KAUNZNER, Viktoria Elisabeth

iktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner is a “violinist, composer and director at the highest level” who performs worldwide, says the legendary violinist and intellectual Ivry Gitlis, “with esprit, her compositions are beautiful” (The Strad London), “brillant” remarked once Lord Menuhin about the youngster. She is an enthusiastic mediator between Western and East Asian music and “makes her walk between cultures an issue” (Neue Musikzeitung). She devotes herself just as seriously to the repertoire for violin solo with orchestra, at the same time to the finest chamber music in venues such as Salle Pleyel Paris, Seoul Arts Center, Philharmonics of Berlin, Munich, Teatro de la Scala, LAC Lugano and many others. She has performed in 22 countries on four continents. The Strad published her interpretation of the Beethoven violin concerto as a concert lecture in three languages including her Beatles improvisation on “Let it be” as an encore.

In 2022 she received three important scholarships by the German Federal Cultural Ministry, the Korean Government and an Environmental Foundation in Bavaria – in total 165.000 Euros.
Thanks to this support concert tour “EurAsian Flow” was performed with UKOREVV - “Universal Korean Organic Ensemble - Viktoria & Virtuosi”. This exclusive group of 30 musicians and artists from 15 nations played compositions by Mozart, her own works “Jasmine Rice”, “Silk Road”, “Saiga Antelope” including a documentary film and a commissioned piece by renowned Usbek-Australian composer Elena Kats Chernin. Violeta Dinescu dedicated her violin concerto “Roman Fleuve” to the Stradivari artist, which was also premiered - next to Tango violin concerto by Argentine composer Claudia Montero with Viktoria as soloist and artistic director of the whole evening. In 2023 she will perform “Roman Fleuve” with the Moldavian State Orchestra in Cisinau. Additionally she appears in Australian ABC Classics Duet show together with Tamara Anna Cislowska (piano).