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Activities
- Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: Lecturer for Fachdidaktik Violine in Alter Mensur
Short biography
Born in Vienna, Germán Echeverri comes from a family of Colombian musicians and grew up in Spain. After studying with Raquel Castro and Pablo Valetti at the ESMuC (Barcelona), he completed a master's degree in baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Amandine Beyer, graduating with honours in May 2012.
In 2011, Germán Echeverri founded the ensemble Der Musikalische Garten with violinist Karoline Echeverri Klemm. The ensemble won several international competitions in 2013 and has since recorded several CDs.
Germán Echeverri works as concertmaster in several ensembles such as Musica Fiorita, Freitagsakademie Bern, La Cetra Basel and others and plays in various orchestras and ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Gli Incogniti and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
Germán Echeverri has performed as a soloist in Switzerland, Germany, South Korea, South America and Spain and has given masterclasses in Switzerland, Ukraine and Colombia.
He has been Professor of Baroque Violin at the ESMUC (Barcelona) since 2024. From the autumn semester 24-25 he was mandated to teach didactics for baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The position was permanently established at the Schola per autumn semester 26-27 and Germán Echeverri was elected.