Friederike Heumann studied viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo. She completed her education with a soloist diploma for early music. Afterwards she was a scholarship holder at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and lived there for several years as a freelance musician. As a soloist and as a guest of ensembles such as Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie),Ensemble Café Zimmermann, Le Poème Harmonique, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Bayerische Staatsoper München, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Barocksolisten and others.among others, she can be heard throughout Europe, Canada, Brazil, Japan, the USA and Israel.

With her ensemble Stylus Phantasticus she is a guest of many international festivals, both with instrumental music of the 17th century and with the participation of vocal soloists such as María Cristina Kiehr, Roberta Invernizzi, Andreas Scholl, Victor Torres, Damien Guillon and Furio Zanasi, among others. Since 2010, she has developed various programs of traditional and improvised music, including with fado singer António Zambujo and Turkish singer Nihan Devecioglu.

Under Friederike Heumann's artistic direction, various recordings were released for the Alpha label, as well as "Hortus Musicus - the Music Garden of Johann Adam Reincken" and "L'Harmonie des Nations" - music from the time of Elector Max Emanuel - on Accent. This recording was awarded the "Diapason d'or" and the "4 clés de Télérama". Earlier recordings were also received with great enthusiasm and many awards by international critics (Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, 10 de Répertoire/Classica, 5 Étoiles de Goldberg, 4 clés de Télérama ffff ): the solo albums "Il vero Orfeo" - Arcangelo Corelli's op. V in arrangements for viola da gamba (Accent) and "Solo a viola di gamba col basso" - sonatas for viola da gamba by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Alpha); "Ciaccona - il mondo che gira" with chamber music by Dietrich Buxtehude (Alpha); "Why not here," music for two Lyra-viols with Hille Perl (Accent); "Zeichen im Himmel," the first recording of music by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, with Stylus Phantasticus and Victor Torres (Alpha).

Friederike Heumann teaches viola da gamba and consort at the University of Music Würzburg, as well as at numerous international master classes. For the summer semester 2020 she was appointed professor for historical string chamber music and viola da gamba at the University of Music Würzburg. She is a jury member at international competitions for early music.