Frankhauser Lena

Lena Fankhauser is a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As a full scholarship recipient, she has graduated in 2002 from the Juilliard School in New York City with a Master of Music degree. She has also received a Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School. Ms. Fankhauser then completed the post-graduate course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Professor Thomas Riebl.

She has been a top-prize winner in the year 2000 of the Sphinx competition and as a result was featured on a televised PBS documentary. She has played all over the world in many halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Tonhalle in Zürich and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She has also played such film scores as ‘Ali’ in collaboration with Alicia Keys with the song "Fallin". She has also recorded on the Blue Note record label with jazz artists Bob Beldon and Joe Lovano.

Ms. Fankhauser is the founder and artistic director of the chamber music festivals in Bad Ischl and Mariazell and is the president of (CH)AMBER - the association for new chamber music. She plays with Volkskoper Vienna, Camerata Salzburg, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Klangforum Vienna. She also plays often with the Camerata Salzburg. Other groups she has played with include Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Kontrapunkte and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna (RSO).