Franziska Kober
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Franziska Kober was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1984, and received her first double bass lessons at the early age of nine at the Klagenfurt Conservatory. From 2003 to 2010 she studied with Christina Hoock at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Dan Styffe in Oslo. She gathered her first professional experiences as a member of the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester and the European Union Youth Orchestra. She was a member of the academy of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and played as a substitute with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Franziska Kober participated several times in national and international competitions, for example Bass 2010 and the International Music Competition in Markneukirchen. She has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2010.