Katharina Radlberger (violin), grew up in Austria, where she received degrees in violin performance and in violin pedagogy from the Conservatory for Music in Klagenfurt, the University for Music in Graz and the University for Music in Vienna. Her teachers included Marianne Kroemer, Klaus Eichholz, Helfried Fister and Ernst Kovacic. Katharina was a freelance violinist in Austria and toured throughout Europe, China, Japan, Singapore and the Feroer Islands. She has played at the Musikverein Vienna, the Gewandthaus Leipzig and the Palau de la Catalan in Barcelona and participated in many European Music Festivals including the Segovia Music Festival in Spain and Styriarte in Graz, Austria. Katharina was also a member of Recreation Symphony Orchestra Graz, Capella Leopoldina Graz, The Haydn Akademie Eisenstadt and Concilium Musicum Vienna. Early on during her studies, Katharina became interested in performing early music, which led to additional studies in baroque violin with Susanne Scholz at the Conservatory in Vienna and private studies with Erich Höbarth. Recently, she also has studied with Dana Maiben in Boston. After moving to the US in 2003, Katharina co – founded the ‘Vienna Waltz Ensemble’, was member of the piano trio ‘Trio Orione’ and the string trio ‘Trio Kylix’ in Boston and, most recently started in her new string quartet, focusing on performing music from the romantic area on pure gut strings. Around the Boston area, Katharina is giving solo recitals, her next recital cycle is planned for June 2016. Katharina also is very active as an orchestra musician and member of several orchestras in the Boston area, performing on modern as well as an period instruments. She is member with Symphony New Hampshire, Lexington Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic and Grand Harmonie in Cambridge. She also makes regular trips back to Austria to play with two of her favorite ensembles, Recreation Graz and Capella Leopoldina.
Katharina Radlberger