Romanian-born violinist Mihaela Martin is one of the leading violinists of her generation, admired for the distinctive versatility of her musical expression. Equally at home as a soloist with orchestra and as a chamber musician, she has performed with leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. She has worked with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Andrew Davis, Andrew Litton, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Thierry Fischer, Thomas Sanderling, Constantine Orbelian, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Neeme Järvi, and Paavo Järvi.

Recent and upcoming highlights reflect Martin’s continued international presence as a performer and festival artist. Her 2026 season includes appearances in Madrid, Bad Honnef, Osaka and Tokyo, Budapest, Santander, Verbier, Domaine Forget, Sion, Tallinn, New York, Montepulciano, and Jerusalem. She also appears in Bucharest with the George Enescu Philharmonic in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.

Chamber music has a central place in Martin’s artistic life. She is a founding member of the Michelangelo String Quartet, with whom she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Wigmore Hall, the Library of Congress, the Concertgebouw, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Since 2017, she has served as artistic director of the Rolandseck/Bad Honnef Chamber Music Festival, and frequently collaborates with artists including Daniel Barenboim, Sergei Babayan, Lera Auerbach, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Sharon Kam, Nobuko Imai, and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

Mihaela Martin is a professor at the University of Music in Cologne, at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, and at the Kronberg Academy. She gives masterclasses throughout the world and is a regular jury member at important international competitions such as the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in the United States, Concours musical international de Montréal in Canada, the George Enescu International Competition in Romania, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia.

Mihaela Martin plays a violin by J. B. Guadagnini that dates from 1748.