

Laura-Maria Waldauf
Laura-Maria Waldauf, born 1998 in Innsbruck, received her first violin lessons at the age of 5 with Po Ching Ho at the Städtische Musikschule (municipal music school) in Innsbruck. As of 2009 she was taught by Ursula Wykypiel at the music school Hall in Tyrol on both the baroque- and the modern violin.
In 2013 she relocated her professional training to the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she studied for four years in the Pre College with Univ. Prof. Esther Hoppe. Since October 2017 she has been a concert student with Univ. Prof. Lily Francis and since 2019 with Priv.-Doz. Annelie Gahl. The studies at the University Mozarteum furthermore permitted an Erasmus semester with Réka Szilvay at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Concert projects with Gottfried von der Goltz, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Daniel Sepec, Howard Arman and Johannes Pramsohler as part of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music as well as master classes with Michi Gaigg, Réka Szilvay and Katalin Kokas were formative. Highlights were concert tours to Rome, Assisi, Florence, Siena, Venice, Bolzano, Merano and Vienna as well as solo performances with the Chamber Orchestra InnStrumenti, the Bella Musica Orchestra Mozarteum Salzburg and the municipal orchestra of the city of Schwaz.
Numerous 1st prizes at the Austrian music competition Prima la Musica at federal-state and national levels confirm her educational path so far. In 2017 and 2018 she received special prizes at federal-state level with the ensembles "Waldauf Sisters" and "Waldauf³" with a concert invitation to Bratislava and a concert project with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since her childhood she has also been involved with traditional alpine folk music. Together with her sister, her cousin and her parents, she makes music in the Familienmusik Waldauf and Waldauf³. She is also a member of Windstreich Musikanten, a folk music ensemble consisting of students from the University Mozarteum Salzburg and the MUK - Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (music and art private university of the city of Vienna).