Mosel Musikfestival - Elena Neumann

Elena Neumann performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, and Frédéric Chopin

The 16-year-old pianist is a highly regarded talent of her generation and is currently a crowd puller in our region: Elena Neumann has already thrilled audiences at several performances as part of the mosel musikfestival - this season she will be performing at the cultural and conference venue Synagoge Wittlich. There’s no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
“Music is one of the most beautiful inventions in the world for me and it connects an incredible number of people from different nations,” Elena Neumann emphasized her passion in an interview with the mosel musikfestival. Just recently, the pianist, born in Trier in 2010, was named the main scholarship holder of the “Zukunftsinitiative Rheinland-Pfalz” for the year 2026. The ZIRP, in collaboration with the state foundation Villa Musica, supports outstanding young musicians through annual scholarships. With a funding amount of 12,000 euros, these are among the most prestigious funding programs in Rhineland-Palatinate - and provide invaluable start-up support for an artistic career.

For Elena Neumann, who began her first piano lessons at the age of five, her career path started in 2018 with her admission to the “Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.” Since 2025, she has been an early student at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. She can already look back on an impressive array of awards: for example, she won first prizes at the “Bach Competition for Young Pianists” in Köthen, the “International Bitburg Piano Competition,” and the “International Anton Rubinstein Piano Junior Competition” in Düsseldorf. She received second prizes at the “Steinway Piano Competition” in Hamburg, the “International Piano Competition for Young Pianists” in Kronberg, and the international piano competition “Broumov Key” in the Czech Republic. Additionally, Elena Neumann is a multiple first federal prize winner of the competition “Jugend musiziert.”
She gained concert experience on renowned stages such as the Hamburger Laeiszhalle and at the concert and ball house “Neue Welt” in Zwickau, gave solo concerts at the Bonn Robert Schumann Festival - and has already performed several times at the mosel musikfestival. This season, she will be performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, and Frédéric Chopin with us - on a wonderful Sunday afternoon at the cultural and conference venue Synagoge Wittlich.