Florian Meierott
Curriculum vitae
Florian Meierott was born in Würzburg in 1968 and began playing the violin at the age of four.
After studying (graduating “summa cum laude”) with his teachers Max Speermann, Ulf Hoelscher, Wilhelm Melcher, the Melosquartett and master classes with Zachar Bron and Ruggieri Ricci, among others, he was awarded numerous prizes.
Concerts have taken and continue to take him regularly as a soloist from Japan, Korea, America, South Africa and all over Europe to the big stages such as the Mozarteum Salzburg, Berlin Philharmonie and Schauspielhaus, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the "Palais des beaux arts" in Brussels and later London, Rome, Barcelona, Edinburgh and Paris.
The violinist is also increasingly appearing with his own compositions such as his "Techno Concerto", "Ikarus" or the "Stabat mater" for solo violin, which are also becoming increasingly popular with the younger generation of violinists.
In 2008 he founded the "Florian Meirott Foundation" to promote young musicians.
From 2008 to 2014 he taught violin and didactics at the Würzburg University of Music.
Since 2015 he has been one of the few violinists in the world to play all of JS Bach's sonatas and partitas by heart in a concert, including in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Gasteig and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
In 2017 he published a large number of new compositions for solo violin and his violin concertos, including on YouTube and with Verlag für Neue Musik Berlin.
In 2018/2019 he will increasingly appear with the Caprices op.1 and solo works by Niccolò Paganini.
As a soloist and conductor of the German Chamber Orchestra and the ensemble "Villa Paganini", he is a welcome guest at many festivals and concert series.
After recording more than 50 CDs as a soloist, such as the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Berliner Symphoniker under Alois Springer, he now devotes himself to new forms of media such as Instagram or YouTube or unconventional crossover projects such as concerts in nature or "Rock meets Paganini".
Florian Meierott lives with his family in the "Villa Paganini" in Kitzingen am Main, where he runs a violin school, a concert series and an international violin competition. His teaching work for beginners to professionals, published in 2011 in six volumes and several accompanying volumes, is used as a textbook in many countries. Available at www.violinschulemeierott.de
In 2022 Florian Meierott founded the International Violin Academy.
Meierott plays an Italian violin from around 1780.