Faculty

Michaela Girardi-Riegler

Senior Lecturer for Violin (IGP & Pre-College)⋅Department String Studies⋅Pre-College⋅Institute for Chamber Music

The Salzburg-born violinist received her musical training at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, at Indiana University in the USA and at the Lübeck University of Music. Her teachers include Paul Roczek, Mauricio Fuks and Shmuel Ashkenasi. Michaela Girardi has been principal violinist of the Camerata Salzburg since 2008 and concertmaster of the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra since 2024. She is also a guest concertmaster with orchestras such as the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra Bad Brückenau.

Since her first solo appearance at the age of eleven, Michaela Girardi has performed as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and others.

Her great passion is chamber music, especially music of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a member of the Callino Quartet (2006–2009), she was influenced by her collaboration with artists such as the Hagen Quartet, Eberhard Feltz, Walter Levin, György Kurtag and Erich Höbarth. Concert tours have taken the violinist to, among others, the Wigmore Hall, the IMS Prussia Cove, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. As a member of œnm. In the Austrian ensemble for new music, in the Ensemble risonanze erranti and in the Ensemble Plus she works intensively with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka, Helmut Lachenmann, Nikolaus Brass and Hector Parra. In 2020 she took on the solo part in the radio premiere of the rediscovered Opus 1 by Hans Werner Henze.

Michaela Girardi teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and gives master classes at the Austrian Master Classes and at the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum University. Your students often win prizes in well-known national and international competitions.