Antonia Ohnimus

Antonia Ohnimus was born in Hamburg, in 1999 and received her first instruction on the violin with Prof. Petru Munteanu. She changed to the viola in 2016 and has studied since 2018 at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Prof. Hartmut Rohde, where she is currently working on her master's degree. Since 2022, she has substituted regularly with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Vienna Philharmonic, as well as with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. During the 2023/24 concert season she was a member of the academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She has also played as principal violist with, among others, the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. As a soloist she has performed with such orchestras as the Brandenburg Symphony, the Concertino Ensemble directed by Prof. Petru Munteanu, and the student orchestras of the University of the Arts in Berlin and the College of Music and Theater in Rostock.

Antonia Ohnimus has been a prizewinner at various national and international competitions, including a first prize at the Làszlò Spezzaferri International Music Competition in Verona, Italy, a second prize at the International Music Competition OPUS in Kraków, Poland, and several prizes and special prizes at the national Jugend musiziert competitions.

As part of her studies, Antonia has received regular instruction in chamber music with members of the Artemis Quartet and gained additional chamber music experience at the Møn Festival in Denmark in 2023 as well as at the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2022. She has been the beneficiary of several scholarships from the Youth Chamber Music Initiative in Hamburg and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. Her education has been augmented by regular studies with Tobias Lea (principal violist of the Vienna Philharmonic) and Prof. emeritus Hans Peter Ochsenhofer (University of Musik and Performing Arts in Vienna and Vienna Philharmonic), as well as at inspiring master classes such as those of Prof. Françoise Gnéri, Prof. Sergey Malov, Prof. Matthias Buchholz, Baiba Skride, Prof. Barbara Westphal, Prof. Lena Eckels, Prof. Erich Wolfgang Krüger, Prof. Jens Peter Maintz and Prof. Michel Lethiec.