Linus Roth, who received the ECHO KLASSIK Award as ‘Best Newcomer’ for his début CD on the label EMI, was awarded his second ECHO award for his recording of the violin concertos by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with the London Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Sanderling.
Linus Roth has made a name for himself internationally, not just with his acclaimed work in core repertoire, but also with his discovery / rediscovery of works that have undeservedly fallen into oblivion. He has devoted special attention to the works of Mieczysław Weinberg, both on the concert platform and the recording studio. Roth’s recording of the complete works for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg, released in 2013 by Challenge Classics to wide public and critical acclaim was followed up by recordings of Weinberg’s Violin Concerto with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester and his Concertino with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. Both CDs were selected as ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine. Making Mieczysław Weinberg’s oeuvre known to a wider audience is also the aim of the International Weinberg Society, which Linus Roth founded in 2015. For the 100th anniversary of Weinberg’s birth in 2019, Linus Roth curated a series of events dedicated to the composer in the form of six concerts at Wigmore Hall in London.
Linus has played as soloist with orchestras including the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, argovia philharmonic, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the radio symphony orchestras of broadcaster SWR and Berlin, the Orquesta de Cordoba, the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Bruckner Orchester Linz. The conductors with whom he has worked include Gerd Albrecht, Frank Beermann, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Finnegan Downie Dear, Dennis Russell Davies, Kevin John Edusei, Dan Ettinger, James Gaffigan, Hartmut Haenchen, Domonkos Héja, Antony Hermus, Manfred Honeck, Kirill Karabits, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Mihkel Kütson, Leo McFall, Thomas Sanderling, Konstantin Trinks, and Antoni Wit.
s a passionate chamber musician, he has performed with Nicolas Altstaedt, Gautier Capuçon, Kim Kashkashian, Albrecht Mayer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Andreas Ottensamer, Benjamin Schmid, Christian Poltéra, Julian Steckel, Markus Schirmer, Julien Quentin, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jens-Peter Maintz, Florian Uhlig, Itamar Golan and Danjulo Ishizakaand José Gallardo
among others.
Linus Roth attended the preparatory class of Prof. Nicolas Chumachenco at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, before going on to study with Prof. Zakhar Bron. Subsequently, he pursued his studies for several years with Prof. Ana Chumachenco at the Universities of Music in Zurich and Munich. Salvatore Accardo, Miriam Fried and Josef Rissin have also been important influences on him. During his studies, Linus Roth held a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
In October 2012, Linus Roth was appointed Professor of Violin at the ‘Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum’ at Augsburg University and was also the artistic director of the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Augsburg. In addition, Linus Roth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Festival Ibiza Concerts and from 2020 on of the music festival Schwäbischer Frühling in Ochsenhausen in Germany.
In the 2024/25 artistic season, Linus Roth’s highlights will include a series of performances of Weinberg’s Violin Concerto in Israel, Poland, and Germany, performances with the MDR Sinfonieorchester and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, a European tour with the Johann Sebastian Rio orchestra, the release of a new album with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for violin and guitar, and concerts with Petrit Çeku.
Linus Roth plays the Stradivarius violin ‘Dancla’ from 1703 on kind loan from the music foundation of the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.
His stylistic knowledge is highly developed and his open, charismatic personality convinces me every time I hear him.
Anne-Sophie Mutter
His artistic maturity is outstanding.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The virtuosity, exuberant temperament, burning passion, and perfection that Roth demonstrated here brought the audience to their feet.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
