The violinist will also focus on the university’s programme for talented pre-college students

Violinist Lea Birringer

Violinist Lea Birringer © Fandel photo and design

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German violinist Lea Birringer has been appointed professor at the University of Music Würzburg, Germany. The faculty is one of Germany’s oldest music education institutions and has a strong tradition of nurturing young talent.  

In addition to her professorship, Birringer will join the leadership team of the pre-college programme, contributing her expertise to the early development of highly gifted young musicians.

Birringer said of the appointment: ‘It’s a great honour to join an institution with such a rich tradition in fostering musical excellence, particularly for gifted young students,’ she said. ‘I can’t wait to mentor, support and inspire the next generation of musicians!’

Birringer is a soloist and chamber musician. At a young age, she became a student at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, before being accepted into the prestigious Gifted & Talented programme at the Leopold Mozart Institute for Encouragement of Talented Students. 

She has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Johannes Brahms, Kloster Schöntal, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Louis Spohr and Abram Yampolsky competitions. As a chamber musician, competition success has come in the form of victories at the Premio Vittorio Gui and Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera Città di Pinerolo. 

As a soloist, she made her debut at the age of 14 with the Berlin Philharmonic. She has since performed in venues such as Vienna’s Musikverein and Munich’s Gasteig and Herkulessaal, and with orchestras including the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, German Radio Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie, Staatskapelle Halle, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Munich Symphony Orchestra, and Robert Schumann Philharmonic.

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