Renato Wiedemann began playing the violin at the age of eight in Birsfelden under Dölf Zinsstag. After three years, he moved to the Basel Music School to study with Vincent Providoli and subsequently joined Emilie Haudenschild’s violin class. From 2012 to 2015, he completed his Bachelor’s degree under Prof. Sebastian Hamann at the Lucerne School of Music. There, Renato also received regular tuition from Giuliano Carmignola. From October 2015, he studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT) under Prof. Christoph Schickedanz, where he graduated with a Master’s in Performance in February 2019. As part of refugee support initiatives, Renato taught theory and violin at the HfMT. From September 2019 to July 2021, he furthered his studies at the Lucerne University of Music under Igor Karsko and Clemens Heil, completing them with a second Master’s degree in Solo Performance (major) and Conducting (minor).
In 2015, he was awarded a scholarship from the Friedl Wald Foundation in Basel. Renato was concertmaster of the Junge Sinfoniker Basel until June 2012 and a member of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SJSO) until 2014. From 2017 to 2019, Renato played with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and, in 2019, with the Nuremberg State Philharmonic. He is a co-founder of the steiner trio basel. Since August 2023, he has been teaching at the Basel Music Academy and, together with violinist Susanne Mathé, is artistic director of the art classics basel chamber music festival.
He made his debut as a soloist in 2012 in Basel and Reinach with Louis Spohr’s Violin Concerto No. 8, ‘Gesangszenen’, and in the same year with W.A. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219, in Ribeirão Preto and Araraquara (Brazil). Since then, he has performed as a soloist in Switzerland and Brazil, including in São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G minor, and, at the KKL Lucerne as part of the Soloists’ Concerts with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto Op. 129.
Renato plays a violin made by the Neapolitan luthier Nicolò Gagliano in 1750.
