Following the intense desire to make chamber music in orchestras and a wide variety of ensemble formations, musical training on the recorder and piano, ultimately led Beatrice Holzer-Graf to the cello.

She received her training at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg and the universities of music in Rostock and Stuttgart.

Beatrice became intensively involved with the performance practice of early music from a very early age and has been working with the baroque cello ever since. Continuo playing is a very important part of her professional activity.

As part of various ensembles, she acted as a continuo cellist in operas such as C.W. Gluck's “Il parnaso confuso” and “L'Etearco”, W.A. Mozart's “Le nozze di Figaro”, Idomeneo”, “The Magic Flute”, “Abduction from the Seraglio” and “Cosí fan tutte”, in several cantatas by J.S. Bach on sons and contemporaries and oratorios

She is co-founder of the Early Music Ensemble"Quattro Cieli", which is based in Vienna and performs the early to high baroque works for continuo and

prescribed singing.

​Her diverse interests lead her again and again on contemporary music and interdisciplinary projects and is further illustrated by the fact that in 2020 she will do this in addition to her cello activities started studying law.

​Beatrice plays a modern violoncello Paolo Vettori from Florence, 2013 and a

Anonymous baroque cello from Vienna, 1805.

https://www.beatriceholzergraf.com/vita