Hartmut Richter was born in Hanover, Germany and started playing the violin at the age of six. At the age of 10 he became a student of Professor Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the Hanover Academy of Music.
Hartmut studied for his Diploma of Music at the Hanover Academy of Music, Germany, under Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Atila Aydintan and Ina Kertscher. He later completed his studies with a soloist diploma at the Nuremberg Academy of Music under Lydia Dubrovskaya.

Richter won several first prizes in German national competitions including Jugend Musiziert and the Mozart Competition Hildesheim, and has received scholarships for international masterclasses working with renowned professors including Herman Krebbers, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Christian Altenburger, Robert Szreder, Rosa Fain, Zenon Brzewski and Helen Brunner.

Early in his career he started giving international concerts and won several first prizes at the German national competition “Jugend musiziert”. He is a first prize winner of the Mozart Competition Hildesheim 2000 and received a special award of the German Mozart Society. He had his live TV debut in 1999 when he performed on the NDR evening show “DAS!”. Since then he has been giving soloist concerts regularly and has been engaging in numerous chamber music projects.

Apart from his violin career, Hartmut is a composer of classical and contemporary music and a dedicated multi-instrumentalist.