(first violin)

 

Born in Vienna, Regine Koch received her first violin lessons when she was still at elementary school. Her teacher was Hertha Binder at the music school of Regine’s home district Hernals. Five years later she passed the entrance examination at the Academy of Music in Vienna ( recently renamed University of Music and Performing Arts), where she had lessons with Prof.Josef Sivo. She then decided to enrol for music pedagogy at the Music University of Graz, where she completed her studies with a master’s degree.. At the same time she studied German and Romance languages and literature at the University of Vienna.

Regine Koch gained her initial experience as an orchestral musician in the Symphony Orchestra of the ORF and was soon accepted as a section leader in the orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper, to which she belonged as a permanent member. Besides, she performed in concerts at home and abroad and, for recordings, played in several orchestras such as the Viennese Johann Strauss Orchestra, the First Viennese Women’s Chamber Orchestra, the 20th Century Ensemble,the Orchestra of the Wiener Kammeroper, the Viennese Opera Ball Orchestra and the ARGE RSO-Orchestra. In addition, she was a founding member of the former Wiener Sinfonietta under the baton of Kurt Rapf.

Throughout her musical career as a violinist, chamber music in various formations has always been her main interest. Already during her student days she was a member of the Jeunesse Chamber Orchestra. Together with the Chamber Music Ensemble of the Wiener Volksoper she performed musical rarities in Austra, Italy and Slowakia. Together with the pianist Igo Koch she founded the „Belvedere Trio“, which released a CD with piano trios by F.Mendelssohn, and gave concerts in Austria and Japan.

Besides, the pedagogical aspect has always been of great concern for her. In individual or group lessons she tried to arouse young people’s interest in, and  joy of, making music. For two decades her aim as a teacher at the BORG in Hegelgasse 12,1010 Vienna, was to make her pupils understand and appreciate music and thus support them in their personality formation and their social and moral development.

In 2010, Regine Koch participated as concertmaster in a concert performance of the operetta „ Der Zigeunerbaron“ organized by the Johann Strauss Society of Vienna. It was above all her authentic interpretation of Viennese music, which she had acquired through decades of experience under the musical directions of Franz Bauer-Theussl or Rudolf Bibl, masters of this genre, that qualified her for the position of concertmaster in the Concert Schrammel Quartet of the Johann Strauss Society of Vienna.

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