Andrea Lieberknecht

Andrea Lieberknecht, Germany - member of the flute Jury 2014

Born in Augsburg, Germany, Andrea Lieberknecht studied with Paul Meisen at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In 1988, before having reached the end of her studies, she was nominated flute solo at the Munich Radio Orchestra, then in 1991 at the Westdeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra Cologne, position she held until 2002. She won many international competitions (Prague, Kobe, Munich, Colmar, Belgrad) as soloist or in chamber music with the ARCIS Quintet or with pianist Jan Philip Schulze and now leads a brilliant career as an international soloist. She is regularly invited to many festivals in Europe and Japan (Rheingau, Schlewig-Holstein, Hamamatsu, Lucerne, Bucarest) and plays with renown musicians such as Sabine Meyer and Lars Vogz and as soloist with the most reputed orchestras in Germany. Flute solo during three years at the Bayruth Festival Orchestra, she is also a passionate teacher. Sh has given masterclasses in Europe, Japan and Australia and is now professor at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Munich.