Rebekka Hartmann began playing the violin at the age of five with the Suzuki teacher Helge Thelen. She studied in Munich with Prof. Andreas Reiner and continued her education in Los Angeles with Prof. Alice Schoenfeld. She received further valuable impulses through international masterclasses, including with Rainer Kussmaul and in collaboration with Josef Kröner.

As the prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, Rebekka Hartmann attracted attention early on. Her awards include the International Henri Marteau Violin Competition, Lichtenberg (2005), the international music competition “Pacem in Terris,” Bayreuth (2004), as well as the renowned “Jascha Heifetz Scholarship,” USA (2002).

Her international concert activities have brought her together with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Enoch zu Guttenberg, and Kent Nagano. She has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, Asia, and the USA, and has appeared at major festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Hohenloher Kultursommer, and the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte.

Her repertoire ranges from early Baroque to contemporary music. Numerous CD recordings document her artistic work. These include solo works by J.S. Bach, P. Hindemith, and B.A. Zimmermann, which were released in 2006 on the Munich label Farao Classics.

For her CD “Birth of The Violin” (2011, Solo Musica), Rebekka Hartmann received the ECHO KLASSIK 2012 in the category “Best Solo Recording of the Year.” The Baroque works by German, Italian, and French composers are, with few exceptions, world premiere recordings. In 2015, the CD “Views from Ararat” was released on Farao Classics, featuring works by Armenian and Turkish composers, recorded together with her piano partner Margarita Oganesjan. Also in 2015, she released a CD on Musiques Suisses in cooperation with Swiss Radio, presenting the complete works of Paul Juon for the extraordinary combination of two violins and piano.

In September 2018, she produced a recording of violin concertos by G. Tartini, J. Haydn, and F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists under the direction of Lavard Skou Larsen at Solo Musica (nominated for ICMA 2019).

A special highlight is her 2025 recording released by Farao Classics, featuring works by K.A. Hartmann, M. Ravel, as well as the world premiere of the violin concerto “Stradivari” by Aziza Sadikova. For this project, she collaborated with the Rachmaninoff International Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano.

Rebekka Hartmann plays a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1675, which has been named after her: the “Hartmann Stradivari.”