Press Reviews
Selected critics ...
Whether as a soloist or concertmaster, Sophie Heinrich's violin playing inspires audiences and critics alike.
Below are some press reviews of various concert events. If you would like to witness Sophie Heinrich's violin playing with your own ears and eyes, please take a look at the calendar.
At the concertmaster's desk, Sophie Heinrich impressed with moving solo passages. The music was played with heart.
Susanne Zobl, KURIER, 08.06.2021, about a concert by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Adam Fischer
... an impressive Straussian 'Zarathustra'. This is due to the excellent solo performances, above all by concertmaster Sophie Heinrich, ...
Andreas Pernpeintner, SZ, 22.03.2017, about a concert by the Bavarian State Orchestra under Cornelius Meister
... The highlight was the symphonic suite from 'Princess Mononoke' with Katharina Melnikova and violinist Sophie Heinrich.
orf.at, 31.03.2023, about a concert of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Joe Hisaishi
Shani appeared in this special (Covid) concert as a conductor, but also as a confident pianist: Together with Sophie Heinrich, first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and first solo cellist Christoph Stradner, Shani performed Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 1 "Trio Élégiaque". Musical enthusiasm and noblesse, brilliant expressiveness and technical perfection, internalization and poetry - the piano trio offered the enthusiastic audience an exciting musical experience.
FK, Kronen Zeitung, 11.07.2020, about a concert of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Lahav Shani
Not only does the composer bring everything the orchestral apparatus has to offer to his only slightly tongue-in-cheek self-stylization as a musical genius. Above all, the extended solo violin passages also offer the new 1st concertmaster Sophie Heinrich a broad stage to shine - which the German makes charming use of.
APA / NÖN, 11.10.2020, about "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss, performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada
From the very first stroke, Sophie Heinrich showed what her violin playing is all about: dynamic tone paintingwith a warm play of sound colors and precise ductus. But - and this is the art - always with the culture of the inventor in mind. If you would like to know more about Brahms' character, which is rather feared by some violinists, Heinrich's interpretation shows how it is done to perfection
Every note played with love, Augsburger Allgemeine, 01.12.2019
Finally, special applause for concertmaster Sophie Heinrich: her violin solos are so bursting with agility, liveliness and inner tension that one would like to speak of a 'heroine's life'.
Christoph Irrgeher, Wiener Zeitung, 11.10.2020, on "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss, performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada