ヴァイオリニスト：レア・ビリンガー Lea Birringer
Lea Birringer (born 23 November 1986) is a german classical violinist.
Biography and career
Lea Birringer’s international career began at the age of 14 with her solo debut at the Berliner Philharmonie. Since then, she has been invited to international festivals, like the Salzburg Festival, MDR Musiksommer, Davos Festival, Crescendo Winter Music Festival in Florida, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or the festival LuganoMusica. Other highlights of recent years include, among others, performances at Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Louvre Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Gasteig Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin and Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 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 Baltycka, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Munchner Symphoniker, Jena Philharmonie, Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Sudwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, among others.
Lea Birringer is prizewinner at the international violin competitions Kloster Schontal, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Louis Spohr and Abram Yampolski. In 2008 she was the top winner of the In 2008 she won the International Johannes Brahms Competition. 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 Saarbrucken with the Cultural Award.
An enthusiastic chamber musician, Lea Birringer collaborated with artists like Pavel Vernikov, Paul Rivinius, Atar Arad, Barbara Bonney, 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 Citta 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 committment."Lea Birringer started playing the violin at the age of three.
She studied at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg under Igor Ozim, followed by Pavel Vernikov at the Conservatory in Vienna. She graduated both universities with honors. From 2012 to 2013 Lea was teaching as assistant of Pavel Vernikov at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, Site de Sion. At present, she is guest teacher at the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni in Italy.
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