Pauline Sachse

Pauline Sachse (born 1980) is a German violist, chamber musician, and professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

Life Born in Hamburg, Sachse received violin lessons from 1988 and began playing the viola in 1992. She studied with Tabea Zimmermann first at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and since 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. In 2003, she also studied at Yale University in the US with Jesse Livine and Peter Oundjian. Her chamber music partners include among others Isabelle Faust, Stella Doufexis, Lauma Skride, Harriet Krijgh, Janine Jansen and Tabea Zimmermann. From 2010 to 2014, Sachse was principal violist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Recordings Schwanengesang, Schubert and Shostakovich with Lauma Skride − Label AVI. Hamlet Echoes with Stella Doufexis and Daniel Heide − Label AVI. Elgar Quintett with Carolin Widmann, David McCarroll, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen – Label Alpha.