
A graduate of the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK), Hanns Eisler Berlin and HfM München, Slovenian-German violinist and violist Annika Starc is sought after as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader in Switzerland, Germany and abroad.
Her musical work encompasses the various styles of classical music, while also exploring improvisation, jazz and experimental new music.
Artists has worked with include Viktoria Mullova, Ilya Gringolts, Mischa Maisky, Sir Simon Rattle, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Daniel Müller-Schott, Shani Diluka, Gregor Sigl, Aleksey Igudesman and Roby Lakatos and many more.
Annika just played as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Karlovy Vary (CZ), where she performed the rarely played 3rd violin concerto by Max Bruch. As a chamber musician she is a regular guest at festivals as PushPlay!, Free Flow Festival, Stauffer Summer Festival, Chigiana Summer Festival, mainly across Central Europe.
Annika Starc, born 1996, received her bachelor musical education with the professors professors Kolja Blacher and Ning Feng at the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin. Afterwards she moved to Zurich zu study Master Performance and Master Specialist Soloist with Ilya Gringolts at the University of Arts in Zürich, where she just finished her studies with distinction in 2024.
Additionaly to that she takes part in the Master-Artistic-Diploma program with Salvatore Accardo at the Stauffer-Academy in Cremona aswell as she got selected to the Excellence class of Shani-Diluka and at the Académie Rainier III in Monaco with an intense focus on chamber music.
From 2009 till 2014 she took part in the German national competition „Jugend Musiziert“ and won as a Soloist as well as in diverse chamber music formations eight 1st prizes. In April 2021 she won the Duttweiler-Hug-competition of the ZHdK with her interpretation of the violin concerto in a-major No.5 of W.A. Mozart. She was a Finalist at the International Competition „Szymon Goldberg“ 2019 and got the special prize for the “best interpretation of a piece from classical periode”. At the “1st international competition of the Bayerischen Landesmusikakademie Hammelburg 2019“ she achived a 3rd prize.
She plays a violin by L. Guadagnini (1743), which is provided to her by the German foundation “Landessammlung Baden-Württemberg”.