Photo: Sylvia Feldhaus

Leonie ten Hagen won the Ferdinand-Trimborn-prize NRW and the first prize at the German national competition Jugend musiziert. As a soloist, she performed with the symphony orchestra of the Orchesterzentrum NRW under the direction of Marcus Bosch in the Konzerthaus Dortmund, with the Detmolder Kammerorchester and Alfredo Perl, with the Sinfonieorchester der Schaumburger Landschaft conducted by Siegfried Westphal and with the Philharmonische Gesellschaft Düsseldorf and Hans Jürgen Wolf.

She was invited to the Savonlinna-Festival in Finland and the Zermatt-Festival in Switzerland and played several concert tours under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Franz Welser-Möst, Ingo Metzmacher, Myung-Whun Chung and Philippe Jordan as a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. She is a scholarship holder of the Albert Eckstein Foundation. Already at the age of eleven she was admitted to the Musikhochschule Münster as a young student. In 2010, after studies with Marco Rizzi and Eckhard Fischer she was awarded her Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She attended master classes with Olivier Charlier, Petru Munteanu, Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim and Stephan Picard.