Gideon Schirmer

Gideon Schirmer was born in Stuttgart in 1990. At the age of eight, he began playing the violin, taught by Ulrike Abdank during his school years. He graduated from secondary school one year after winning a First Prize at the federal round of the competition “Jugend musiziert”. He went on to study with Winfried Rademacher and Christoph Schickedanz. He gathered orchestral experience as a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, as a member of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra’s academy and with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden. He became a regular member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. Gideon Schirmer is passionate about water sports; when he is not sailing on the Alster, he might be surfing in other German or far-away coastal waters.