Johanna Pichlmair
1st Violin

Johanna Pichlmair completed her first year of study at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under Igor Ozim. In 2009, she moved to Berlin, where she first studied at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” under Antje Weithaas and Feng Ning, and later at the University of the Arts under Nora Chastain. From 2014 to 2016, she was a scholarship holder of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Karajan Academy. She also attended master classes held by Pinchas Zukerman, Lewis Kaplan and Eberhard Feltz, among others.

The violinist gained her first orchestral experience in various chamber ensembles as a teenager. In the course of time, she also won over 20 prizes as a soloist at national and international competitions. In 2017, she won her first position with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Since March 2020, she has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s first violin section.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Münchener Rundfunkorchester, the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Grazer Philharmoniker and the Pforzheimer Kammerochester. She has also performed as a chamber musician at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Heidelberg Spring Music Festival. In her spare time she loves Latin and ballroom dancing, and Pilates.