Lucas Biegel
Lucas Biegel is currently studying recorder in the concert class of Prof. Dorothee Oberlinger, Matthijs Lunenburg and Olga Watts at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Concert engagements have taken him to the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (AT) and the Handel Festival Halle (DE). He has also performed at the Liebenberg Flute Festival (DE), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (CH), the Miszla Baroque Academy (HU) and the Forum Alte Musik Sankt Gerold in Feldkirch (AT). His musical activity is mainly characterised by self-organised concerts with a wide variety of ensembles.
In February 2020 he was a finalist at the third Tel Aviv International Recorder Competition (IL) and in 2024 at the German Music Competition in Bonn (DE). In March 2025 he won the special prize of MDR Klassik on the occasion of the German Music Competition in Leipzig (DE).
As a student of the music special classes of the Goethe-Gymnasium/Rutheneum since 1608 Gera, he undertook numerous concert and competition trips to Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the USA (Carnegie Hall) with the school's concert choir from 2010 to 2015. This time had a decisive influence on his basic musical understanding.
His recorder teachers included Marion Franke (Musikschule Heinrich Schütz Gera) from 2003 to 2012, Katharina Schumann (Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar) from 2012 to 2015 and Prof. Myriam Eichberger (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) from 2015 to 2016. From 2016 to 2022, he studied school music with recorder as his main subject at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. He received recorder lessons from Anna Januj, Sheng-Fang Chiu and Prof. Robert Ehrlich. He was a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Choir, has been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since 2016 and received the PROMOS scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service in 2018.
He has refined his musical precision on the recorder in master classes with Erik Bosgraaf, Maurice Steger, Michael Form, Carsten Eckert, Kees Boeke, Walter van Hauwe and Pedro Memelsdorff, among others.