Biography

Laila Honda was born in Berlin in 2012. She began playing the violin at the age of four and has been taught by Alf Richard Kraggerud since 2019. Since 2024, she has been a student of Peter Rainer at the Bach-Gymnasium. In 2019 and 2022, she won 1st Prize with 25 points each time at the “Jugend musiziert” competition.
Since 2019, she has regularly participated in the “Sommersymfoni” festival in Valdres and the “Ringerike Sommersymfoni” festival in Klækken, Norway. In 2024 and 2025, she successfully took part in the Astona Festival in Switzerland.
Since 2020, Laila has been playing both violin and viola and is a violist in the Children’s Opera Orchestra of the Staatskapelle Berlin. In 2022, as part of “Contakt Junior,” she was awarded both a violin and a viola. In May 2023, she won 1st Prize at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition with the highest score as a violist in her string quartet, with which she regularly performs throughout Germany.