Ulrich Gröner was born in Ulm. He studied in Munich, Cologne (with Moscow’s Semyon Snitkovsky), and also worked extensively with members of the Melos Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet. As violinist of the Beethoven Trio from Ravensburg, he has won prizes in chamber music competitions in Colmar, Trapani and Florence. He has also been the recipient of awards and grants from the Deutsche Musikrat in Bonn. Gröner is act ive as a soloist and also holds the position of concertmaster in the Southwest German Radio Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg. He also serves as a juror for the Jugend musiziert national competition. He was a violinist in the Heine Quartet from 2003 to 2007 and today his chamber music work takes him throughout much of the world. As part of the Beethoven Trio, he has made many recordings of the great classical and romantic composers for LP and CD. Since 1993, he has been a professor of violin and chamber music at the University of the Arts in Zurich.
