Having made successful solo debuts with orchestras including the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Baden-Baden and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra in recent years, Felicitas Schiffner has already shown herself to be an outstanding virtuoso. Most recently in April 2026 she gave her debut with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
Schiffner has participated in prestigious festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kronberg Academy Festival, the International Festival of the Academy "Classical Music" Chelyabinsk in Russia and the Matsumoto Festival in Japan and has performed in renowned concert halls like New York City’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston and Laieszhalle in Hamburg. Internationally, she has performed in countries including Japan, China, the USA, Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Russia, Finland and Romania.
A passionate chamber musician, Schiffner regularly performs in chamber music concert series and is a member of several prestigious academies including the Marlboro Music Festival (USA), the Seiji Ozawa Academy (Switzerland) and the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany). Her chamber music partners have included artists such as Nils Mönkemeyer, Hartmut Rohde, Thomas Hoppe, Suyoen Kim, Sharon Kam and Joseph Lin.
She has also performed as part of the Boston-based chamber orchestra “A Far Cry” during her studies in Boston. As a conductor she worked together with orchestras like the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and worked as an assistant conductor in a production in the National State Theater Weimar in 2025.
She studied with Erik Schumann in Frankfurt am Main and with Donald Weilerstein and Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA.
Currently she is pursuing an artist diploma with Krzysztof Wegrzyn in Hanover and in addition, orchestral conducting with Ekhart Wycik and Gregor Bühl in Weimar.
She also worked with Vadim Gluzman, Merry Peckham, Laurence Lesser, Kolja Blacher, Christoph Poppen and Petra Müllejans.
Schiffner won several top prizes in international competitions, including the Washington International Competition for Strings, the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, the International Rubinstein Competition for Strings and the Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition.
As an award winner of the 23rd Competition of the German Musical Instrument Foundation‚ “Musikleben”, in February 2015, Felicitas Schiffner was granted a violin built by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris 1863, which is overseen by the Funds of the Hamburg Family property.
