Phoebe Violet

Phoebe Violet, born in San José / Costa Rica in 1988 to Costa Rican mother and British father, began playing the violin at the age of 3. She was admitted in the Children's Orchestra of Costa Rica at the age of 6, and became part of the Chamber Orchestra at the age of 9. This early involvement in an orchestra had an immense effect on the natural approach that Phoebe Violet has in composing. She began writing songs at the age of 13 when learning to play the guitar.  

Phoebe Violet moved to Linz / Austria with her family at the age of 14 where she continued her violin studies in the Musikschule der Stadt Linz. She won first prize for the competition Prima La Musica for Upper Austria at the age of 17, followed by several solo concerts in austrian music halls. At the age of 18, she wrote her first piece, a Cadenza to W.A. Mozart's A-Major violin concert that she performed in Bruckner Haus Linz. making this event an awakening to the vast possibilities that the world of composition brings within.  

She moved to Vienna / Austria at the age of 18 where she began working as a freelance musician, mainly classical. At 21 she began performing her own songs in different formations, testing genres such as electronic, metal and free jazz. Whilst searching for precision and a general sound aesthetic, she found comfort and ease in the world of composing for string instruments. 

With 23 she moved to San Francisco / USA where she explored the world of composition in a more profound way. After an intense autodidactic learning experience of all-in-all 8 months, she decided to return to Vienna where she currently resides. 

STUDIES: 

Violin lessons (age 3 - 19) with Mercedes Moreno, Guido Calvo, Wolfhart Schuster, Marcus Wall
Ballet (age 4 - 14), Modern Dance (age 8 - 14)
Choir (age 4 - 9)
Piano lessons (age 6 - 9)
Painting lessons (age 7 - 18)
Guitar lessons (age 13 - 14)
Singing lessons since 2019 with Oliver Wejwar. 

Architecture:  
2006 - 2007 University of Applied Arts, Vienna; class Zaha Hadid
2007 - 2011 Vienna University of Technology

Sociology 
2014 - 2016 University of Vienna

Agata Sikorska

She studied from 1996 till 2011 in the Music University in Poznań / Poland with Bartosz Bryla and in the University of the Arts in Berlin / Germany with Ilan Gronich. Further studies followed from 2001 till 2004 with Rainer Küchl in the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna / Austria.

 In addition to various prizes and awards, she won fourth place in the violin competition in Elblag in 1993. She was awarded second place in 1998 for the Internationl Chambermusic competition in Lódz and third place in Chambermusic competition in Zakopane.

Sikorska was member of the Österreichischen Jugendorchesters in Erl in 1995. During her studies she was awarded the Ferenc-Fricsay scholarship in the Deutschen Symphonie Orchester Berlin (1999) and had an internship in the Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin (2001).
In 2001 she became a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and substituted in the State Opera of Wroclaw / Poland. In 2002 she substituted in the Wiener Staatsoper and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and was granted a temporary contract at the Radio Symphonic Orchestra of Vienna. 

Since 2004, Sikorska is a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Zsófia Günther-Mészáros

Zsófia Günther-Mészáros was born in Szeged / Hungary. She received her first cello lesson at the age of 7 with Gábor Gárdián in the music school in Szeged.  

In 2005 she became student of the prestigious music academy Zoltán Kodály in Kecskemét / Hungary and was taught by Márta Agócs throughout her high-school education. 

Günther-Mészáros has won a number of international ccompetitions such as: 
Cello Competition Marcosig – Gorizia / Italy in 2005: 2nd prize
Antonio Janigro Cello Competition – Porec / Croatia in 2006: 1st prize 
János Starker Cello Competition – Hungary in 2006 & 2008: 1st prize
Interntional Cello Competition – Liezen / Austria in 2010: 2nd prize 

In 2012 she was granted a scholarship in the Angelika Prokopp Akademie der Wiener Philharmoniker in Salzburg / Austria and in the Internationalen Musikforums Trenta. Along with piano player Haruka Yano and flute player Ting-Wei Chen, she established a trio under the name Trio Prisma, making their debut in the well-known Austrian music hall Musikverein. In 2015 the trio won the preliminary audition of the European Chamber Music Academy. 

Since 2010, Günther-Mészáros substitutes in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2012 she was granted a temporary contract in the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, in 2012 in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Staatsoper from 2013 till 2015. 

Taught by Professor Robert Nagy, Günther-Mészáros completed her university studies with honors in 2018 in the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna / Austria.

Since 2016, Günther-Mészáros is a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.