Dietrich Petzold

Dietrich Petzold is a German violinist, violist, composer and sound engineer born in 1954. Classically trained in Eisenach and Weimar, he has worked as a freelance musician since the mid-1970s, performing in jazz, improvised music and contemporary chamber ensembles.

He has collaborated with Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, Tristan Honsinger, Butch Morris, Chris Jarrett and many others. His extensive work for theatre, film and radio includes compositions and live performance; he also runs the tonus arcus recording studio. Creative Sources documents him across several albums, on violin, viola, clavichord and unconventional bowed objects.