Antonia Rankersberger is an Austrian violinist. Born in 1997, she began to play the violin at the early age of 5. Antonia won the national Austrian music competition „Prima la musica“ multiple times and also was awarded 2nd prize at the International Szymon Goldberg Competition in 2015. She was admitted to the University for music and performing arts Vienna at the age of 11 where she studied with Veronika Schulz and Gerhard Schulz.
Antonia finished her solo-diploma under the tutelage of Ulf Wallin in 2021 as well as her Chamber Music studies with Johannes Meissl in 2024. Besides her studies, she received important input in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Ivry Gitlis, Peter Kovats and Eszter Haffner. Antonia travelled to numerous countries to play concerts, such as Japan, China, India, Germany, Spain, Hungary and the UK. In 2017, she won the competition „Musica Juventutis“, held annually in Vienna and played her solo debut at Wiener Konzerthaus in March 2018.
Various crossover performances reflect her interest in other arts. Starting off with performing at Schauspielhaus Wien, in Tolstoi´s „Kreutzersonate“, she travelled to Korea in 2018 where she performed as a solo violinist alongside actor Bernhard Majcen and dancers from the Meta Dance Project in a multimedia play by Otto Brusatti. Since 2018, Antonia is second violinist of the Simply Quartet. The quartet has already been awarded four first prizes at renowned chamber music competitions: At the International Carl Nielsen Competition in Copenhagen & the “Quatuor á Bordeaux” in 2019, the “Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity” in Graz in 2018 and in 2017 at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. They are regular guests at renowned concert halls such as BOZAR Brussels, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Antonia plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (“ex Beare – ex Tetzlaff”, Turin, 1776), made available to her by the Austrian National Bank.
