Violinist and OPUS KLASSIK prize winner Mareike Neumann has been a member of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn since 2011. She also devotes herself enthusiastically to both early and new music.
She plays in various baroque ensembles, such as the Sweelinck-Barock-Orkest Amsterdam, Concerto Ispirato, the Kölner Akademie or Concerto con Anima.
In the Detmold Ensemble Horizonte for contemporary music, she works with renowned composers and can be heard in special concert formats, world premieres and radio recordings.
In 2020 she founded the Bach by Bike Ensemble together with Anna-Luise Oppelt. With this ensemble, she has performed at the Kulturfest Brandenburg, the WESERFESTSPIELEN, the MDR Music Summer, the Köthener Bach Festival, the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival and the Bach Archive Leipzig.
Concert tours have also taken her to numerous countries, including South Africa, Egypt, China, Colombia, the USA and to music festivals such as La Chaise-Dieu, the Gustav Mahler Festival, the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the Days of Macedonian Music in Skopje and the Nasimi Festival in Azerbaijan.
After studying at the conservatories in Frankfurt and Detmold with Prof. Walter Forchert, Prof. Elisabeth Kufferath, Prof. Ulrike-Anima Mathé and a minor in baroque violin with Prof. Petra Müllejans, she first had engagements with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Museum Orchestra Frankfurt.
She was also influenced by master classes with the Auryn and Mandelring Quartets, Prof. Priya Mitchell, Prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski, Prof. Eberhard Feltz and Prof. Donald Weilerstein.
She also completed training in Alexander Technique and musician coaching according to Josephs.
Mareike Neumann, who is passionate about cycling in nature in her free time, is co-founder and initiator of the musically guided bike tours »Bach by Bike« (www.bachbybike.com). With this project, she won the international Music Cities Award in the category Best Use of Tourism to Drive Music in 2021 and the OPUS KLASSIK in 2022.