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| Elisabeth Harringer , Violine |
| Born in 1974 in Austria, her talent was first nurtured at the Brucknerkonservatorium in Linz when she was just six years old. Her musical parents encouraged her to play the violin. At 15 she attended the Musikgymnasium Linz to complete her “Matura” |
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| school leaving exams, although music was “setting the tone” in her life. After leaving school she played in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, then in the European Youth Orchestra, at the same time studying in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik. She plays as a chamber musician in many ensembles, is a member of the Zurich Opera and (since 2003) of the |
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| Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich. Apart from music, she travels (at least in her imagination) to India and finds |
| “I love music because it explains life to me. It is my instrument for understanding which of life’s inherent contradictions make me what I am: harmony and dissonance, rhythm and stillness, excitement and boredom – that is what I find exciting. With my violin at my ear, when I am making music I feel life’s vibrations in concentrated form. The intensity that music conveys is also part of life. When I play music, I live.” |
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