Marie Kogge

Marie Kogge, born into a Berlin family of musicians in 1966, studied violin at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1986 to 1993 after graduating from the Rudolf Steiner School. She gained her first professional experience as a violinist with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and the Orchestre Philharmonique Strasbourg in France before returning to Berlin as a freelance musician. There she became co-founder of the chamber music formation Ensemble Incendo Berlin in 2000.

Marie Kogge teaches freelance violin and initiated the school subject “Music in Ensemble” at the Potsdam Waldorf School. For more than ten years, she has led the two school orchestras that emerged from this programme. The concept of MitMachMusik was largely developed from her experiences with her students and making music together.