Lea Maria Löffler
BIOGRAPHY
Lea Maria Löffler recently was awarded second prize at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition as well as second prize at the renowned 21st International Harp Contest in Israel 2021/2022. In 2018, she won a scholarship at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and got admission to the Konzertförderung Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (National Selection of Young Musical Artists), as well as the special prize of the Verband der Harfenisten in Deutschland.
In 2021, she was awarded the special prize of the Hessen Agentur as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival, in 2022, the Kunstförderpreis of the city of Augsburg and in 2024, the sponsorship award of the GWK – Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V.
She is supported by several foundations, such as the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and the Hans und Eugenia Jütting-Stiftung. In 2016, she was invited by the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung to tour as part of the Best of NRW concert series and present solo recitals. In 2018 and 2020, she received a scholarship for a residence for creative further development at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2023, the Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung supported her interdisciplinary project Strings in Motion.
Lea Maria Löffler is also a versatile chamber musician. She can be heard as part of several different ensembles, such as the Duo Concento (flute-harp), Duo Maingold (saxophone-harp), Duo Pyr (clarinet-harp), Duo Calanthe (violin-harp), and with the Eliot Quartett (string quartet-harp). She has been invited to international music festivals, such as the Heidelberger Frühling and the Beethovenfest Bonn 2021 as well as to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Riad/Saudi-Arabia to take part in a cultural exchange.
As a harp soloist, Lea Maria Löffler has performed with renowned orchestras including the Würzburger Philharmoniker and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
She has gained national and international orchestral experience with orchestras, in particular as a member of the Orchestra Academy of the WDR Sinfonieorchester and currently as harpist of the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig.
Her concerts have been broadcasted by several radio stations including the SWR (Southwest Broadcasting), the WDR (Westgerman Broadcasting), and the BR (Bavarian Broadcasting). Several CD's bear witness to her artistic work.
She discovered her love for the harp at the age of five. Her former teachers include Silke Aichhorn, Andreas Mildner and Mirjam Schröder. From 2008-2013 she studied in the pre-college at the University of Music in Würzburg and from 2013-2016 in the pre-college at the University of Music in Detmold, where she has been continuing her studies since 2016 under the tutelage of Godelieve Schrama. From 2018-2019 she studied in the class of Isabelle Moretti at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.
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