VIOLIN 1993 : Ninth Prize
Born to Croatian-Japanese parents in Germany, violinist Latica Honda-Rosenberg came to international attention after winning the silver medal at the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She started her development as a violinist at an early age and soon began studying with the great Hungarian violin virtuoso Tibor Varga. Starting in 1991, she spent three years studying with Zakhar Bron at the Lübeck Musikhochschule and received her concert degree with special mention.
In demand as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, Latica Honda-Rosenberg has performed with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Radio Orchestras Leipzig, Cologne and Hanover, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, the Prague and the Zurich Chamber Orchestras, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Russian State Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic in Prague, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the WDR-Radio-Orchestra-Cologne, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra and others. She has been invited to the festivals of Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Schwetzingen, Gstaad, Salzburg and Kuhmo. In 2011 she founded the Joachim Quartett Berlin with Viviane Hagner, Hartmut Rohde and Jens Peter Maintz.
Latica Honda-Rosenberg has made numerous radio and TV appearances throughout Europe, the USA and Israel. She records for the Oehms Classics label and is a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin.