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Festival Hohe Tauern - Chamber music series castle concert 2023

Katja Lämmermann

Katja Lämmermann received her first violin lessons at the age of three using the Suzuki method. After training with Prof. Ana Chumachenko at the Munich Musikhochschule, with Prof. Miriam Fried at the School of Music in Bloomington/USA and with Prof. Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, she completed her studies with Prof. Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in 2006 with a concert exam.

She received particular musical impulses through her chamber music collaborations with Herman Krebbers, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Leonidas Kavakos, Christoph Eschenbach, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Lorin Maazel and Gidon Kremer.

Several invitations to international festivals such as Prussia Cove (UK), Ravinia (USA), Suomussalmi (Finland) and Yellowbarn (Vermont) have shaped her enthusiasm for chamber music.

Katja Lämmermann was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation "Live Music Now".

She has won numerous prizes at international competitions such as the Leopold Mozart Competition, Viotti-Valsesia and the 54th ARD Music Competition.

Katja Lämmermann has performed as a soloist with the Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In the 2002/2003 "Rising Stars" season, Katja Lämmermann performed a series of debut recitals sponsored by the European Concert Halls Organization (ECHO), including in Cologne (Philharmonie), Amsterdam (Het Concertgebouw), Athens (Concert Hall), Birmingham (Symphony Hall), Brussels (Palais de Beaux-Arts), Cologne (Philharmonie), London (Wigmore Hall), Stockholm (Konserthus), Salzburg (Mozarteum) , Vienna (Konzerthaus) and New York (Carnegie Hall)

She was concertmaster of the Camerata Salzburg and deputy concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin.

She has been first concertmaster of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz since 2011.

She has worked as a guest concertmaster and section leader with the MDR, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich State Opera and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.

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