Charlotte Thiele, born in Dresden in 2000, is one of the most promising violinists of her generation. As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Anhalt Philharmonic Orchestra Dessau and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. Her concerts have taken her to venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Kulturpalast Dresden, the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, and the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the 2025/26 season, she will make her debut with the Dresden Philharmonic at the Kulturpalast Dresden, where she will perform Brahms' Double Concerto together with her brother Friedrich Thiele.
She has a particular passion for chamber music. She regularly performs with her brother at renowned venues such as the Dresden Semperoper and the Dresden Frauenkirche. Other musical partners to date include Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Julia Hagen, Sharon Kam, Bryan Cheng, Kiveli Dörken, Can Çakmur, and Till Fellner.
The violinist is a regular guest at festivals such as the Heidelberg Spring, IMPULS Festival, Immenklang, Neuland, the Weilburg Castle Concerts and the Young Artist Festival Bonn. In the 2024/25 season, she made her chamber music debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Kulturhaus Wiesbaden.
In the 2017/18 and 2022/23 seasons, Charlotte Thiele was artist-in-residence at the IMPULS Festival for New Music and with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra.
For the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, she was concertmaster of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. She has also recently been invited as guest concertmaster by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, among others.
Charlotte Thiele is also committed to music education and creative formats: as a TONALi academician, she initiated a pilot project for musical development through composition together with "Rhapsody in School" and composer Alex Vaughan, which was established at a secondary school in Cologne.
She received important inspiration in masterclasses with Gerhard Schulz, Christian Tetzlaff, Julia Fischer, Augustin Hadelich, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, among others.
She was a junior student with Natalia Prischepenko at the Dresden University of Music and is currently studying for her master's degree at the "Franz Liszt" University of Music in Weimar with Friedemann Eichhorn and Sönke Reger.
Charlotte Thiele plays a French violin from 1775, generously loaned to her by Dr Peter Hauber.