Rebecca Thies

Rebecca Thies received her first violin lessons at the age of 6. After studying with Emily Körner in Stuttgart for several years, she continued in the class of Prof. Christine Busch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart as part of a young student programme.

In 2015, she moved to the Zurich University of the Arts in Prof. Nora Chastain's class and graduated with a bachelor's degree with honours in spring 2019.

As a teenager, she won several national prizes at the Jugend musiziert competition in the duo and solo violin categories and won special prizes from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation and the WESPE competition. During this time, she has already gained a great deal of orchestral experience, including as concertmaster and section leader in the Baden Württemberg State Youth Orchestra, the Tübingen Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Tübingen Chamber Orchestra.

In addition to her work as a chamber musician, including in the "Forum junger Interpreten" concert series, she has performed as a soloist with the Tübingen Youth Chamber Orchestra, the Weil im Schönbuch Young String Orchestra, the Medical Orchestra of the Ophthalmological Society, the Stuttgart Medical Orchestra and the "Sinfonietta Tübingen“.

Her musical career has also been shaped by numerous masterclasses with Christine Busch, Heime Müller, Isabelle van Keulen, Mi-kyung Lee, Lena Neudauer and Nora Chastain. She has toured the USA, Canada, China and Japan with the „Ever Present Orchestra“, which was founded in 2017 and specialises in works by Alvin Lucier. In the years 2021-2022 she travelled with the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), other ensembles she has performed with in recent years are the chamber orchestra "Eroica Berlin", "Ensemble Konsonanz" from Bremen or "Ensemble Reflektor“ or the Lucerne Contemporary Orchestra at Lucerne Festival.

Rebecca finished her master's degree at the University of the Arts in the class of Prof Nora Chastain in Summer 2024. In order to continue her education in other artistic fields, she has also been studying architecture at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2020. Since November 2024 she is academist in the orchestra of the „Deutsche Oper Berlin“.