Monika Bruggaier
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Monika Bruggaier joined the violin class of Dieter Vorholz at the Frankfurt Music Academy as a junior student in 1984. After graduating from high school in 1987, she continued her studies there, graduating with distinction in 1991. She subsequently completed postgraduate studies with Gerhard Schulz (Alban Berg Quartet) at the Vienna Music Academy. Various master courses, including in baroque violin, complemented her education. During her studies, she received scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation, “Villa musica” and the Yamaha Foundation in Vienna; in 1993 she received the encouragement award of the Gustav Lenzewski Foundation in Frankfurt. She has been assistant section leader of the first violins at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 1994 and has been teaching at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre since 2004.