LISA SCHUMANN was born near Cologne in 1988 and had first violin lessons when she was four
years old. At the age of eight she started studying with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik und
Tanz in Cologne. She garnered further valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including
Daniel Sepec, Igor Ozim, Mihaela Martin, Sergei Fatkulin, Gerhard Schulz (of the Alban Berg Quartet)
and Vineta Sareika (of the Artemis Quartet). Lisa Schumann has won several awards.
Concert appearances have led her to perform in Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan and Germany.
Lisa Schumann is concertmaster of the Cologne Kammersymphoniker and is regularly called upon to
guest as concertmaster for Hamburg Camerata, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles.
She plays a violin made by Ferdinando Gagliano in Naples (1795).