Biography

Gianni Jiosuè Wiede was born in Germany in 2004 and has been playing the violin since he was four years old. From 2011-2013, he studied with Prof. Johannes Kittel at the Academy of Music Hans Eisler Berlin. From 2012-2014, he was a member of the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir. Since 2013, he has been a young student with Prof. Mirijam Contzen at the Julius Stern Institute of the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin. He has been a student at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin since 2014, where he receives piano lessons as well as composition and improvisation lessons. 

Gianni Jiosuè takes part in numerous master classes throughout Europe. This includes regular master classes with Prof. Ingold Turban. He attended other master classes with Francesco DeAngelis and Martin Titor. He is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and regularly takes part in the intensive weeks and activities that take place there.

Gianni Jiosuè won his first competitions from the age of six at “Jugend Musiziert”. From 2010-2017, he consistently won 1^st prizes with maximum points in the solo and duo categories. Other competition successes include a 2^nd prize at the “International Josef Micka Competition” 2019 in Prague and a special prize at the “International Szymon Goldberg Competition 2020” in Meissen. He also won a special prize for the best interpretation of a work of ostracized music at the “WESPE Competition 2019”. 

Regular concert appearances take place at the UdK Berlin, the Julius Stern Institute and the C.P.E. Bach Music High School. Gianni Jiosuè had his first concerts with orchestra at the age of seven and in 2019 at the UdK with the chamber orchestra of the Julius Stern Institute. Appearances in the Philharmonie Berlin with the symphony orchestra of the C.P.E. Bach music high school in 2023 are being planned. 

Gianni Jiosuè is very interested in chamber music. In 2020 and 2021, he took part in the international chamber music festival Musica Mundi Festival in Belgium, with guests such as Maxim Vengerov, Mischa Maisky, Augustin Hadelich and others. He plays in the string quartet of the Julius Stern Institute and takes part in other ensembles and orchestras throughout Germany. 

He is a fellow of the Gerda and Luigi Prade Foundation. 

He plays a violin by Josef Guanerius, made in Cremona in 1743, which he received on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung für Musikleben.