Alexandra Kahrer

lexandra Kahrer is an Austrian cellist who has won numerous prizes at international music competitions. Most recently, in May 2025, she won 3rd Prize at the renowned Prague Spring International Music Competition as well as the Audience Prize and the Czech Music Fund Award for the best interpretation of the contemporary piece composed for the competition. In 2024, she won 1st Prize at the International Grunewald Music Competition Berlin under the patronage of David Geringas. She has also been a prizewinner at the Gustav Mahler Prize Cello Competition in the Czech Republic, the Leoš Janáček Competition in Brno, the David Popper Cello Competition in Hungary and the International Cello Competition Liezen in Austria. She captivates the audience with her profound emotional depth, personal expressiveness, stylistic authenticity, tonal richness and virtuosity.

Her performances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her to major concert halls such as the Musikverein Vienna, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Weimarhalle, the Brno Philharmonic, the Casals Forum Kronberg and the Rudolfinum Prague.

She has been a guest at renowned festivals and concert series including the Allegro Vivo Festival, Kronberg Festival, AlpenKlassik Festival, Odeonskonzerte Munich, Westfalen Classics Festival, Musiktage Starnberg & Seefeld, Super Cello Festival Beijing, Musikforum Trenta of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Beethoven Frühling Festival, among others.

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