Lara Boschkor gained international attention when she won the first prize and the gold medal of the 7th Henryk Szeryng violin competition in Mexico in 2013 and the first prize of the 12th Carl Flesch Violin Competition in Hungary – as the youngest violinist of the competitions ever. In 2015 Lara won the 1st prize at the Johansen International Competition for Young String Players in Washington D.C. In 2017 she won 1st prize at the International Tonali17 Music Competition in Hamburg (Germany) and in 2021 the 3rd prize at the Paganini Violin Competition.

Lara Boschkor was born in Germany in October 1999, and is of German-Hungarian parentage. She started her studies at an early age at the Precollege Division of the Hochschule für Musik Cologne and Detmold, and then went on to study with Liviu Prunaru at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. 2015 until 2022 Lara studied with Prof. Erik Schumann at the Kronberg Academy, which is run in cooperation with the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 2023 she is continuing her studies with Prof. Kolja Blacher at the “Hanns Eisler” College of Music in Berlin.

Lara Boschkor gave her orchestral debut at the age of eight. Performances at Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Tonhalle Zürich, Tonhalle Zürich Maag, Laeizhalle Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Théâtre Marigny Paris, KKL Luzern, Theatre Odeon Bukarest, Cuvilliés-Theater München, Izumi Hall Osaka, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Théâtre Marigny Paris, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan and Alte Oper Frankfurt followed. In 2014 Lara debuted at the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York and in 2021 at the Wigmore Hall in London. She was a guest at several International Music festivals, among them Rheingau Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Kronberg Academy Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival.

In 2013, at the age of 13 Lara was invited to perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in Japan with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra and conductor Yuki Miyagi. In the same year she has given her soloistical debuts with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Harutyun Arzumanyan at the Aram Chachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan and with the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Enrique Bátiz Campbell. Furthermore, Lara Boschkor performed with the Bergische Sinfoniker, conducted by Alexander Merzyn, Philharmonics Baden-Baden with Pavel Baleff, Heilbronn Symphony Orchestra with Peter Braschkat, Bielefeld Philharmonics conducted by Alexander Kalajdzic, with Jung Norddeutschen Philharmonie, conducted by Daniel Blendulf, with the Hamburg Symphonics under Jeffrey Tate, with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Zaurbek Gugkaev and with the Dresden Philharmonics under the baton of Michael Sanderling. In 2019 she debuted with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and in 2021 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

She plays on a 1735 Santo Seraphin violin from Venice, generously loaned by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.