Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He has appeared as a soloist with several major orchestras, including the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, the Brandenburg Symphonie Orchestra and the Metamorphosen Chamber Philharmonic (Berlin), collaborating with conductors of the likes of Marek Janowski, Patrick Lange, Christoph Poppen, Matthias Foremny, Conrad van Alphen and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and appearing in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium in Dijon and Metz Congress Hall. He was a prizewinner at the Concours International de Bordeaux and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation. A great number of broadcast recordings and CD releases on the Pentatone, CAvi-music and Audite labels offer further proof of his versatile talent. He trained at the Universitie “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin, he also received valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Alfred Lipka Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard Feltz, Kim Kashkashian and the Alban Berg Quartet. In 2011, Andreas Willwohl was appointed viola professor at Nuremberg University of Music; he imparts masterclasses in Europe and Asia on a regular basis. He has been a member of the Mandelring Quartet since 2015.