Patricia Hood-Koll

Patricia Hood-Koll was born in 1988 in Vienna and at the age of three received her first violin lessons from her father Heinrich Koll, a former principal viola in the Vienna Philharmonic. From the age of five she continued her training at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Eugenia Polatschek and Florian Zwiauer. From 2011 to 2013 she undertook a master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Anke Dill. She also participated in masterclasses with Lewis Kaplan at the Juilliard School.

She won several first prizes and special prizes at prima la musica and the international violin competition ‘Città di Barletta’.

In 2007 she began working as a substitute musician in the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, and from 2008 she began working in the same capacity with the Vienna Philharmonic. She has been a member of the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera since 2012, and since 2015 has been a member of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 2016 she became section leader of the second violins.

She performs regularly in a variety of chamber music ensembles, including the Koll Trio together with her father and her sister Alexandra. The trio’s numerous engagements include concerts at the Vienna Musikverein, the Palais Eschenbach and the ORF RadioKulturhaus, in Klagenfurt, the USA and Japan, and in an interval film at the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert.

Other important appearances include solo performances in 2011 at the Varna Summer International Music Festival in Bulgaria and at ‘Licht ins Dunkel’ at Schloss Kittsee, a chamber music recital at La Scala, Milan, where she played the Salzburg Mozarteum’s ‘Mozart Violin’, a performance at the Vienna Festival that was also recorded for CD, and a quartet recording for a film about Mozart (broadcast by Arte and ORF). She also performs in the Philharmonische Kammermusik (Philharmonic Chamber Music) series at the Vienna State Opera.