Gunde Jäch-Micko, violin

Gunde Jäch-Micko was born in Vienna and grew up with six siblings on the outskirts of Vienna. She showed an early interest in music and learned the violin, folk harp and piano. Especially folk music was one of your first engagements.

From 1978 to 1991 she studied violin at the University of Music in Vienna with Michael Frischenschlager, Ernst Kovacic and Gerhard Schulz. Her main area of interest was and is chamber music, small ensembles up to the chamber orchestra. She dealt with baroque violin and baroque performance practice for several years. She has received several prizes in the national competition “Jugend musiziert” and in international violin competitions.

Gunde Jäch-Micko has performed as a soloist as well as with chamber music ensembles both within Austria and internationally and has recorded variously for the radio and on CD throughout the last 25 years.

She became a member of Klangforum Wien in 1990.