THE TWO

The siblings Christoph and Marie-Luise Dingler are specialists concerning the genre of violin-duos. They have made it their business to keep that tradition and to revive it with innovations. Both are familiar with all duos, from the early baroque era to the modern era of music, and they perform premiere concerts with compositions which were dedicated exclusively to them. Being the third generation of musicians, they both study at the chair of Prof. Bratschkova in Mannheim. Brought up in an environment of musicians - their grandfather was a bandmaster, their mother is an A-cantor and a harpsichordist - they achieve the highest degree of interplay and harmony of sound, which can only be accomplished due to their shared curriculum and their permanent interplay.

“The violin-duo fascinated consistently during the rehearsal and in the following concerts by presenting an extremely sophisticated technical mastery, an extraordinary sensitivity not only concerning the compositional structures but also concerning their empathic comprehension of the emotional and artistic tenor of the pieces of music. Furthermore, they present an exceedingly professional work attitude and thus they prove to be an ensemble which in future will certainly continue to be in the centre of attention of the German and international music business.”
Karl Wieland Kurz.

Working with masterpieces

The instruments of the violin-duo come form the master studio of Martin Schleske (Munich), who is worldwide famous for his violin making. (www.geigenforschung.de)
With the aid of the most modern research methods, it is possible to build exact sound copies of the old violins which were made by a master craftsman. The violin-duo plays on archetypes according to Montagnana (1729) and Guarneri (1733).


The siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler started to play the violin at the age of 7. Four years later, they already participated at “Jugend musiziert”. At this, they achieved the first prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in the following years six times in a row. Both have been members of the state orchestra and the national orchestra and they are awardees of the Adolf-Metzner-Stiftung, the Heinrich-Vetter-Stiftung, the Kiwanis-Club, the Bruno-Hermann-Preis, the European Musical Competition and the International Violin Competition in Hofheim. They had solo performances with the “Auftakt Orchestra Heidelberg” the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Technology in Darmstadt, the “Kurpfälzische Chamber Orchestra”, the Corona Palatina and the Brandenburgian State Orchestra. They participated at the concert “Förderpreis Schloss Waldhausen” at the state parliament in Mainz, with a recording of the SWR (South-West broadcasting).
Marie-Luise and Christoph have been students of Prof. Nodel and today they are students of Prof. Dora Bratchkova at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. Recently, they have been included into the support program of LiveMusicNow Rhein-Neckar e.v.