Katharina Auer

Born in Linz in 2002, Katharina Auer, recipient of the Youth Promotion Award of St. Pölten, the capital city of Lower Austria, began her study of the violin at the age of five. She debuted as a soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto in B-flat Major with the orchestra of the theater in Baden at the age of 13 and was accepted into the violin class of Christian Altenburger at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna at the age of 16. She has participated in master classes with Zakhar Bron, Augustin Hadelich and Mihaela Martin, among others, and in 2023 and 2024 took part in the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Katharina Auer has performed as a soloist with the Jena Philharmonic, the Brno Philharmonic and the Webern Sinfonietta, and worked with conductors such as Markus L. Frank, Georgi Dimitrov and Vladimir Kiradjiev. In June 2024, she was featured as soloist in the Dvořák Violin Concerto with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava.

Diverse orchestral projects have allowed Katharina Auer to gather experience in chamber ensembles as well as large symphonic orchestras. She was the concertmaster with the Webern Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding for a concert in 2023 in which Bruckner's 5th Symphony and Widmann's Viola Concerto with the soloist Antoine Tamestit were performed in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. 

Katharina has received first and other special prizes at national and international competitions, including several national prizes at prima la musica, Musica Juventutis, the Stefanie Hohl Competition, the Kloster Schöntal International Competition for Violin, the International Georg Philipp Telemann Violin Competition Poznań and the Beethoven Hradec International Violin Competition in Opava. Since 2022, she has been a scholarship holder from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Live Music Now.