the subjects of piano, singing, chamber music and composition, and was awarded prizes in these areas as well.

She completed her violin studies, which she began in 1996 with Prof. Jost Witter at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, with the highest grade of 1.0. Afterwards she studied in the master class of Prof. Jost Witter and finished this postgraduate studies with the soloist degree "Konzertexamen". Throughout her violin training she regularly participated in international master classes with Rainer Kussmaul, Ruggiero Ricci, Igor Ozim, Valeri Gradow, Ida Haendel, Saschko Gawriloff, Norbert Brainin, Thomas Brandis and others. She received chamber music impulses from Robert Sladek, Ferenc Rados, the Amadeus Quartet and the Abegg Trio.

Already at the age of ten Rosa Donata Milton won the 1st prize as well as a promotional prize at the International Spohr Violin Competition. This was the prelude to several international awards and prizes.

She is the winner of the Stennebrüggen Prize of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Eduard Söring Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Leonberg Music Prize, among others. She was a scholarship holder of the Pflüger Foundation Freiburg, the International Carl Flesch Academy and received a graduate scholarship from the Free State of Thuringia.

A renowned interpreter of the great violin concertos of the 20th century (Barber, Bernstein, Korngold, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Vasks), some of her concerts have been broadcast live by MDR Kultur, Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutschlandfunk.

Furthermore, radio and television recordings at SWR, BR, Arte, 3sat, MDR, Deutschlandradio Berlin, Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur attest to her success.

Rosa Donata Milton plays, depending on the composition, a Vuillaume violin, an instrument by François Caussin "Ex-Leila Josefowicz" as well as a violin by the master violin maker Benjamin Banks from 1766, also known as the English "Amati".