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Tabea Zimmermann: climb every mountain

2025-08-15T09:09:00

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German violist Tabea Zimmermann chats with Pauline Harding about auditions, competitions, her teaching philosophy, what she’s learnt from contemporary music – and how a combination of working with students and performing has enabled her to reach ever greater heights of string playing

April 2025 brought a rare new challenge for Tabea Zimmermann. For almost forty years, she has taught the viola – principally at the Saarbrücken Music Academy and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, and currently at the Kronberg Academy and Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. But this year, for the first time, she had to summarise her entire teaching philosophy in a three-hour lecture for string teachers at Spain’s Centro para La Pedagogía de los Instrumentos de Cuerda (CEPIC)…

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