Paula Breland

The clarinettist Paula Breland was born in Leverkusen in 1997. She received her first clarinet lessons at the age of 15 with Eddy Vergauwen. Just one year later she successfully reached the national competition Jugend musiziert and became a member of the Landesjugendorchester NRW. She completed her studies with Prof. Johannes Peitz and Ulf-Guido Schäfer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with distinction; she subsequently completed her postgraduate studies with highest honours under Jens Thoben at the Lübeck University of Music.

With her trio [ k l a ː ŋ ʃp ɛ k t r ʊ m ] for contemporary music, she is a prize-winner of Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2021. The trio also won the Special Prize of the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation, the Special Prize New Music of the Ensemble Academy Freiburg, the international Concorso Val Tidone 2021 in Italy and the German Accordion Music Prize 2021. In October 2022, the ensemble's debut CD will be released on the Leipzig label GENUIN.

In 2016, together with accordionist Anna-Katharina Schau, she received a scholarship from the region Hanover as Duo Amabile and shortly afterwards became a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Live Music Now. For the 2022/23 season, the duo was accepted into the concert promotion programme of Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. In 2020, Breland was awarded the Hannover Student Union Prize. In 2022, she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation.

She gained orchestral experience in the Jugendsinfonieorchester of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony, the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg and the Ensemble Geräuschkulisse e.V., among others. She was also active on the board of the Lower Saxony Young Philharmonic Orchestra. Breland received further musical impressions in master classes with Prof. Manfred Lindner, Prof. Thorsten Johanns, Prof. Thomas Lindhorst and Prof. Kilian Herold.

In addition to her artistic activities, she gained pedagogical experience at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine in Hanover, and as a clarinet teacher at the Kreismusikschule Peine.