Friederike Heumann studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, completing her musical education with a solo diploma in Early Music Performance. Thereafter she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where she lived for several years as a freelance musician.
She has appeared throughout Europe, Canada, Brazil, Japan, in the US and Israel as a soloist and guest musician of numerous ensembles, including Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Le Concert d´Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Ensemble Café Zimmermann, Le Poème Harmonique, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Bayerische Staatsoper (Ivor Bolton), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Ton Koopman), Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Berliner Barocksolisten and others.
Friederike Heumann studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, completing her musical education with a solo diploma in Early Music Performance. Thereafter she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where she lived for several years as a freelance musician.
She has appeared throughout Europe, Canada, Brazil, Japan, in the US and Israel as a soloist and guest musician of numerous ensembles, including Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Le Concert d´Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Ensemble Café Zimmermann, Le Poème Harmonique, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Bayerische Staatsoper (Ivor Bolton), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Ton Koopman), Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Berliner Barocksolisten and others.