Barbara Lüneburg (Violin)
Barbara Lüneburg's work as a soloist and chamber musician has inspired numerous composers to write solo works, violin concertos and chamber music for her. In her carrier, she was awarded prestigious scholarships and various prizes in violin competitions. Barbara studied at Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and Lübeck, in London (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She combines Russian and Western European virtuosic violin tradition with a fresh contemporary approach to music.
Barbara Lüneburg has featured on many CDs and radio productions documenting the versatility and high standard of her performing abilities. Critics have described her playing as 'viciously virtuosic, passionate, translucent, of an amazing capacity for purity of sound and integrity of pitch, detailed and nuanced, expressive and gripping'. Her first solo-CD The Refined Ear (label coviello classics) received international acclamation. Weapon of Choice, her solo DVD with multimedia works was released in April 2011 at label Ahornfelder.
As a soloist she has performed with groups as diverse as SWR Radiosymphonic Orchestra, Xenakis Ensemble Netherlands, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, ASKO Ensemble, Landesjugendorchester Hessen and Rheinland Pfalz, Pfalztheaterorchester Kaiserslautern or Schwerin Philharmonics. Her touring schedule has taken her through Europe, both Americas, the Middle and Far East to major festivals such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival (GB), Wien Modern (AT), Tongeyong Festival - Korea, Roaring Hooves – Mongolia, Cervantino Festival – Mexico, Music Marathon Chicago- USA, Fadjr Festival - Iran, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Munich Biennial and Schleswig Holstein Music Festival - Germany.
Barbara's PhD-research on the topic of "The creative role of a performer as an interface between instrument, composer and audience in contemporary music" includes theoretical and practical work on creativity and collaboration, programming, and concert aura. For this research alone she commissioned almost 30 new solo and chamber music works for violin, viola and electric violin in the years 2008 to 2010. Barbara is co-founder, violinist and artistic director of ensemble Intégrales, Hamburg.
Barbara Lüneburg teaches at Fachhochschule St. Pölten (Austria) and Medienhochschule Darmstadt (Germany), has been invited as lecturer at the European Orchestra Academy, and the ensemble academy Schleswig Holstein (Germany) and has given workshops, talks and seminars at major European and American universities.
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