Nils Mönkemeyer

Nils Mönkemeyer studied at Mozarteum University Salzburg, University of Music and Theatre Munich and Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is music and viola performance. Employment is recorded with Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. Distinctions recorded are University Teacher of the Year.

• Name — Nils Mönkemeyer • Born — 1978 • Birthplace — Holzwickede, West Germany • Education — * Hochschule für Künste Bremen • Musikhochschule Hannover • Hochschule für Musik und Theater München • Mozarteum • Occupation — * Violist • Academic teacher • Organizations — * Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden • Hochschule für Musik und Theater München • Awards — * Primrose International Viola Competition • Deutscher Musikwettbewerb • Echo Klassik • Website — http: www.nilsmoenkemeyer.com/

Born in Holzwickede the oldest child of the guitar player Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer and his wife Heidemarie Mönkemeyer, he first studied the violin at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. He switched to the viola in 1997, inspired by chamber music. He studied viola at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Christian Pohl. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Hariolf Schlichtig from 2000, graduating in 2003 with a diploma "mit Auszeichnung". He studied further from 2003 to 2004 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Veronika Hagen. He took his concert exam with Schlichtig in 2006, again "mit Auszeichnung". Mönkemeyer first played an Italian viola by Giuseppe Cavaleri from 1742, a loan from the Landessammlung Rheinland-Pfalz. He plays now an instrument built by Peter Erben, Munich. For his first CD, Ohne Worte, he chose songs by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, playing them "without words", accompanied by Nicholas Rimmer. On his second CD, Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, he recorded viola concertos by Antonio Rosetti and Franz Anton Hoffmeister, the Rosetti a premiere recording. He added arrangements of five vocal movements from Bach cantatas, for example the opening aria from the secular cantata for soprano solo Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202. He was awarded many prizes, including in 2006 both the first prize of the International Yuri Bashmet Competition and the prize of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. In 2009 he was appointed professor of viola at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. He has taught at the Musikhochschule München from 2011.