Lina Kochskämper

Lina Kochskämper (*2002, Varel) began her musical education at the age of five on the sopranino and switched to the flute at the age of eight. In cooperation with the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, she was in the preliminary class of the Institute for the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted. She completed her Abitur at the Schloss Belvedere music high school in Weimar, where she was a student of Benjamin Plag and Anna Cuchal. Since 2021, she has been studying with Anna Dina Björn-Larsen at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. In addition, she received regular lessons and attended courses with Wally Hase, Christina Fassbender, Carin Levine, Angela Firkins and Peter-Lukas Graf, among others. She has won prizes at national and international competitions and has received several 1st national prizes at Jugend musiziert. This resulted in a special prize from the German Composers' Association and the German Foundation for Musical Life. She is also a scholarship holder of the Dr. Hildegard Schnetkamp Foundation and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation at Live Music Now. She gained professional orchestral experience as a substitute at the Hanover State Opera, the Braunschweig State Theater and as a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. As a finalist in the German Music Competition 2024, she played as a soloist with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and won the Audience Award as well as a scholarship from the German Music Council with inclusion in the 2025/2026 concert funding program. She has also been an academy member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since August 2024.