Barbara Rodio

Barbara Rodio was born in 2000 in Bari, Italy. In 2017 she completed her violin studies with distinction at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari in the class of Maestro Cristiano Rossi. Her studies on the viola at the Umberto Giordano Conservatory as well as her bachelor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz under Prof. Péter Bársony were completed with distinction. In March 2026 she completed diploma studies at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. Thomas Selditz - once again with distinction.

After having made her debut as a soloist in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein in April 2025, she won the audition for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Academy in March 2026.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Barbara Rodio has appeared at the Garda Lake Music Festival, at the FVG Music Festival and at the inauguration of the President of Austria. She won the first prize at the International Music Competition Małopolska with the Euridyce Quartet in 2021. In 2022 she received the first prize as a soloist at the Città di Barletta Competition.

Barbara Rodio has performed as principal violist with, among others, the Webern Symphony Orchestra of the mdw, in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Styria (LJSO), in the LaFil (Filarmonica di Milano), in the Accademia Youth Symphony Orchestra (AYSO), in the Webern Chamber Philharmonic as well as the orchestra of the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Academy in a production of Ariadne auf Naxos. She works regularly with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and the Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli.