The violinist Georg Kallweit grew up in a musically oriented family of doctors in Greifswald on the Baltic Sea. After attending the specialist secondary school in Berlin (Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach), he studied at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Alongside his later engagement with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Georg Kallweit began at an early stage to focus intensively on questions of style in pre-Classical and early Classical music. 

As concertmaster and soloist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - and as a guest with other renowned ensembles - he is today a highly sought-after specialist. He regularly works as artistic director and/or concertmaster with European Baroque orchestras, as well as with a number of distinguished “modern” ensembles such as Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Nürnberg, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (Finland), among many others. 

He maintains a duo partnership within the ensemble Ombra e Luce with lutenist Björn Colell, focusing on the exploration of early Italian repertoire. At the Radialsystem Berlin and St. Elisabeth Church, Kallweit has repeatedly played a key role in the development and production of exceptional staged concert projects. To this end, he co-founded the ensemble Urban Strings together with dramaturge Folkert Uhde. The successful productions Angels Share (directed by Nicola Hümpel), Friends of Amarillis, Goldberg Variations, and Vis à Vis are the result of this shared artistic search. Similar approaches also characterize the Helsinki Early Music Festival in Finland, where Kallweit served as artistic director from 2015 to 2021 and with which he remains closely associated. 

More than sixty CD recordings have been released, many of them awarded international prizes. These include recordings of violin concertos for Harmonia Mundi France, chamber music with the Berliner Barock-Compagney for Capriccio, recitals with Ombra e Luce for Alpha and Raumklang, and much more. 

Georg Kallweit’s international concert activity has taken him to the most important concert halls in nearly all European countries, to Australia, and regularly to North and South America as well as Asia. As a lecturer, visiting professor, and leader of master classes, he teaches at music universities in Leipzig, Weimar, Berlin, Rostock, Helsinki, and St. Petersburg. In addition, since its founding he has been on the faculty of the youth Baroque orchestra Bachs Erben. 

Georg Kallweit plays a Baroque violin by Camillus Camilli (Mantua, 1740).