Lena-Maria Buchberger
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Lena-Maria Buchberger was born in Frankfurt am Main and began playing the harp with Esther Groß at the age of eleven. She studied with Prof. Maria Graf at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and with Prof. Xavier de Maistre at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
From 2010 to 2012 she was a scholarship holder of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where she was mentored by Marie-Pierre Langlamet.
As a solo harpist, she has performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has gained experience under Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann and Bernard Haitink.
Concert tours have taken her to Asia, Australia, the USA and through large parts of Europe.
In the 2009/2010 season, she performed in the "Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler" of the German Music Council, and in 2014 she was awarded the Ritter Prize of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation.
Lena-Maria Buchberger has been principal harpist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2013.