BIOGRAPHY

Aged 4, Louisa received her first violin lessons from Stefan Czermak, the long-time concertmaster of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

A year later, the five-year-old discovered her passion for the piano. Piano teacher Ludmilla Botchkovskaia laid the foundations for a solid education in the years that followed.

Musically talented in many ways, Louisa continued to learn the violin and piano until she decided to lay her main-focus on the piano in 2017, at the age of 11. In the same year, she was awarded with a scholarship from the Andreas Franke Academy and continued her education as a junior student at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg with Prof. Julia Botchkovskaia.

In 2019, Louisa took part in a masterclass in Hamburg with the renowned piano professor Rena Shereshevskaya. The contact with the remarkable professor was an important turning point in her life. From then on, Louisa studied with her, as her teacher at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil Malmaison in France.

In October 2021, Louisa passed the entrance exam to the prestigious École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris (ENMP), also as a student of Rena Shereshevskaya.

Since 2010, Louisa has regularly taken part in national and international competitions including “Jugend musiziert” and the “Steinway Piano Competition”. After winning first prize at the “International Feurich Competition” in Vienna in July 2016, the prizewinner was invited to perform at concerts and festivals in Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Vyatskie in Russia. In 2019, the pianist received two further awards in her hometown Hamburg: the special prize awarded for the first time at the third Chinese-German Competition for Young Pianists and the special ” Wiener Klassik “ prize at the Steinway Piano Competition. The first prize at the German-Chinese competition was combined with an invitation to a concert in Hamburgs twin city Shanghai.

Louisa performed in front of large audiences at several instrumental competitions in the Laieszhalle in Hamburg. In 2017, she gave her first solo concert at Schloss Reinbek and in December of the same year, Louisa performed Joseph Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major with the orchestra “Neue Philharmonie Hamburg” at the Laieszhalle under the direction of Tigran Mikayelyan.

Two years later, Cord Garben, Chairman of the Johannes Brahms Society in Hamburg, invited the young pianist to perform at the society’s 18th New Year’s Concert in Pinneberg. In September 2021, the artist gave a concert with compositions by Bach, Liszt and Chopin at the Lichtspielhaus in Ebstorf. The traditional piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons invited Louisa in July 2022 for the presentation of the limited Steinway Master Piano 8×8 series.

Since 2022, Louisa has increasingly performed abroad. In August 2022, she performed at the “Piano à Saint-Ursanne” festival in Switzerland in the “Young Artists Discovery” category. In the same month, she performed at the “Menton Festival de Musique” in France.

Throughout her studies, Louisa regularly took part in masterclasses, including Rena Shereshevskaya at the ArtenetrA masterclass in Celles-sur-Belle, Dmitri

Bashkirov in Riga, Ilya Scheps and Roger Muraro at the ENMP and Mira Marchenko in Croatia.

In November 2023, she took part at the “Flügel Fundus” foundation audition in Hamburg on recommendation. The foundation supports young pianists who have completed their studies and are pursuing their career. Louisa was awarded a special scholarship and performed together with other scholarship holders at the Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg in January 2024. She was also invited by Renaud Capucon to take part in the “Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad” festival in Switzerland in January 2024.

Louisa received her Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste /Artist Diploma at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique in Paris in May 2024.