Biography

Antonia Straka was born in Vienna in 2002 and has been playing the cello since she was eight. From 2010-2017, she received lessons from her father and at the Music School of the City of Vienna. Since October 2017, Antonia has been studying in the preparatory course at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Mag. Maria Grün, where she also took part in the Young Masters program. She is currently continuing her studies with László Fenyö at the Karlsruhe University of Music. 

Master classes with Josef Luitz, Bruno Weinmeister, Wen-Sinn Yang, Peter Bruns and Gustav Rivinius are a great enrichment for your artistic development. She also receives a scholarship from the International Music Academy Liechtenstein and regularly takes part in the intensive music weeks and activities of the academy. 

Antonia has won multiple state and national prizes at "Prima la musica" and "Allegro Vivo" in 2018 and 2019 and was the prize-winner of "Musica Juventutis" in 2020. In April 2022, she won the “ESTA Concerto Competition”.

In October 2021, she made her debut in the Schubert Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus and was heard as a soloist in Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Next Generation Orchestra of the Wiener Musikgymnasium. She recently made her debut as a soloist with the Slovak Radio Orchestra conducted by Yalchin Adigezalov in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. She has appeared several times as a soloist in Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Next Generation Orchestra of the Wiener Musikgymnasium. In the 2022/23 concert season she made her debut as a soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and interpreted Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations as well as his Pezzo Capriccioso in the Vienna Konzerthaus. In the 2023/24 concert season, Antonia will be presented as a featured artist at Jeunesse Austria and, in addition to numerous concerts, she will also be able to hear Antonin Dvorák's Cello Concerto in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein.

Antonia plays a cello made by the Italian violin maker Giuseppe Sgarbi in 1885.