I am a classically trained violinist, who also performs other genres such as Traditional, Latin, Jazz, Pop and Rock. My motto is good music has no borders!
1. Tell us about your background and journey.
I come from a family of musicians from England and Germany. I have recorded albums and videos and am active on youtube and other social media. I am an active teacher for Bachelor and Master students at an academy in Germany and have branched out into crossover and collaboration with artists in many different genres such as Pop, Jazz, and Rock music.
I also produce my own sheet music, both personally and with a publisher, and just recently for the online sheet music provider Jellynote–I like to keep arranging a lot! Due to the covid crisis, I launched my own Record label on Patreon and started producing new albums as all concerts were and mostly still are cancelled.
2. What inspired you to become a violinist?
My parents are both musicians and took me early to concerts and operas so I saw and heard violin sounds from the crib, so to speak. I fell in love with the sound of the violin as a very small child and wanted to be a violinist from the time I started playing.
I remember I pitied a friend of mine who did not want to become a pianist (she played the piano) when I must have been maybe 6 years old. I love the sound of the violin, I love playing and performing. It is my instrument for expressing myself.
3. How would you describe your music?
I am a classically trained violinist, who also performs other genres such as Traditional, Latin, Jazz, Pop and Rock. My motto is good music has no borders!
4. From where do you get inspiration to compose your music?
Well, as I am mostly an interpreter of classical music and other music genres, I am mostly not the composer of the music I play. But I do improvise and compose songs, often inspired by my English–Irish heritage.
5. Who do you admire as a violinist and why?
I admire a lot of violinists, from the last century like David Oistrakh, Jascha Heifetz but also from today such as Hilary Hahn, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Itzhak Perlman, my own teacher Herman Krebbers, and violinist, comedian and composer Aleksey Igudesman, to just name a few. There are too many to list them all.
6. What tips and advice would you give to aspiring violinist?
Believe in yourself, make sure you know what it means to be a professional violinist in the world today and be prepared to have to be very inconvenienced by it, be open to other musicians, also from other genres and remember you are part of a culture that encompasses many musicians, who dedicate themselves to making music and bringing joy and emotional healing to people.
7. Which is your favourite music genre and why?
I don´t have a favourite music genre, I tend to like almost everything depending very much on what I am working on professionally and what is happening in my life. Privately, I sometimes prefer silence as I am making music and producing sounds all the time.
I love Bach´s music, always coming back to it and finding something new, but then again you can sing with Mozart´s beautiful music, cry and feel the longing in romantic music, scream in music composed by Bartok or get really depressed in some of Shostakovich´s music, and get high energy with rock and pop.
I find it very refreshing, rewarding and challenging to be able to work with so many different musical styles. It means you never stop developing, which is so vital as a professional musician.
As the last pupil of legendary Dutch pedagogue and violinist Herman Krebbers, Caroline Adomeit combines the Franco-Belgian and the Russian violin schools. Her wide-ranging repertoire includes more than 300 compositions and more than 90 with orchestra. As well as the standard violin repertoire Caroline loves to arrange music ranging from jazz, film, folk to pop. Her great interest is to bring classical music to the general public and she greatly enjoys writing and performing virtuoso arrangements of jazz pieces, tangos, musicals and encore pieces but also enjoys transcribing classical pieces.
She has arranged music for solo violin and full symphony orchestra and also worked together with other arrangers. Caroline is highly proficient in many different styles. She has given entire solo concerts using a looper machine, including classical and folk music by Paganini and rock, pop, covers of games music and funk music. She has worked together with artists from many different genres such as jazz and baroque. She has also collaborated with composers of film music.
Caroline seeks to erode the barrier between artists and their audience, a process which was irrevocably begun by the advent of digitalisation and social media. She also believes that artists should give back to society, inspire audiences and unite. She seeks to build communities around classical music blurring the boundaries between genres and moving away from the elitism that has traditionally been such a part of the classical music scene. Her motto remains that there are no borders in good music and that classical music is not elitist.
Interviewed By - Prashansa Maurya
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