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Genre(s): Classical MusicFrom: Vienna, Austria
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BIOGRAPHY
The Austrian cellist Antonia Straka comes from a Viennese family of musicians and is considered one of the most promising artists of her generation. In the 2025/26 season, Antonia was a participant of IMS and the OCM Prussia Cove, the Ozawa Academy and the Schiermonnikoog Festival. She regularly appears at major festivals in Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. In spring 2026, she followed an invitation to the festival Chamber Music Connects the World of the Kronberg Academy. Her appearances as a soloist include collaborations with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, the Next Generation Orchestra, the Iberacademy Orchestra Colombia, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest. Antonia is a multiple first-prize winner at national and international competitions, including being a laureate of Musica Juventutis 2020 and winner of the International ESTA Concerto Competition 2022. She participated in the ARD International Music Competition in 2024 and was a semifinalist at the International Cello Competition in Budapest in 2025. As Featured Artist of Jeunesse Österreich during the 2023/24 concert season, she performed the Cello Concerto by Antonín Dvořák at the season opening in the sold-out Golden Hall of the Musikverein. The performance was documented in a live broadcast on ORF Ö1.
In 2021, she made her debut as a soloist in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein and in the Schubert Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Antonia Straka’s extensive chamber music activities have led to collaborations with renowned artists such as Eszter Haffner, Christian Altenburger, Réka Szilvay, Patrick Demenga, Peijun Xu, Veit Hertenstein, Christoph Zimper, Adela Liculescu, Anton Gerzenberg, Thomas Riebl, Kate Lindsey and Gary Hoffman. She performs on a cello by Gennaro Gagliano (Naples, 1758), “ex Duke of Hamilton”, on loan from the Austrian National Bank.