Sara Göbel

Violine

Testimonials

Voices from mentors, musicians, and the press.

Prof. Timothy Chooi

Associate Professor of Violin & Head of Strings at the University of Ottawa

Sara is an outstanding visionary and artist ….she carries the mentality to boldly stride into the 21st century while bringing the timeless musicality of an old soul.

Prof. Ulf Schneider

Professor für Violine an der HMTM Hannover

Ich schätze Sara als eine außergewöhnlich talentierte, fantasievolle, sensible und hochmotivierte Geigerin. Sie sprüht voller Ideen, die sie mit großer Begeisterung und geigerischem Können musikalisch umsetzt. Ihr Spiel ist ausdrucksstark und flexibel, und sie verfügt über alle geigerischen Möglichkeiten für eigenständige Interpretationen.

By Michael Schäfer

Göttinger Tageblatt

Zusammen mit dem Göttinger Symphonieorchester begeisterte die Solistin am Donnerstag in der Lokhalle ihre Zuhörer mit ihrem hochvirtuosen, leidenschaftlichen Spiel.

By Michael Schäfer

Göttinger Tageblatt

Die junge Musikerin (…) spielt mit feurigem Temperament, mit geradezu riesigem Ton.

By Michael Schäfer

Göttinger Tageblatt

Sie war den enormen virtuosen Anforderungen dieses hochromantik schwärmerischen Konzerts in einem Maße gewachsen, wie man es in dieser Altersstufe nur selten erlebt.

Biography

German violinist Sara Göbel is currently pursuing a Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studies with Prof. Alexander Gilman as an RCM Scholar.

Since 2023, she has been a member of the LGT Young Soloists. With the internationally renowned ensemble, she performs on stages around the world, appearing regularly both as a soloist and as an ensemble member. Concert tours have taken her throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, including performances at renowned concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tonhalle Zürich and Victoria Hall Singapore. She has also performed with the LGT Young Soloists at festivals including the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and has contributed to professional studio recordings.

Alongside her work with the LGT Young Soloists, Sara Göbel regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed with ensembles including the Göttinger Symphonieorchester, participated in the Renaud Capuçon Chamber Music Week, and in 2023 won the University of Ottawa Chamber Music Competition with her string quartet. Further important artistic engagements and experiences include the Notos Chamber Music Academy, The Holland Music Sessions, Heidelberger Frühling, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the Sarasota Music Festival in Florida, and the PRISMA Festival in Canada.

Born in Hannover in 2002, Sara Göbel began her musical education at the Institute for Early Promotion of Musical Excellence (IFF) Hannover, where she studied with Meike Bertram from 2016 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021, she continued her studies as a pre-college student at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover with Prof. Ulf Schneider, with whom she subsequently completed her Bachelor’s degree from 2021 to 2026.

During the 2023/24 academic year, she also studied abroad at the University of Ottawa with Prof. Timothy Chooi.

Sara Göbel has received artistic guidance in masterclasses with Alexandra Conunova, Ingolf Turban and Catherine Cho, as well as through encounters with distinguished musicians including Ana Chumachenco, Midori, James Ehnes, Ning Feng, Martin Brauß, Eberhard Feltz, Rainer Schmidt and Jörg Widmann.

She also has extensive orchestral experience, having performed with the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and since 2023 regularly performs as a substitute player with the State Orchestra of Lower Saxony.

Sara Göbel is a multiple national prizewinner of the German competition “Jugend musiziert” and has received, among other distinctions, the Eduard Söring Prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. She is a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk and was a long-standing scholarship recipient of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hannover. As a prizewinner of the 29th competition of the German Musical Instrument Award, she played a violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner (Bonn, 2005) on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben from 2022 onwards.

Musical Education

  • since 2026 Master of Performance – Royal College of Music, London
    Prof. Alexander Gilman
  • 2023–2024 Study abroad – University of Ottawa
    Prof. Timothy Chooi
  • 2021–2026 Bachelor’s degree – University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
    Prof. Ulf Schneider
  • 2019–2021 Pre-college studies – University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
    Prof. Ulf Schneider
  • 2016–2019 Early studies – Institute for Early Promotion of Musical Excellence (IFF), Hannover
    Meike Bertram

Schedule

Overview of upcoming concerts and performances.

21 September 2026

Concert with the LGT Young Soloists

  RCM London, UK
  September 21, 2026
25 September 2026

Concert with the LGT Young Soloists

  Vienna, Austria
  September 25, 2026
04 October 2026

Benefit Concert of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben

  Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Germany
  October 04, 2026
  8:00 PM Read more
09 October 2026

Concert with the LGT Young Soloists

  Vienna, Austria
  October 09, 2026
20 October 2026

Quartet Concert with the LGT Young Soloists

  Bendern, Liechtenstein
  October 20, 2026
02 November 2026

Concert in Hamburg

German Tour with the LGT Young Soloists

  Elbphilharmonie (Kleiner Saal), Hamburg, Germany
  November 02, 2026

You can find the full list here. Read more

Musical Roots

Links to foundations, orchestras and musical partners.

Die Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben

Die Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben

The LGT Young Soloists

„The LGT Young Soloists are clearly one of the finest youth orchestras in Europe“

Live Music Now

„Musik heilt, Musik tröstet, Musik bringt Freude“
Yehudi Menuhin

HMTMH

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover




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