Robert Einenkel

Robert Einenkel was born into a musical family in 2000 in Hannover, Germany, and began playing the violin at the age of four. After early studies with Prof. Adam Kostecki at the College of Music, Theater and Media (HMTM) in Hannover, he completed his bachelor in violin with Prof. Petru Munteanu at the Leopold Mozart College of Music in Augsburg. He then completed an artist's diploma in violin performance at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. Ioana Cristina Goicea. During the 2025/26 season he also studied in the Advanced Concertmaster Program of the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona.

In 2024, Robert Einenkel won the first prize and the Alfred Huber Special Prize at the Stephanie Hohl Competition in Vienna. He has also been a prize winner at additional national and international competitions, among them the first prize and the Special Jury Prize at the Basel International Online Violin Competition 2023, the third prize and two special prizes for the best sonata and best interpretation of a commissioned work (Schachtner Prize) at the International Violin Competition at Kloster Schöntal 2019, the first prize at the Lions Competition 2016 in Lower Saxony as well as several prizes at the German national competition Jugend musiziert. In addition, he has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Stendal.

Robert Einenkel has gathered important orchestral experience while substituting as third concertmaster with the Vienna Symphony and in the first violin section of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg. He has also performed several times as concertmaster of the Webern Symphony Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus. Robert has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and concertmaster and soloist with the Concertino Ensemble Augsburg. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra of the HMTM Hannover and the Symphony Orchestra Deutscher Lions e.V.

Robert Einenkel has received additional artistic inspiration from, among others, Salvatore Accardo, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Prof. Kolja Blacher, Prof. Albena Danailova, Vesko Eschkenazy, Augustin Hadelich, Prof. Dalibor Karvay, Jiyoon Lee, Laura Marzadori, Andrea Obiso, Prof. Paul Roczek, Prof. Fedor Rudin, Roman Simovic, Prof. Anton Sorokow, Prof. Axel Strauss and Prof. Krzysztof Węgrzyn.