Lea Brückner was born in 1997 as the child of German-Czech parents. At the age of seven, she discovered the violin for herself and received her early training in the S-Class, the top promotion program of the Folkwang Music School in Essen. She obtained her bachelor’s degree with Prof Emile Cantor and her master’s degree at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
She won competitions early on, initially with her original instrument, the flute, and from 2007 onwards, exclusively with the violin. She won awards up to the national competition at “Jugend musiziert” and in 2023 the World Classical Music Award in the Modern category and the 1st prize at the Birmingham International Music Competition.
Masterclasses with artists such as Julia Fischer, Bohuslav Matousek, Boris Garlitsky, or Erik Schuman shaped her artistic path. Concerts led her to international music festivals in Hessen, the “Essen-Original” festival, the Beethoven Society in Bonn, or the FiraB! Festival in Spain.
With her duo founded in 2022 with Gábor Ladányi, she has already performed in Paris, Budapest, Brussels, Vienna, and Berlin. The duo arranges classical works in new styles, thus merging classical music with jazz, bossa nova, and Latin American rhythms. The focus is on bringing classical music to a wider audience in a modern version.
In 2021, Lea founded the initiative “Music for our planet”, which advocates for more sustainability in the music industry together with other artists and orchestras. Since then, she has been invited as a speaker and musician, for example, to the Bundestag in Berlin, the world fair “Classical:Next”, or the United Nations World Food Forum in Rome, and before the Pope’s deputies, to speak not only as a musician but also as a climate ambassador about the necessity of climate protection and sustainability in culture. In this context, she is also the moderator for the unique concert series “Green Monday” at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf for the 2023/2024 season. In addition, she studied a second master’s degree in cultural management at the HfMT Hamburg.
As a musician, Lea Brückner lives diversity and does not believe in the profile of a 21st-century artist who exclusively focuses on music, separate from the events of society.
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