Age: 23
“I love that the violin is such a personal instrument. You can do so much to personalize your sound and expression. That search for getting what you hear in your inner ear out of the violin is a fantastic, never quite ending journey!
Michael Germer has won success at concerts and competitions internationally with his natural musicianship and his warm, sensual tone. He studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under Dora Schwarzberg and is currently pursuing an artist diploma with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. Michael started playing the violin at the age of 4, thanks to his father. “My dad had played a concert in Riga and noticed a small music shop with a tiny violin in the window, which he brought home for me. I walked around with it for a year until I started playing it.”
Michael is a laureate of numerous international competitions, such as the Khachaturian International Competition (Second Prize and Prize for Best Interpretation of Paganini, 2020), the Concours international Arthur Grumiaux (First Prize, 2018), and the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (First Prize, 2018). Since he was the youngest semifinalist at the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in 2019, he was offered to be represented by Nordic Artists Management, which has represented him since. Michael was also awarded the P2 Talent Prize of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in 2022 and the Gladsaxe Musikpris 2023. Previously, he was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Grant and the Jacob Gade Grant.
As a soloist, he has played with the Turin Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Webern Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil, the Århus Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Concerto Copenhagen, and collaborated with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Lahav Shani, Felix Mildenberger, Pierre Bleuse, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Gabrielle Teychenné, and Vladimir Kiradjiev. In 2021, Michael made his debut in the Danish Radio Concert Hall playing Saint-Saens’ third Violin Concerto under the baton of Marc Soustrot.
Festivals have taken him all over Europe, where he has collaborated with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Enrico Pace, Natalie Clein, Marianna Shirinyan, Katrine Gislinge, Silke Avenhaus, Den Danske Strygekvartet, and the Trio Con Brio Copenhagen. His concerts have been broadcast live on Austria’s national radio – ORF, on DR P2 and on medici.tv. The Concours 2026 marks his debut in North America.
A Larsen Strings Artist, Michael plays on a 1772 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini lent by the Augustinus Foundation.
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