Meisterkurs Archive - Allegro Vivo Kammermusik Festival

Edda Andrea Graf

Edda Andrea Graf was born in Vienna and received her musical training at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in Paul Badura-Skoda’s masterclass. She also studied with Ferenc Rados in Budapest and Elisabeth Leonskaja in Vienna. Since 1989, she has worked as a solo and class accompanist at the University of Music and[…]

Martin Rainer

Since 2019, senior lecturer for bass clarinet at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg/Innsbruck branch under PD Mag. Maximilian Bauer and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Mag. Alexander Neubauer, Univ. Prof. Peter Schmidl and Prof. Johann Hindler. Concert performances with renowned orchestras, including[…]

Thomas Carroll

Thomas Carroll is professor for cello at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne since 2018, from 2004 to 2021 professor for cello at the Royal College of Music in London and solo cello teacher at the Yeduhi Menuhin School As a winner of the Young Concert Artist Trust in London and Young Concert[…]

Mario Caroli

Mario Caroli is Professor for flute at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau after teaching more than twenty years at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg and five years at the University of Music in Lugano. Beginning his musical training at the age of 14 and getting his soloist diploma at the age of[…]

Lars Anders Tomter

Lars Anders Tomter is Professor at the Oslo Academy of Music. Founder and artistic co-director of the Risør Chamber Music Festival for 25 years, artistic director of Fjord Classics in Sandefjord since 2017. Plays a viola by Gasparo da Salo from 1590. He studied the violin and viola at the Oslo Conservatory and at the[…]

Andrei Banciu

Andrei Banciu, born in Timisoara (Romania) in 1985, received his first piano lessons from Maria Bodo. Studied with Prof. Klaus Hellwig and Prof. Fabio Bidini, as well as Liedgestaltung with Prof. Wolfram Rieger. Attended master classes with Badura-Skoda, Devoyon, Kämmerling, Pressler and Buchbinder, among others. Numerous prizes at competitions, e.g. 1995 Rovere d’oro (Italy), 2010[…]

Veronika Morscher

Veronika Morscher is an Austrian singer, lyricist and composer. After completing her bachelor’s degree at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, she moved back to Europe, where she completed her master’s degree at the University of Music and Art in Vienna and at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne. Since 2015 she[…]

Maximilian Hornung Portrait

Maximilian Hornung

Since 2014 Professor at the Munich University of Music. One of the leading cellists of his generation. Regular performances as a soloist with renowned orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Vienna Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under well-known and reowned conductors. Invitations to festivals in Schwetzingen, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,[…]

Portrait Anton Sorokov

Anton Sorokow

Prof. Anton Sorokow was born to a musical family in Moscow in 1978. He received his first violin lessons from his mother at the age of four, and at the age of ten began his formal studies at the Central Music School in Moscow with Evgenia Tchugaeva. In 1991, Sorokow moved to Vienna and became[…]

Yoko Kuwahara

Yoko Kuwahara is a concert pianist and first active at the Allegro Vivo Summer Academy in 2023. Numerous concerts as soloist and also chamber musician in Japan, Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Germany; accompanist at international master classes and competitions as well as in several instrumental classes at the conservatories in Lübeck and Rostock; Born[…]