When and where was your first concert with the MCO? My first concert with the MCO was in Ferrara.
What’s the best thing about playing with the MCO? It’s the enthusiasm of everybody to make the best of every concert.
Can you tell us something about your instrument? Since I lost my very nice viola on the train to the airport last year and I luckily got it back I am even more in love with my instrument.
What is the most difficult aspect of your job? The most difficult aspect of being on tour is not being at home with my husband and kids. If you could play another instrument what would it be? I would love to choose cor anglais.
BIOGRAPHY Susanne Linder (née Lerche) was born in Munich in 1971 and currently lives with her family in Berlin. She has been a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2001. Susanne studied with Johannes Lüthy in Freiburg im Breisgau. She continued her studies in Saarbrücken with Diemut Poppen and finished there with distinction.
Susanne Linder has taken part in master classes with Hatto Beyerle and has worked with Barbara Westphal, Thomas Riebl, Walter Levin and Thomas Kakuschka.
Together with her string quartet, Susanne has won many prizes (first prize in the national competition Jugend musiziert, first prize in the Europe-wide Charles Hennen Concours, second prize in the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Preis der deutschen Musikhochschulen). She received a fellowship from the Villa Musica to pursue her studies in chamber music, and as part of this fellowship played with artists such as M. Ostertag, W. Brandis, U. Rodenhäuser and P. Demenga. Since 2006, Susanne Linder has been a member of the Adarnello Quartet, which was formed with members of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Berlin, with whom she also performs.
Besides, Susanne plays with orchestras such as Südwestrundfunk Freiburg, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk and Staatskapelle Dresden.
As part of her interest in the physical consciousness of playing, Susanne Linder is trained as a Feldenkrais expert and runs her own practice in Berlin.
