Lena Neudauer
The German violinist Lena Neudauer was a child prodigy in a country where musicians usually follow a more traditional training path. She has gone on to a successful career as an adult and is also a noted educator.
Neudauer was born in Munich in 1984, and took up the violin at age three. By ten she had played a concert with an orchestra, and she enrolled at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, in the school's junior program, the following year. Her 12th year also saw her perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos with members of the Munich Philharmonic, not only in Germany but also on tour in Japan. Soon she was winning prizes: first prize in the International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in 1999, and the Pro Europa European Culture Prize of the European Cultural Foundation the following year. She continued to study with Thomas Zehetmair as she entered the Mozarteum's adult program, also working with Christoph Poppen. Neudauer also took master classes with Midori Goto and Seiji Ozawa, among others. She has worked with major orchestras in Germany and elsewhere, including the Nuremberg Symphony, the MDR Symphony, and the Symphony Orchestra of India. As a chamber musician, she has devoted herself often to contemporary music, working with both Pierre Boulez's prestigious Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik in Austria. A familiar presence at German and Austrian festivals, she has appeared at the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, among others. In 2010, at just 26 years old, Neudauer joined the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany; she moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich in 2016.
Neudauer's recordings include complete cycles of the Schumann and Mozart works for violin and orchestra, released by the Hänssler label; the latter cycle was recorded with conductor Bruno Weil and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. In 2018, Neudauer's recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, with the Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester Pforzheim appeared on the CPO label.
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Discography
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Schubert: Complete Violin Sonatas
Lena Neudauer, Wolfgang Brunner
Classical - Released by CPO on 18 Mar 2022
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Rosetti: 3 Violin Concertos
Lena Neudauer, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Johannes Moesus
Chamber Music - Released by CPO on 15 Oct 2021
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Zani: Divertimenti for Violin & Cello
Chamber Music - Released by CapriccioNR on 6 Nov 2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61 & Violin Romances Nos. 1 & 2
Lena Neudauer, Cappella Aquileia, Marcus Bosch
Classical - Released by CPO on 31 Jan 2020
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Mendelssohn : Violin Concertos
Lena Neudauer, Matthias Kirschnereit, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Timo Handschuh
Concertos - Released by CPO on 1 Jun 2018
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Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5 - Adagio in E Major
Lena Neudauer, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Bruno Weil
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 3 Jun 2014
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GAIA Music Festival 2010: Music of Atterberg, Bruch, Schumann & Weiner (Live)
Chamber Music - Released by GAIA Recordings on 22 Jan 2016
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Schubert: Trouts
Silke Avenhaus, Lena Neudauer, Danjulo Ishizaka, When-Xiao Zheng
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 12 Oct 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
GAIA Music Festival 2012: Music of Krenek & Webern (Live)
Tatiana Samouil, Lena Neudauer, Natalia Tchitch, Pavel Gomziakov
Chamber Music - Released by GAIA Recordings on 22 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo