Having made successful solo debuts with orchestras including the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Harbin Symphony Orchestra in China in recent years, Felicitas Schiffner has already shown herself to be an outstanding virtuoso. 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 and the Jordan Hall in Boston. Internationally, she has performed in countries such as 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, Karl-Heiz Steffens and Alexander Hülshoff. She has also performed as part of the Boston chamber orchestra “A Far Cry” during her studies in Boston.
Born in 1997 in Lübeck, Germany, Schiffner grew up in a music-loving environment and received her first violin lessons at the age of 4 from her mother. After further studies with Vladislav and Denis Goldfeld, 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. 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 (China), the International Rubinstein Competition for Strings and most recently, in 2022, the Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition. She is also a "Young Artist" at Thomastik Infeld Vienna and is supported by Echo Arts Munich.
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.
