VITA
LISA SCHÄFER

Growing up in a musical home in northern Hesse, Lisa Schäfer received her first piano lessons there. She also showed an early interest in the harpsichord and began her studies in 2008 as a junior student with Prof. Gregor Hollmann at the Kassel Music Academy. After completing her harpsichord studies at the Münster University of Music (Master of Music/Music & Education), she continued her studies with Prof. Christian Rieger at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Master of Music/Instrumental Training).

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Lisa Schäfer is intensively involved in research on damping removal with regard to the playing practice of 18th-century piano music. To present and demonstrate her results, she was invited to the music academies in Cologne, Rostock and

Stuttgart. A publication on this topic was published as part of the EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) congress documentation in summer 2018 (Staccato-Verlag). Lisa Schäfer performs in various chamber music ensembles with musicians who have studied at the Early Music departments of the universities of Leipzig, Nuremberg, Essen, Cologne, Bremen, and Trossingen. Several premiere recordings on three CDs (Glanzvoller Abschied, MOZART, Bach.Berlin), together with her harpsichord duo partner Gregor Hollmann, also demonstrate her

artistic work. She has also been repeatedly invited as a guest member of the Münster Theater ensemble. Her musical and artistic work corresponds with a great interest in the field of music education.

In addition to teaching keyboard instruments at the Lüdinghausen Music School, she also teaches music theory at the Münster University of Music and has been the head of the

October 2024 the harpsichord class.