Isabelle-Fleur Reber-Kunert

Isabelle-Fleur Reber-Kunert was born into a German-Hungarian family of musicians in Heidelberg in 1986. She received her first viola lessons from her mother. Isabelle-Fleur Reber-Kunert has performed repeatedly with various members of the Berlin Philharmonic, for example as part of Der Philharmonische Salon: Götz Teutsch, at the Zermatt Festival in Switzerland with the Scharoun Ensemble or at the Festival Sv. Marka in Croatia and the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg under the baton of Valery Gergiev. She studied with Wilfried Strehle, the Berlin Philharmonic’s former principal violist, at the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating with distinction in 2012. Isabelle-Fleur Reber-Kunert won several first prizes at the competition “Jugend musiziert”, including the special prize of the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation; she was awarded the prize of the Mozarteum Salzburg Summer Academy and won a scholarship from the German Richard Wagner Association. She was also a fellow of the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin and participated in the orchestra academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. She participated in several master courses with the renowned violinist, violist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman, which influenced her musical development profoundly.