Kerstin Grötsch

German Clarinetist Kerstin Grötsch, clarinet, born in 1969, was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica from 1992 to 1995 and later as a successor to Ulf Rodenhäuser, a member of the board of the Landesstiftung. In 1993 she won the first grant award of the foundation in the trio Magonza with the current artistic director, Alexander Hülshoff, and the pianist Babette Dorn. Until 2003, the trio has regularly performed in concerts of the Villa Musica. Kerstin Grötsch studied with Heinz Hepp at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt, and further at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule with Ulf Rodenhäuser. In 1990, she won the German Conservatory Competition, became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra in 1991, and earned her first position as a soloklarinettist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the city of Gelsenkirchen in 1994. In 1999 she came to the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. She has been involved in many other European countries, as well as in South America and Asia, as well as solo and chamber music concerts. In 1997, she took a teaching position at the Musikhochschule in Munich, followed in 2000 by the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf, where she still works as a professor for clarinet and chamber music.