Biography

Yuna Dierstein was born in 2007 into a German family of musicians. At the age of four, she began her first cello lessons with Insa Huelbusch. From 2013, she was with Annekatrin Beller for two years and then received lessons from 2015 to 2019 with Markus Tillier. In the winter semester of 2019, she was accepted as a preparatory student (FAB) at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, where she was taught by Beverly Ellis until the summer semester of 2022. She has been in the class of Prof. Jean-Guihen Queyras since the winter semester of 2020. 

Yuna received further musical impulses from master classes from Prof. Roel Dieltiens, Peter Thiemann, Prof. Hillel Zori and Prof. Jens Peter Maintz and from regular lessons from Prof. Christoph Dangel (baroque cello). She is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities that take place there. 

Since 2013, Yuna has won numerous 1^st prizes at the “Jugend Musiziert” competition and a 1^st prize at the “Competition of the Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg” in 2018. In 2022, she received the 1^st prize at the “International Music Competition Musica Goritiensis” in Italy, the 1^st prize with full points at the national competition “Jugend Musiziert” in the categories cello solo and early music ensemble as well as the 1^st prize in the “8^th International Dotzauer Competition for Young Cellists”, at which she was also awarded the special prize of the jury. 

Since 2021, she has been a permanent member of the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Baroque Ensemble (LJBO). 

The Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben made available to Yuna from the musical instrument fund a cello by Wolfgang Schnabl, Bubenreuth 1997.