Paula Šūmane


Paula Šūmane is a Latvian concert violinist and the prize winner of international violin competitions and the Latvian Great Music Award. She is a graduate of Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. Šūmane has collaborated with world-renowned conductors, such as Pinchas Steinberg, Andris Poga, Daniel Raiskin, Normunds Šnē, Sesto Quatrini, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Simone Young, Lawrence Foster, Eiji Oue, and others. As a soloist, Paula Šūmane has performed with various symphony and chamber orchestras, including Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan orchestra, Hofer Symphoniker, Baden-Baden Philharmonic orchestra, Sinfonietta Rīga, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.