Born 1984 in Munich, Germany, Lena Neudauer began playing the violin at the age of three. At the age of ten she performed her first concert with orchestra, one year later she started to study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Helmut Zehetmair, later with Thomas Zehetmair and Christoph Poppen. She also received significant ideas from Felix Andrievsky, Ana Chumachenco, Midori Goto, Nobuko Imai and Seiji Ozawa.
In 1999, Lena Neudauer sparked sensation at the Leopold Mozart International Competition in Augsburg, where she won the 1st prize, and was also awarded the Mozart Prize, Richard Strauss Prize for the best interpretation of Richard Strauss’ Violin Concerto and the Audience Prize.
Since then, Lena Neudauer has been playing with numerous orchestras such as MDR Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Collegium Musicum Basel, Orchestra die Padova e del Veneto, and Orchestre National de Belgique under conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Mariss Jansons, Hannu Lintu, David Stahl, Mario Venzago, Wojciech Rajski, Bruno Weil, Marcus Bosch, Frank Beermann, Howard Griffiths, Christoph Poppen, Ari Rasilainen, Pietari Inkinen Juri Gilbo, Antonello Manacorda, Andreas Spering, Dirk Kaftan, Reinhard Goebel and Pablo Gonzalez.
Lena Neudauer has also dedicated herself to the performance of contemporary music and has worked, amongst others, with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez as also with the Österreichische Ensemble für Neue Musik (OENM). In her artistic activities, chamber music plays a significant role, which together with her solistic performances, also led her to perform in Festivals such as the Mozart Week in Salzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Gaia Chamber Music Festival Thun, the Festival Musical Olympus in St. Petersburg, Chopin and his Europe Festival Waschau, Settimane Musicali in Ascona and the Flandern Festival. Currently she is working together with artists such as Julian Steckel, Matthias Kirschnereit, Julia Fischer, Herbert Schuch, Nils Mönkemeyer, Paul Rivinius, William Youn and Lauma Skride.
At the age of 26, she was appointed Professor for violin at the Saar University of Music. Since 2016 she holds a professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She plays on a Lorenzo Guadagnini from 1743 and a Philipp Augustin from 2015.
