Annelie Gahl

Annelie Gahl gained international reputation through her Solo recordings combining classical and baroque repertory with contemporary pieces for solo violin. The Strad Magazine talks of an auspicious an exciting solo debut, the Salzburger Nachrichten certify splendidly focused "violin art" and the German magazine Ronde labelled "Melodies and Harmonies", which was awarded the Austrian Boroadcast Companys' Pasticcio Prize, as the possibly most beautiful Cage recording in many years. 

Annelie Gahl was awarded the Anton Bruckner Prize and the Paula Boleszny Prize. As a soloist, she has received enthousiasm by her Austrian premiere of both the violin concerto by Armanda Maier Röntgen (1875) and the concerto for violin and horn by Ethel Smyth (1928). Besides she has appeared with a repertoire from Vivaldi, Beethoven to Steve Reich with Camerata Salzburg, Kammerphilharmonie Salzburg, in Salzburg, Linz and at the Wiener Musikverein. 

Furthermore, her devotion to Contemporary Music is responsible for her versatile and lively work. She is a regular guest with the Klangforum Vienna and her creative solo programs, often performed in combination with dance, literature and visual art, took her to many international festivals. 

Besides her work with Camerata Salzburg and Concentus Muusicus she has performed as a chamber music partner along with Benjamin Schmid, Ivry Gitlis, Valentin Erben, Lukas und Veronika Hagen, Michael Kofler, ao. With big gratitude to her teachers Paul Roczek, Ernst Kovacic and Shmuel Ashkenasi and having had the bliss to work for years with Sandor Vegh and Nikolaus Harnoncourt ,nowadays teaching became a big focus in her diary .

She  holds a chair for violin at the Universität Mozarteum,and regularly gives masterclasses and chamber music coaching in Austria, Israel, Germany, Moscow and China.