Angelika Bachmann | Violin

Angelika grew up in Hamburg and was exempted from schooling by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg due to her special musical talent and from then on received home lessons. At the age of four she gave her first concerts, at five she began to compose and from the age of seven she performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras, received numerous special prizes for outstanding interpretations and was a long-time scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. Her teachers included Prof. Michael Goldstein, Prof. Evelyn Distler, Prof. Petru Monteanu and Roland Greutter, the 1st concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Angelika's own works are published by Breitkopf & Härtel.

After graduating from high school, Angelika studied philosophy, German language and literature, and pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. She also studied music and speech training at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, and she completed her master's degree in psychology at the University of Wuppertal.

Angelika is the founder of Salut Salon and performs on all continents. In 2011, she received the Federal Cross of Merit from the German President for her worldwide volunteer work. She was also awarded the inventio for the most innovative music project in Germany by the Federal President, and in 2016 Angelika received the ECHO Klassik with Salut Salon.

Since 2015, she has been an honorary Alster lock-keeper - an honor awarded for nearly 40 Hamburg citizens who have distinguished outstanding services as ambassadors for Hamburg in the world, including Siegfried Lenz, Dr. Michael Otto and Uwe Seeler.

Angelika is the artistic director of The Young ClassX, a music initiative that she developed in 2007 together with Alexander Birken, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Otto Group, and which has since given more than 30,000 children and young people free access to classical music. Patrons are Prof. Dr. Michael Otto, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Otto Group, and Dr. Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 2019, The Young ClassX was awarded the German Cultural Promotion Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Business in the BDI and in 2022 received the OPUS Klassik in the category of promoting young talent.

In 2020, Angelika and rapper Samy Deluxe founded Salut Deluxe, an association funded by the Haspa Music Foundation of Hamburger Sparkasse, with the goal of musically stimulating and promoting children and young people regardless of their social background, as well as making them fit for teamwork and personal responsibility so that they grow into open, strong personalities.

Angelika has been an ambassador for Kindernothilfe since 2003. Since then, she has been involved as a sponsor for the Chilean music school Escuela Popular de Artes in the poor district of Achupallas and has also worked on other Kindernothilfe projects in Brazil, Haiti, Kosovo and Sri Lanka. She always uses her private travels (she has now been to more than 100 countries) to support local children's and social projects, to work musically with children and to provide financial support. In doing so, she enjoys unusual encounters with people on the ground, such as with young people in Palestine and Israel, with perpetrators and victims of genocide in Rwanda, or with schoolchildren in North Korea. In 2015, during a concert tour in Kenya and musical workshops with children and young people, she initiated the Skype Classes project for young string players of the Ghetto Classics in Korogocho, a slum in the Dandora landfill in Nairobi.

Angelika founded the children's and youth orchestra Die Coolen Streicher in 1992 and has been director of the Hamburg Instrumental Competition since 2013. She has been a member of the board of trustees of the foundation Chancen für Kinder since 2004. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Haspa Music Foundation of Hamburger Sparkasse. From 2018 to 2020, Angelika was vice president of the Landesmusikrat Hamburg.

In addition to her artistic activities, Angelika is a Systemic Business Coach, Scrum Master and Resilience Coach. She is an expert and consultant for organizational transformation and agile culture change. As a technical book author, she writes about agile methods such as strategy implementation with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). She is also a rhetoric and stage fright coach, gives storytelling workshops, works therapeutically in stress and burnout prevention. She is a lecturer for agile organizational transformation and for communication at the Hochschule Fresenius - University of applied sciences in Hamburg and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Angelika is currently working on her doctorate in sociology on the topic of "Interventions in juvenile detention".