Nora Isabel is born in Witten, an university city on the banks of river Ruhr in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Her musical education started, when she became seven years old.

Since then she is taking violin lessons. The last three years she studied with Prof. Andreas Krecher in Düsseldorf. Her second instrument is the piano, on which she has been instructed by Ida Kubelke. Nora Isabel also took lessons in musicianship with her piano-teacher. She studiesd at The City of Edinburgh Music School for a year and is going to continue this autumn at the Robert Schumann University of Music, Düsseldorf, as a junior student.

Nora Isabel early participated in some Chamber music courses and is practicing continously with a string quartet since 2002. Since 2005 she's primaria of the 'Witten String Quartet'. The four have won several first prices and have also took part twice at the national competition of young musicians, 'Jugend musiziert'. Engaged by Federal State Government, they had gigs in 2008 during the International Metropolis-Conference and the Award of the Rescue-Medal by the Prime-Minister. 2009 the Quartet had a first Concert-Tour to Portugal.

Nora Isabel has been concertmaster of the 'LJO - Landesjugendorchester NRW', Federal State Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia. With the 'JKPh - Junge Kammerphilharmonie NRW', Young Chamber-Philharmony of North Rhine-Westphalia, she visited the 2008 festival 'Musique en Côte de Nacre' in France and also had some concerts within the 'JSO - Jugendsinfonieorchester der Tonhalle Düsseldorf', Youth Orchestra of the concert hall in NRW-Capital Düsseldorf. As a member of ESSO - Edinburgh Secondary Schools Orchestra she had her debut at the NAYO-Festival 2009 in Edinburgh and soon was made its concertmaster. The 2010 Spring-Concerts she played within EYO - Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, conducted by Garry Walker.

With LJO NRW she had international tours to Poland, China, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegowina, as well as Portugal. About 90 concerts she played within these high-level youth orchestras, most of them in other countries. There have been several concerts in Paris, its surrounding and the Normandie. The LJO NRW is conducted by Prof. Hubert Buchberger, but also by renowned guest-conductors as Prof. Gerd Albrecht, Nicholas Burton-Page, GMD Hermann Bäumer and others.

Besides several projects like Mozarts 'Magic flute' for an audience of children at the Cologne Opera-House and the much attented performances of Olivier Messians 'La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus Christus' with more than 215 Contributors referring to the 100st birthday of the composer, which have been published on air and on DVD, she took also part at a cross-over project with the Band 'Farfarello' and JSO in the Düsseldorf Concert-Hall.

Many other concerts of LJO NRW have been recorded and broadcasted by WDR Radio, also by Radio and TV-stations in other countries, since Nora Isabel became a member of this Orchestra in 2005.

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