Stephanie Lepp

Flute & Bansuri

Stephanie Lepp grew up as the daughter of composer Gunter Lepp in Spielberg/Germany, where music, art and creativity already played a major role in her childhood.

At the age of 10, she began to learn the flute with Berthild auf dem Kampe, among others. At the age of 18, she won the national prize ‘Jugend Musiziert’ and went on to study classical flute with Professor Robert Winn at ‘Hochschule für Musik und Tanz’, Cologne. She then took further flute lessons with Mario Caroli in Strasbourg, France. She is a long-standing scholarship holder of ‘Yehudi Menuhin - Live Music Now’. After being nominated for the prestigious Gaudeamus Music Prize Amsterdam with a solo improvisation in 2008, she met Markus Stockhausen through the composer Michael Daugherty, who encouraged her artistic development and with whom she attended numerous courses. From 2010 to 2022, she took bansuri lessons with Dinesh Mishra, where she continued her training in Indian ragas and improvisation, and from 2015 to 2019 she attended the Ziryab Academy for World Music in Stuttgart. She takes part in numerous masterclasses with Trilok Gurtu, Rüdiger Oppermann, Karl Berger and Randy Brecker, among others, and her encounters with Jorge Pardo and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia are particularly inspiring for her.

Concert tours have taken her to Turkey, Spain, Italy and Georgia, among other places. As a freelance musician, teacher and composer, Stephanie Lepp follows her own artistic path and delights audiences with her virtuoso and expressive flute playing.

Together with cellist Levan Andria and pianist Marko Mrdja, she founded the TRIO SOUNDRISE in 2023 and the SOUNDRISE QUARTET with Kurt Fuhrmann (drums/percussion) in 2024.

In 2017 she met Levan Andria and founded the Duo Flying Tree with him. Since then, she has been following her own creative musical path together with him...