Biography

Lina Gronemeyer is a clarinet player born in Bremen, Germany and currently based in the Netherlands and Germany. Her work is centered in the big variety of musical languages the clarinet is at home in, finding her very own sound and way of expressing herself on this versatile instrument. 

Improvisation, honest expression of human emotion in music and virtuous ease are the main forces which are embodied on every step of her musical career.

She graduated with cum laude in classical clarinet performance at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, learning from Professor Reiner Wehle, Bernd Ruf and Jens Thoben.

During her classical Bachelor she had the opportunity to perform together with Sabine Meyer and won a scholarship from the Jehudi Mehudin foundation LiveMusicNow.

Currently she is studying at CODARTS University for the arts in the world music and Jazz department broadening her musical horizon under the guidance of Alex Simu.

From an early age on she had a fascination for world music, playing in the Symphonic Orchestra Riobamba, Ecuador and various Latin Bands from 2015-2016. In 2017 she founded the Klezmerband Vagabund with which she has been performing at the SHMF, Arte Kultur and NDR Kultur. Vagabund had the honor to share a concert with klezmer legend Giora Feidman and is currently publishing their second album. Furthermore Lina got the opportunity to collaborate with Raul Jaurena (Tango), was featured as a Jazz clarinetist with the MHL Bigband and organized and lead a cooperation between the MHL Popschoir and an Orchestra in Ecuador.

Gronemeyer earned academic acknowledgment winning the Almuniprice for outstanding academic perfomance and political engagement and won a third price from the Imbuschpfoundation for her bachelor thesis on the political meaning of Klezmer in postwar Germany

In the upcoming season she will perform in a contemporary opera in the Opera Amsterdam, release the second album with Vagabund and tour with her various projects in Europe.