Born in Cologne in October 1999, Linda Guo received tuition in violin and piano from the age of five. At nine she became a junior student at the Pre-College Cologne with Ute Hasenauer (violin) and Nina Tichman (piano); she completed her bachelor’s degree in violin in 2023 with Mihaela Martin at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and continued her master’s studies with Erik Schumann in Frankfurt. At ten she won the Premier Grand Prix at the Flame competition in Paris, later first prizes at the Arthur Grumiaux Competition and the Max Bruch Competition as well as prizes at Jugend musiziert; in 2016 she received the NRW-Nachwuchspreis Musik, and in 2018, at the age of 18, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall. After the academy of the WDR Sinfonieorchester (2022–2024) she has been a member of the first violins of the orchestra since September 2024. She plays chamber music regularly with her brother, the pianist Yuhao Guo, and the cellist Manuel Lipstein. She plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Parma, 1769). She plays piano on the Undine album Doc Heilein and Friends Gala 2021 – Joyful (2022).
Linda Guo
Violin
