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Christine-Maria Höller
Chistina-Maria Höller has taught at the Mozarteum University since 2002 and is active as a lecturer at violin seminars in Europe and South America. In addition to classical works, devotes herself intensively to contemporary compositions, which she has premiered several times as a soloist.
Christine-Maria Höller received violin lessons from the age of seven. She studied with Helmut Zehetmair at the Mozarteum University, graduating with distinction. She completed her postgraduate studies with Lukas Hagen and undertook further training with Igor Ozim. She has attended numerous masterclasses, including with Shmuel Ashkenazy, Gilles Apap, Rony Rogoff, Michael Frischenschlager, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Leonidas Kavakos and Stefan Picard. She has won multiple prizes at national and international violin competitions.
Concert performances have taken her to Salzburg, Vienna, Bayreuth, Dortmund, Prague, Munich, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Music Festival, Zagreb, Istanbul, Argentina and Italy, among others. As a soloist she has performed with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the RSO Prague, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the West German Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Philharmonic, the Capella Istropolitana, the Dvořák Symphony Orchestra Prague, the Orquesta Sinfonica De Salta, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the North German Philharmonic and the Zagreb Philharmonic.
Her chamber music partners include Lukas Hagen, Markus Tomasi, Rico Gulda, Luca Monti, Keiko Hattori, Mari Kato, Gerda Guttenberg, Noriko Shiozaki and Irma Kliauzaite-Franc.