Professors

Viola

Thomas Riebl

Thomas Riebl was born in Vienna. He studied with Siegfried Führlinger, Peter Schidlof and Sandor Végh. At the age of 16 he made his debut at the Konzerthaus in Vienna; since then he has given concerts all over Europe and in the USA (including the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, NY), with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Horst Stein, Edo de Waart, Sir Andrew Davies and Sylvain Cambreling. He was guest at many renowned international music festivals (e.g. Salzburg Festival), and performed with Jessye Norman, Brigitte Fassbaender, Auréle Nicolet, Gidon Kremer, Benjamin Schmid, Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Tabea Zimmermann, Natalia Gutman, Boris Pergamenschikow, Steven Isserlis, Sabine Meyer, Andras Schiff, Oleg Maisenberg, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lars Vogt and the Juilliard String Quartet.

Thomas Riebl won 1st prize at the international Naumburg viola competition in New York in 1982.

1972 - 1979 he was violist with the Vienna Franz Schubert Quartet ; 1979 to 2004 he was a member of the Vienna String Sextet. Since 1983 he has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and has given countless master classes at the most important international music universities.

He is the artistic director of the International Summer Academy Bad Leonfelden, Austria and has recorded numerous CDs. In 2010, together with master violin maker Bernd Hiller, he developed a five-string tenor viola, on which he played the Arpeggione sonata by F.Schubert, Beethoven's sonata op.5 / 1, the sixth cello suite and the viol sonatas by JSBach, the clarinet concerto by Mozart (in the original version for basset clarinet) as well as new works written for the instrument