Lars Niederstrasser studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp. He also took lessons with Claude Delangle at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique de Paris. After winning eight first first prizes in the national competition Jugend musiziert, Lars made his Concerto debut with the Bochumer Philharmoniker performing the Glazunov Concerto at the age of 18. He also performed as a soloist with, among others, the Braunschweiger Staatsorchester and the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He won a scholarship at the German Music Competition and gave concerts throughout Germany in the season 2010-11. He plays soprano saxophone in the Berlage Saxophone Quartet. The quartet won the renowned Dutch Classical Talent Award 2013 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At the German Music Competition 2011 in Berlin, they won a scholarship and was included in the national selection of the Young Artists Concerts. In 2014 they released their Debut CD SaxoFOLK at the MDG label and in 2017 their second CD In search of freedom. With the German saxophone orchestra Selmer Saxharmonic where he is playing bass saxophone, he recorded "Flying Saxophone Circus" under the direction of Milan Turkovic. The CD won an ECHO Klassik Prize. From 2007-2012 Lars played at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival ORCHESTRA. Furthermore, he played among others with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Essener Philharmoniker. In 2014 he released his solo CD with baroque solo works by Marais, Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach also featuring the Four Baritones with Renaissance music.
