Nora Isabel © Friedhelm Pilz 2011
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Nora Isabel is born in Witten, an university city on the banks of river Ruhr in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Her musical education started at the age of seven with first violin-lessons. The last years she studied with Prof. Andreas Krecher in Düsseldorf. Her second instrument is the piano, on which she has been instructed by Ida Kubelke. After a year at The City of Edinburgh Music School she continued her studies at the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media, Düsseldorf, as a junior student. Now the Highschool is finished and she has started her Bachelor studies. In 2011 Nora had her debut as a soloist, playing Mendelssohns Violin-Concerto with New Philharmony of North Rhine-Westphalia at Tonhalle Düsseldorf, convincing an audience of 900 people. Nora Isabel early tried her skills in Chamber Music and is member of a String Quartet since 2002. Three years later she became primaria of the 'Witten String Quartet'. The four young people have won several first prices and also took part twice at the national competition 'Jugend musiziert'. Engaged by NRW State Government, they had gigs in 2008 during the International Metropolis-Conference and the Award of the Rescue-Medal by the Prime-Minister. 2009 the Quartet had its first own Concert-Tour to Portugal. Nora Isabel has been leader of 'LJO - Landesjugendorchester NRW', State Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia. Within 'JKPh - Junge Kammerphilharmonie NRW', Young Chamber-Philharmony of North Rhine-Westphalia, she visited the 2008 festival 'Musique en Côte de Nacre' in France and also had some concerts within the 'JSO - Jugendsinfonieorchester der Tonhalle Düsseldorf', Youth Orchestra of the concert hall in NRW-Capital Düsseldorf. As a member of ESSO - Edinburgh Secondary Schools Orchestra she had her debut at the NAYO-Festival 2009 in Edinburgh and soon was made its leader. The 2010 Spring-Concerts she played within EYO - Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, conducted by Garry Walker. In 2010 she also joined NYOS - National Youth Orchestra of Scotland for its Summer-Tour. Conducted by Diego Masson, there have been concerts in Scotland, Ulster and the Irish Republik. In 2011 she became a member of OFJ - The National Youth Orchestra of France. In two projects this Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, had concert highlights at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin and at Salle Pleyel in Paris. 2012 has carried her over the Atlantic Ocean and she joined the NYOC - National Youth Orchestra of Canada, conducted by Alain Trudel, for chamber music, rehearsals and tour. With LJO NRW she had international tours to Poland, China, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegowina, as well as Portugal. More than 140 concerts she played within high-level youth orchestras, most of them in whole Europe and Overseas. There have been several concerts in Paris, its surrounding and the Normandie. at last at a Festival in the Provence. The LJO NRW is conducted by Prof. Hubert Buchberger, but also by renowned guest-conductors as Prof. Gerd Albrecht, Nicholas Burton-Page, GMD Hermann Bäumer and others. Many concerts of LJO NRW have been recorded and broadcasted by WDR Radio, also by Radio and TV-stations in other countries, since Nora Isabel became a member of this Orchestra in 2005. Beside that, she took a second tour to China with the ODE - Orchester Deutsche Einheit, an orchestra of young musicians from all over Germany. She took part ar several projects like Mozarts 'Magic flute' for an audience of children at the Cologne Opera-House and the much attented performances of Olivier Messians 'La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus Christus' with more than 215 contributors referring to the 100st birthday of the composer, which have been published on air and on DVD. She also has been involved in cross-over projects with the Band 'Farfarello', the Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW and the Musicians of 'K.R.A.S.S.'. News Pictures back
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