Charlotte Westhauser
Violoncello, Rocking Strings Orchestra, Chamber OrchestraCharlotte Westhauser studied music in Mannheim and Paris as well as mathematics for the teaching profession at grammar schools. After eight years of violin lessons in childhood and adolescence, she switched to violoncello at the age of 14, which she finally studied as a major. In addition to training in piano and classical singing, she also studied conducting, which led to the practical examination of the 1st State Examination in Choir and Orchestra Conducting. She gained experience as an ensemble leader in the Bammentaler Sinfonieorchester, the Collegium Musicum Mannheim and the Heidelberger Musikfreunde, where she is currently the first solo cellist to lead the cello vocal group. In addition to her freelance work as a cello teacher, Charlotte Westhauser has also been conducting one of the school choirs of the St. Raphael Gymnasium in Heidelberg since 2018. Concert tours have taken her to Sweden, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Charlotte Westhauser has been attending the international music camp in Oberwesel every year since 2002: first as a participant, later as a tutor and since 2014 as a lecturer of the Rocking Strings Orchestra. She experienced and witnessed for herself the motivation and joy of making music together during the summer holidays in the children, until the young strings form a formed and harmonious body of sound after a week in camp. The musically as well as personally valuable work with the young artists has not only strengthened and accompanied the career aspirations of the music teacher in her, but also shows each year anew which boundaries are crossed in ensemble playing and which (musical) friendships can be made.
