Lena Neudauer, born in 1984 in Munich, Germany, is a violinist who began playing at age three. Neudauer studied with Helge Thelen and Sonja Korkeala before enrolling at Mozarteum University Salzburg at age eleven, training under Thomas Zehetmair and Christoph Poppen. Her breakthrough came in 1999 when Neudauer won the Mozart Prize and first prize at the 4th International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in Augsburg. In 2010, she became a professor of violin at Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, and since 2016, has held a professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Neudauer has collaborated with notable figures such as Felix Andrievsky and Seiji Ozawa, performing as a soloist with orchestras like the Münchener Kammerorchester under conductors including Dennis Russell Davies and Mariss Jansons. Notable achievements include winning the European Cultural Promotion Prize in 2000.
