Dana Bostedt (born in 2002 in Freiburg) received her first violin lessons at the age of six at the Musikschule Freiburg. Just one year later, she began studying with Jelena Wilke, a violinist at the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra. During the winter term of 2016-2017, she studied at the Freiburg Musikhochschule as a junior student in the class of Prof. Simone Zgraggen. After graduating from high school, Dana began her full studies with Prof. Koh Gabriel Kameda at the Musikhochschule Münster in the fall of 2020. Additional musical impulses were given to her by Prof. Zakhar Bron, Prof. Sophia Jaffé, Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, Prof. Ulf Hoelscher and Prof. Erik Schumann, among others.

The young violinist is a multiple first prize winner of the "Jugend musiziert" competition. In 2015, 2016 and 2020, she won first prizes in the categories "Violin Solo" and "Duo: Piano and a String Instrument" and "String Chamber Music" at the national level. Since the summer of 2017, Dana has formed a permanent duo together with pianist Theresa Heidler, which was also awarded first prize at the national level in Jugend musiziert in 2018. Nominated by the federal jury, the young duo won the WDR3 Klassikpreis of the city of Münster for the best interpretation of a classical work in October 2018. The prize-winner concert was broadcast by WDR 3. In addition, there were prize-winner concerts in Emmendingen, Bissingen and Stuttgart, among other places. The Bostedt-Heidler duo was invited to play in the White Hall of the Neues Schloss Stuttgart as part of the honouring of all first prize winners from Baden-Württemberg in 2018.

Most recently, in autumn 2020, Dana was awarded a special prize by the Bertold Hummel Foundation for the best interpretation of a work of Classical Modernism.

Since 2012, Dana Bostedt has been a regular 1st prize winner of the international Karl Adler Youth Music Competition and has received numerous special prizes, such as the special prize for the best interpretation of a work by a contemporary composer in 2016. This year she was able to premiere the piece "Kurzpsalm für Violine Solo" by the renowned composer Prof. Gilead Mishory.

In 2018, Dana achieved the first prize for an exceptional performance as well as the prize of the "International Music Academy Nigun e. V.", combined with a performance with orchestra in the Stuttgart Liederhalle under Prof. Christoph Wyneken.

Furthermore, the young violinist won the first prize in the "Competition for the Lions Music Prize Violin 2016". In October 2018, Dana received a scholarship from the Crespo Foundation and the Kronberg Academy to participate in the chamber music course "Mit Musik Miteinander" ("With Music Together") in Kronberg and perform with violist Prof. Peijun Xu and cellist Bruno Philippe. Dana Bostedt performed at the Ebneter Kultursommer and the youth music festival "Klong" as well as at the piano duo festival Bad Herrenalb. Further solo concerts took place in the concert series "Text und Ton", at the 36th Lenzkirch New Year's Concert and regularly at "Die Großen von Morgen" (The Greats of Tomorrow) in the concert hall of the Musikhochschule Freiburg. She played a concert with a panel discussion "What is Jewish music?" together with Prof. Lucas Fels (cello) and Prof. Gilead Mishory (piano).

In January 2019, she performed at the invitation of the German Music Council at the Felsenkirche in Helsinki, Finland.

In February 2019, she performed under the baton of conductor Prof. Christoph Wyneken at the Liederhalle Stuttgart.

In March 2019, Dana was invited by the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Mr. Winfried Kretschmann, to play the musical framework for the reception of the consular corps at the New Palace in Stuttgart. Planned for 2020 (and cancelled due to Corona) was the Triple Concerto by Beethoven in the Steinhalle Emmendingen as well as participation in the Gstaad Festival Orchestra.

The young violinist was a scholarship holder at the Moritzburg Festival Academy and gained orchestral experience in the International Regions Symphony Orchestra and as a substitute in the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg. In 2019, Dana was a member of the Landesjugendbarockorchester. In spring 2019 she was awarded the scholarship of the Dominik Pfahlberg Foundation of the Musikhochschule Freiburg, and in summer 2019 she was awarded the sponsorship prize of the Museumsgesellschaft Freiburg.

Since October 2019, Dana is a scholarship holder of the "Live Music Now" foundation.

Since 2017, Dana has been playing a violin by Januarius Gagliano, Naples 1780, which was made available to her after a successful performance at the Landessammlung für Streichinstrumente Baden Württemberg, which she was able to successfully renew for another year in the summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020.