About
Eva Wetzel has won top prizes at numerous national and international competitions, such as the Beethoven's Hradec International Music competition (2024), the Competition of the Elise-Meyer-Stiftung (2023), the “Villa de Llanes” International Competition (2021) and the Rosen-Schaffel-Competition (2017).
She has participated in prestigious academies and festivals such as the Carl Flesch Akademie Baden-Baden, the Summeracademy Mozarteum Salzburg and the International Mendelssohn Festival Summerschool and received fellowships for the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She was able to gain inspiration from important artists, such as Pierre Amoyal, Kolja Blacher, Krzysztof Węgrzyn, Christoph Schickedanz, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Martin Beaver, Alexander Kerr and Charles Castleman.
From 2021 to 2023, Eva Wetzel was an academist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing in concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin, the Bregenz Festival Hall, and the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Eva has performed in renowned concert halls across Europe, including the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Auditori di Girona, the Teatro Principal de Pontevedra, and the Atlàntida de Vic. She has appeared as a soloist with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra under Gerard Schwarz, as well as with the Vogtlandphilharmonie Greiz/Reichenbach and the Landesjugendorchester Thüringen. As a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, she regularly performs concerts in psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, and other social institutions in Hamburg.
In 2023/24, Eva Wetzel was selected as part of the StART.up-program of the Claussen-Simon Foundation Hamburg, where she was able to further explore her passion for interdisciplinary projects and unique concert formats. Her concert programs are characterized by a thematic thread,combined with texts and personal storytelling. In spring 2025, she took part in an experimental concert series at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, combining musical compositions with visual art by painter Franz Gertsch.
Eva Wetzel has recently completed her Konzertexamen with distinction from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under the guidance of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender with performances of Britten’s Violin Concerto in October 2025. Previously, she received a full scholarship to attend Yale School of Music for her Master’s degree with Prof. Ani Kavafian. She received her Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where she studied with Prof. Ida Bieler. During this time, she also studied piano with Prof. Dr. Dmitri Shteinberg and Prof. Eric Larsen.
Eva Wetzel began playing the piano at age three with her mother and started violin lessons a year later at her local music school. She began receiving guidance from Prof. Ida Bieler at age 12 and joined her class at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf as a pre-college student at 15.
During this time, she won seven prizes at the national level of Jugend musiziert and was awarded the Highly Gifted Scholarship of the State of Thuringia.
Eva Wetzel plays a violin by Marc de Sterke, a bow by Magdalena Sapeta and a baroque bow by Rüdiger Pfau.