Concert Master

Katja Lämmermann

Katja Lämmermann received her first violin lessons at the age of three using the Suzuki method. After training with Ana Chumachenko at the Munich Musikhochschule, she studied with Miriam Fried at the School of Music in Bloomington/USA on a scholarship from the DAAD and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. From 2003-2005 she studied with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, funded by the Gerd Bucerius Foundation, and since 2004 has worked closely with him as a teaching assistant. In 2006, she completed her studies with Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music with a concert exam. She has taken part in international master classes with Herman Krebbers, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Leonidas Kavakos, Christoph Eschenbach and Gidon Kremer, among others.

Katja Lämmermann was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation “Live Music Now”. In addition to a first national prize at “Jugend musiziert” (1994), she received the “Ruth-Flesch-Gedächtnispreis” in 1998. In 1999 she was a prizewinner at the “Internationalen Violinwettbewerb Kloster Schöntal” and in the same year she was awarded the “Richard-Strauss-Sonderpreis” for the best interpretation of a violin sonata at the 4th International Violin Competition “Leopold Mozart” in addition to 3rd prize. In 2003, she won 2nd prize at the “Viotti-Valsesia” International Violin Competition. She has won several prizes in the German Musical Instrument Fund competition. In 2005, she was awarded 3rd prize in the 54th ARD Music Competition in the category “Violin solo”.

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 under Jakov Kreizberg. She has performed chamber music alongside Frans Helmerson, Clemens Hagen, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Lorin Maazel, among others.

In the 2002/2003 “Rising Stars” season, she played a series of debut recitals sponsored by the European Concert Halls Organization (ECHO) 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), among others.

She was concertmaster of the Camerata Salzburg and deputy concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin and has been concertmaster of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz since 2011.