Tabea Zimmermann, born on October 8, 1966 in Lahr, (Germany), is a German violist. She began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservatory of Freiburg and progressed to study with Sándor Végh at the Mozarteum [1] University of Salzburg.