Annedore Oberborbeck

Annedore Oberborbeck was first concertmaster of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck for 12 years and has been a professor at the Tyrolean State Conservatory since 2013.

In 2025, she was appointed to a full professorship and accepts exclusive invitations as a sought-after guest concertmaster for the Munich Philharmonic, the Camerata Salzburg, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Heidenheim Opera Festival, and the Ensemble Péridot Salzburg, among others.

She is a certified lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Mozarteum Salzburg as part of collaborations with the Tyrolean State Conservatory.

Early excellence promotion is particularly important to her, which is why she is intensively involved in the training of young talents both on the violin and in youth orchestras, such as the Austrian Masterclasses and the International Orchestra Academy of the Tyrolean Festival Erl.

Her students are prize winners of numerous competitions and scholarships.

Born in Hanover, Germany, in 1982, she began playing the piano at the age of 5 and the violin at the age of 7. At the age of 11, Annedore Oberborbeck made her debut as a soloist with the Johann Strauss Orchestra Hanover at the Hanover State Opera.

This was followed by numerous international prizes and awards, including national winner of Jugend Musiziert 1998, winner of the International Yfrah Neaman Competition in Mainz, the International Kingsville Competition in Texas, scholarship holder of the International Pablo de Sarasate Competition in Pamplona, the DAAD, the Ferenc Fricsay Foundation of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation in Hamburg.

The violinist received her training at the University of Music and Drama in Hanover, at the Juilliard School of Music in New York/USA, and graduated with honors from the University of Music in Nuremberg. Important teachers and artists such as Dorothy DeLay, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Daniel Gaede, Igor Ozim, Herman Krebbers, and Yehudi Menuhin had a significant influence on Annedore Oberbeck's career.

She also performs internationally as an outstanding soloist and chamber musician. Her performances of violin concertos by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Max Bruch with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and Ludwig van Beethoven's 10 violin sonatas, performed on three evenings in December 2022 at the Haus der Musik Innsbruck and recorded live for the international label Hänssler Classics, attracted great attention.

Annedore Oberborbeck's concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician have previously taken her to Japan and the USA, as well as to renowned festivals such as the Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Chopin Festival Warsaw, and the Societá del Quartetto Milano, as well as to Carnegie Hall in New York.