Liisa Randalu
b. March 24, 1986
Liisa Randalu was born in Tallinn, Estonia and grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she started playing the violin. After studying the violin in Stuttgart for two years, she continued her studies on the viola at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Prof. Roland Glassl and later at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin under Prof. Friedemann Weigle (former Artemis Quartet). She also studied String Quartet and Chamber Music at the Cologne University of Music with Prof. Harald Schoneweg (Cherubini Quartet) and at the Reina Sofia School of Music Madrid with Prof. Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet).
She has participated in masterclasses of Michael Kugel, Hariolf Schlichtig and Thomas Riebl. Liisa Randalu is a recipient of scholarships from the Hertie Foundation, the Villa Musica in Mainz, the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
As a soloist and chamber musician Liisa Randalu has won several international competitions. She has played with orchestras such as the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2012, Liisa Randalu is the violist of the Schumann Quartett—winner of the Schubert Competition Graz 2012, the Grand Prix of the „Quatuors a Bordeaux“ Competition 2013, the Jürgen-Ponto-Prize 2014 and the BBC Newcomer Award in 2016. The Quartett plays regularly at halls including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna as well as at all major renown festivals in and outside of Europe. Their CD „Landscapes“ got the German Record Critics’ Award in 2017 and the album „Intermezzo“ together with soprano Anna Lucia Richter won the Opus Klassik Award in 2019. Since 2009, Schumann Quartett has been the Artist in Residence with its’ own series „Erstklassik“ at the Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf and since 2016 the artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Schumann Quartett was also a quartet in residence at the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt in 2016.
Liisa Randalu is also the violist of the Albrecht Mayer Quartet and plays regularly concerts in this formation. With Albrecht Mayer Quartet she has appeared at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling festival, at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Munich Herkulessaal.
Since 2016, Liisa Randalu has been teaching as a guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn and at the Feuermann Conservatory of the Kronberg Academy. Since 2019, she is a lecturer in viola at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Liisa Randalu plays on a viola by Giovanni Pistucci (~1880).
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Liisa Randalu was born in Tallinn, Estonia and grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she started playing the violin. After studying the violin in Stuttgart for two years, she continued her studies on the viola at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Prof. Roland Glassl and later at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin under Prof. Friedemann Weigle (former Artemis Quartet). She also studied String Quartet and Chamber Music at the Cologne University of Music with Prof. Harald Schoneweg (Cherubini Quartet) and at the Reina Sofia School of Music Madrid with Prof. Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet).
She has participated in masterclasses of Michael Kugel, Hariolf Schlichtig and Thomas Riebl. Liisa Randalu is a recipient of scholarships from the Hertie Foundation, the Villa Musica in Mainz, the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
As a soloist and chamber musician Liisa Randalu has won several international competitions. She has played with orchestras such as the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2012, Liisa Randalu is the violist of the Schumann Quartett—winner of the Schubert Competition Graz 2012, the Grand Prix of the „Quatuors a Bordeaux“ Competition 2013, the Jürgen-Ponto-Prize 2014 and the BBC Newcomer Award in 2016. The Quartett plays regularly at halls including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna as well as at all major renown festivals in and outside of Europe. Their CD „Landscapes“ got the German Record Critics’ Award in 2017 and the album „Intermezzo“ together with soprano Anna Lucia Richter won the Opus Klassik Award in 2019. Since 2009, Schumann Quartett has been the Artist in Residence with its’ own series „Erstklassik“ at the Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf and since 2016 the artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Schumann Quartett was also a quartet in residence at the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt in 2016.
Liisa Randalu is also the violist of the Albrecht Mayer Quartet and plays regularly concerts in this formation. With Albrecht Mayer Quartet she has appeared at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling festival, at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Munich Herkulessaal.
Since 2016, Liisa Randalu has been teaching as a guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn and at the Feuermann Conservatory of the Kronberg Academy. Since 2019, she is a lecturer in viola at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Liisa Randalu plays on a viola by Giovanni Pistucci (~1880).
© EMIC 2021
The texts on the EMIC's homepage are protected by the copyright law. They can be used for non-commercial purposes referring to the author (when specified) and source (Estonian Music Information Centre).