Lena Neudauer – Violin
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Lena Neudauer, born in 1984 in Munich, Germany, began playing the violin at the age of three, and at the age of ten performed her first concert with orchestra. Aged eleven, she entered the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in a class led by Helmut Zehetmair; later, she continued her studies under the instruction of Thomas Zehetmair and Christoph Poppen.
Lena Neudauer sparked sensation at the Leopold Mozart International Competition in Augsburg, where she not only won 1st prize, but was also awarded the Mozart Prize, Richard Strauss Prize for the best interpretation of Richard Strauss’ Violin Concerto, and the Audience Prize.
Since then, Lena Neudauer has played with orchestras like the MDR Symphony Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, with conductors such as Christoph Poppen, Dennis Russell Davies, Mariss Jansons, Pietari Inkinen, David Stahl and Wojciech Rajski.
In her artistic activities chamber music plays a significant role, which together with her solistic performances also led her to perform in Festivals including the Mozart Week in Salzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Braunschweig Classix, GAIA Chamber Music Festival, Festival of the Nations in Bad Wörishofen and the Festival Musical Olympus in St. Petersburg.
Her debut CD on the Hänssler Classic label appears in May 2010 and presents the complete works for violin and orchestra by Robert Schumann together with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under Pablo Gonzalez.