Antonia Rankersberger is an Austrian violinist and chamber musician who regularly appears on the major stages of the classical music elite, including Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Since 2018, Antonia has been the second violinist of the Simply Quartet, which has established itself as one of the leading string quartets of the new generation. The quartet has won numerous first prizes at prestigious competitions, such as the International Carl Nielsen Competition 2019 in Copenhagen and Quatuors à Bordeaux 2019. In addition, it was selected for the “Rising Stars” program of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). From the 2025/26 season onwards,
the quartet will be featured in its own concert series at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Alongside her concert career, Antonia Rankersberger is deeply committed to music education. She has given masterclasses at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Xi’an Conservatory of Music, and the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá, among others. In the 2024/25 season, the quartet held a guest professorship at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in Hangzhou.

In addition, Antonia enjoys creating solo programs, including performances at the Carinthischer Sommer, the Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag, and various interdisciplinary projects such as The Kreutzer Sonata at the Schauspielhaus Wien and Otto Brusatti’s multimedia work Beethoven und Karl, in collaboration with the Meta Dance Academy in South Korea.

Antonia began her musical training at the age of five. In 2010, she was admitted to the highly gifted program at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She completed her violin performance studies with Gerhard Schulz and Ulf Wallin, before finishing her education with chamber music studies under Johannes Meissl (MDW) in 2024 and quartet studies with Günter Pichler at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. In addition to her formal studies, she received important artistic impulses through masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Ivry Gitlis, and Peter Kovats.

Her early achievements include second prize at the International Szymon Goldberg Competition in 2015 and winning the selection audition for Musica Juventutis, which led to her solo debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2018.

Antonia Rankersberger plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (“ex Beare – ex Tetzlaff,” Turin, 1776), generously loaned to her by the Austrian National Bank.