Lea Birringer (born 23 November 1986) is a German classical violinist.

Life and career

Lea Birringer's international career began at the age of 14 with her solo debut at the

Berliner Philharmonie The Berliner Philharmonie () is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany, and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on ...

. Since then, she has been invited to international festivals, like the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amad ...

, MDR Musiksommer,

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Festival, Crescendo Winter Music Festival in Florida, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the festival LuganoMusica or the Festival Internacional de Música Alfredo De Saint Malo in Panama. Other highlights of recent years include, among others, performances at Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Louvre Paris,

Musikverein Vienna The ( or ; ), commonly shortened to , is a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, which is located in the Innere Stadt district. The building opened in 1870 and is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. The acoustics of the building's 'Great ...

Gasteig Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich, opened in 1985, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard Strauss Conservatory, the Volkshochschule, and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig. Most of the events of the Fi ...

Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin and

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino The is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and which ...

in Florence. She has been able to demonstrate her versatility and broad repertoire, which also includes contemporary pieces as well as lesser-known works, due to her collaboration with renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie,

Münchner Symphoniker The Munich Symphony Orchestra (Münchner Symphoniker) is a German orchestra based in Munich but active statewide in Bavaria. It gives subscription concerts at the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater and, to a lesser degree, at the Philhar ...

, Jena Philharmonie, Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, among others. Lea Birringer is prizewinner at the international violin competitions Kloster Schöntal, Premio

Rodolfo Lipizer Rodolfo Lipizer (January 16, 1895 – June 8, 1974), was an Italian violinist, professor of music, and orchestra conductor. Lipizer was born in Gorizia, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Ita ...

, Louis Spohr and Abram Yampolski. In 2008 she won the

International Johannes Brahms Competition The International Johannes Brahms Competition ("Brahms Competition") is an international competition for the performers of piano, violin, viola, cello, chamber music, and singers. The competition has taken place annually since 1993. The event is h ...

. In addition, she has been a long-time scholarship holder of the German Music Foundation. For those extraordinary accomplishments, she was honored by her hometown

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with the Cultural Award. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Lea Birringer collaborated with artists like

Pavel Vernikov Pavel Vernikov ( ukr, Павло Верніков) is a Ukrainian violinist, a member of Vienna University and a winner of Munich International Competition. Biography Vernikov was born in Odesa where he graduated from the Stolyarsky Music School w ...

, Paul Rivinius,

Atar Arad Atar Arad (Hebrew: עתר ארד; born 8 March 1945) is an Israeli American violist, professor of music, essayist and composer. Biography Arad and his brother, architect Ron Arad, were born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Arad began his training on the vio ...

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, Eszter Haffner, Wen-Sinn Yang and Igor Levit. In 2011 Lea Birringer had a big chamber music breakthrough in collaboration with her sister and permanent Duo partner Esther (Piano). The siblings caused a furor by winning two prestigious international chamber music competitions consecutively, Premio Vittorio Gui and Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera Città di Pinerolo. Since then they have received numerous invitations from chamber music festivals and concert series, and have impressed audiences with their "style and full-blooded commitment." Lea Birringer's solo album Di tanti palpiti (2019), which has received critical acclaim and radio play, has also earned her a Supersonic Award as well as nominations at the 2020 International Classical Music Awards and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Lea Birringer started playing the violin at the age of three. She studied at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg under

Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (born 9 May 1931) is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At ...

, followed by

at the Conservatory in Vienna. She graduated both universities with honors. From 2012 to 2013 Lea was teaching as assistant of

at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, Site de Sion. At present, she is guest teacher at the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni in Italy. She has been a lecturer at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar since May 2022. In 2020, when the usual concert schedule had to be largely suspended due to the

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, Lea Birringer contributed to Deutschlandfunk Kultur's "Geisterkonzertreihe" (Ghost Concert Series) with a highly acclaimed solo recital. with works by

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

Ernst-Lothar von Knorr Ernst-Lothar von Knorr (2 January 1896 – 30 October 1973) was a German composer, music educator and civil servant. The years until 1933 Born in Eitorf, Knorr grew up in Bonn. His parents were the pharmacist Dr. chem. Karl Ferdinand von Knorr a ...

and Lera Auerbach, among others, she spanned the spectrum from the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

to the modern.

Discography

* 2014: ''Szymanovski, Hindemith, Respighi: Works for violin & piano'', Published by Avi-Service for music * 2015: ''Federigo Fiorillo: Violin Concerto, Sinfonia Concertante'', with Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni, Published by Brilliant Classics * 2018: ''Lifelines - Grieg, Liszt, Franck: Violin Sonatas'', Published by Rubicon Classics * 2019: '' Di Tanti Palpiti'' with compositions by

Henryk Wieniawski Henryk Wieniawski (; 10 July 183531 March 1880) was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer and pedagogue who is regarded amongst the greatest violinists in history. His younger brother Józef Wieniawski and nephew Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski were al ...

Pablo de Sarasate Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish (Navarrese) violin virtuoso, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include ...

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

, Niccolò Paganini, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Franz Waxman and

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

, Published by Rubicon ClassicsRelease on Rubicon Classics
- retrieved on 14.08.20189 * 2021: '' Transformation'' with compositions by

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Legend of the Ysaÿe violin Eugène Ysaÿe ...

, Lera Auerbach,

and

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

Published by Rubicon Classics * 2022: '' Mendelssohn and Sinding: Violin Concertos.'' Published by Rubicon Classics

References

External links

Official website

YouTube-channel
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Lea Birringer on Spotify
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