Not only possessing “a formidable technique and stunning musicality but also worth mentioning stage presence that transmits to orchestra and audience alike,” (Wuppertaler Zeitung) violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel has distinguished herself as one of her generation's most exciting German violinists, acclaimed for her virtuosity, intelligence and passion.

Her numerous appearances at music festivals in Aspen (Colorado), Bellingham (Washington), Chautauqua (New York), Kuhmo (Finland), Las Vegas (Nevada), Menuhin (Gstaad/Switzerland), Noord-Holland (Netherlands), Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (Canada), Pan Music (Seoul), Ravinia (Chicago), Sächsisches Mozartfest (Germany), Berliner Festwochen Germany), Frankfurter Musiktage (Germany), Scotia (Halifax), and Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) have been met with particular enthusiasm. She has performed throughout Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, the United States and Asia as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, as well as presenting master classes in Albania, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, Rumania, Taiwan, and the USA.

At the age of four, she was taught her first violin lessons by her father, switching to Emilia Mohr-Morikawa later. At age 11, she was admitted to the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen as a “Jungstudentin,” one of the youngest students ever to be admitted to that university. At age 12 she gave her debut as a soloist in the "Tonhalle" Düsseldorf.

She consequently continued her studies with Herman Krebbers, Walter Levin, Henry Meyer, Peter Oundjian, Pieter Daniel, and Dorothy DeLay at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Musikhochschule der Stadt Basel (Switzerland), the Sweelinck-Conservatory Amsterdam (Holland), and received an Artist Diploma from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Additionally, she holds three degrees from the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen in violin and chamber music (“Künstlerische Reifeprüfung” and “Konzertexamen” with highest honours).

Grants from foundations in Germany and the USA, such as the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Bonn,” Kulturkreis im BDI, the “Starling Foundation” and the “Ponto-Stiftung” Frankfurt, supported her worldwide studies.

She has worked and performed with highly esteemed musicians such as Pierre Amoyal, Young-Chang Cho, Patrick Demenga, Ralf Gothoni, Bernhard Greenhouse, Arthur Grumiaux, Alexander Hülshoff, Maria Kliegel, Juhani Lagerspetz, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Elsbeth Moser, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Viktor Pikaisen, Sandra Rivers, Dmitri Sitkovetzky, Peter Zazofsky and others as well as with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony and Cologne Radio, Gürzenich Cologne, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras.

Annette-Barbara Vogel has performed in concerts halls such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the big hall of the National Concert House Taipeij, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Alhambra Granada, Louvre Paris, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. among many others.

The Tokyo String Quartet recommended her for an Artist-in-Residence position with the Monticello-Trio at the University of Virginia/Charlottesville where she taught from 1994 to 1995 before returning to Germany. From 1995 to 1998, she was on the faculty of the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and held the positions as concertmaster of the “Folkwang-Kammerorchester Essen” and later of the “Niederrheinische Sinfoniker Krefeld” before she accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Annette-Barbara Vogel has won numerous awards in national and international competitions and has also been serving on the jury of the German “Jugend musiziert” competition since 1998.

“The mastership of Annette-barbara Vogel is on such a high level that it actually doesn’t matter what works will be performed. Any performance in her hands turns into a memorable event….” (WAZ)

As an avid performer of 20th century music, she is also known for her extraordinarily huge standard repertoire and her unusual projects. She has premiered numerous works written for her with future commissions in the process.

In 1999 she toured Rumania and Germany playing the Brahms violin concerto in a series of critically acclaimed performances. The “Wuppertaler Zeitung” wrote that “…one experienced Brahms as it rarely happens—as profound, sensitive, romantic.” Recent seasons further highlights included widely praised performances of the complete Beethoven Violin-Piano Sonata Cycle in Germany and the USA with long-time duo-partner Ulrich Hofmann, as well as concert engagements of the Brahms Double concerto, Bruch violin concerto No. 1 and Beethoven Triple concerto in Europe and the USA, beside frequent duo and chamber music recitals and festival appearances.

Annette-Barbara Vogel recorded on the Harmonia Mundi and Cybele labels with works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Yuri Brener, Aram Chatchaturian, Andreas Kunstein, Alfred Schnittke, Bedrich Smetana, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Yves Prin. Recent CD releases include a CD with Duo Violin-Cello pieces (works by Fiorillo, Sibelius, Pleyel and Gliere), a Violin-Piano CD with Sonatas by Brahms (F minor, op. 120), Enesco (No. 2 in F minor), Lutoslawski (Partita) and Reger (Romanze e minor) and a portrait CD presenting strings-piano chamber music by composer Hans Gal (Violin Sonata, op. 17).

“Fono Forum” wrote of “Recital” that “Annette-Barbara Vogel shows the whole spectrum of her brilliance …in regard to her choice of repertoire” and calls her “a temperamental violinist with sensually shining and yet so flexible sound.”

Her CD of “French Women Composers of the 19th century” (Violin-Piano Sonatas and Pieces by Louse Farrenc, Pauline Viardot an Lily Boulanger) was released in 2004. All currently available recordings are produced on the Cybele Records label ( www.cybele.de, www.amazon.com,
www.barnesandnoble.com, www.jpc.de, www.albanyrecords.com)

She plays a Lorenzo Storioni violin, kindly loaned by “Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen” Düsseldorf.

Since January 2004, Annette-Barbara Vogel has been teaching at the University of Western, London, Ontario, Canada.