Antonia Straka was born into a Viennese family of musicians in 2002 and is now considered one
of the most promising cellists of the young generation.
In the 2023/24 concert season, she was presented as a featured artist of Jeunesse Austria.
In addition to numerous concerts, she played the season opening in the sold-out Golden Hall of
the Vienna Musikverein with Antonin Dvořák's Cello Concerto, which was documented in an ORF
Ö1 live recording.
Antonia Straka is a multiple 1st prize winner at national and international competitions including
Laureate of Musica Juventutis 2020 and winner of the International ESTA Concerto Competition
2022. In fall 2021, she made her debut in the Schubert Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus
and as a soloist with the Slovak Radio Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Vienna
Musikverein. She has performed several times as a soloist in Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the
Next Generation Orchestra of the Vienna Music High School.
In the 2022/23 concert season, she made her debut as a soloist with the Vienna Chamber
Orchestra and performed Tchaikovsky's “Rococo Variations” and his “Pezzo Capriccioso” at the
Vienna Konzerthaus.
In February 2024, she was a guest soloist and lecturer at the IberAcademy in Medellin, Colombia,
where she performed Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major with the local orchestra, played
recitals and conducted a cello ensemble.
In 2025 she will be part of the IMS Prussia Cove, the Ozawa Academy in Geneva, festivals such
as the Weissensee Klassik Festival in Austria and Bonheur Musical in France, as well as following
invitations to projects of the LEAD! Foundation in Finland and the upcoming editions of the
Krzyzowa Music Festival in Poland and Yellow Barn festival in Vermont, USA.
Antonia Straka's busy chamber music activities include collaborations with renowned artists such
as Eszter Haffner, Christian Altenburger, Réka Szilvay, Patrick Demenga, Christoph Zimper, Joji
Hattori, Adela Liculescu, Anton Gerzenberg, Thomas Riebl and Kate Lindsey.
After studying with Maria Grün at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and
László Fenyö at the HfM Karlsruhe, she is currently continuing her studies with Thomas
Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Peter Bruns, Wen-Sinn Yang, Gustav
Rivinius, Kian Soltani and Frans Helmerson are a great enrichment for her artistic development.
Since 2022, Antonia has also been a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy
Liechtenstein and is supported by scholarships for young outstanding talents from the Geert and
Lore Blanken Schlemper Foundation and Rahn Kulturfonds.
Antonia plays a cello made by the Italian violin maker Giuseppe Sgarbi, Rome 1885.

Further information: https://antoniastraka.com