Carolin Widmann (born 1976) is a German classical violinist. The sister of composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, she is noted by critics as an exceptional violinist focused mainly on contemporary music. She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. 　　Born in Munich, Carolin Widmann was trained by Igor Ozim in Cologne, Michèle Auclair in Boston and David Takeno in London. As a soloist she has been conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Holliger, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has collaborated with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino and Rebecca Saunders, who have written several works especially for her. Since October 2006 she has been Professor of Violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. In 2012 she undertook the organisation of the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Germany's oldest chamber music festival.