Esther Middendorf

Esther Middendorf, born in Marburg in 1973, began playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Attila Aydintan at the Hanover Academy of Music and Theatre and with Mi-Kyung Lee and Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Berlin University of the Arts. She began gathering orchestral experience at a young age in the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), then as a member of the orchestral academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since 2000 Esther Middendorf has been a member of the first violin section of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. She spends her free time with her four children in Berlin, where she also occasionally plays as a substitute in various orchestras.

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