Jana Andraschke

Jana Andraschke studied orchestral music at the Mannheim University of Music with Roman Nodel; she completed her masterclass studies with Grigori Zhislin in Würzburg. Numerous masterclasses with Igor Ozim, Philipp Hirschhorn, Viktor Tretyakov, and the La Salle Quartet rounded off her education. She won first prize at both the Brahms Competition in Mannheim and the Max Reger Competition. In 1997, her own compositions were recorded by SDR Karlsruhe. From 1998 to 2002, she was a scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg String Collection. In 2007, she played in the Verdi Quartet and gave numerous solo concerts, among others with the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Hamburg, the Sinfonietta Trier, and Archi di Colonia. Jana Andraschke was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, held a one-year contract with the Munich Philharmonic in 2001, and has been deputy concertmaster of the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic since 1999. Since September 2003, she has been a member of the Gürzenich Orchestra and since 2014 a member of the Rubin Quartet.