Sebastian Deutscher

Sebastian Deutscher was born in Berlin. He received his first violin lessons from his father. During his studies at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin, where he was taught by Ursula Scholz, he was awarded a scholarship, as a result of which he spent the summer of 1997 at the Interlochen music camp in the USA. He completed his studies with Werner Scholz at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and with Antje Weithaas at the Berlin University of the Arts as well as with Sebastian Hamann at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Numerous masterclasses in Cologne, Schönthal Monastery, Rostock, Weimar and Lucerne, among others, complemented his studies.
He began his orchestral career in 2003, played at the Deutsche Oper Berlin until 2004, was principal violin of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra from 2005 to 2015 and has been principal 2nd violin of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2015. As part of his work, he played as a soloist in the Elbphilharmonie under Kent Nagano.
The connection between tradition and the present is particularly close to his heart. In 2020, he founded the Hej Hans Festival, an intergenerational cross-over music festival on Lake Plön. He also initiated Classic-Tunes, a project that uses blockchain technology to combine classical music and visual arts in a new way. He is also a founding member of the Franco-German ensemble Oriol, which performs vocal music in a jazz club atmosphere.
He plays a violin by P. Guarneri from 1750, which is privately owned and has been loaned to the Philharmonic State Orchestra.