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[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ use_custom_gutter=”on” admin_label=”Muriel Razavi” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||40px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1.5em” header_2_font=”Open Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#d86ca6″ header_5_font=”Open Sans|600|||||||” header_5_text_color=”#005c8c” header_5_font_size=”18px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_margin=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” custom_padding=”10px|20px|30px|20px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]Viola<\/b><\/p>\nMuriel Razavi<\/h2>\n
American-Iranian Violist Muriel Razavi (*1992 in Freiburg) is in great demand as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician in the baroque as well as in the contemporary music field. Beginning in the winter semester 2023\/2024 she will start teaching as Professor for Viola at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and at the Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Trossingen.<\/strong><\/em>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.anne-sophie-mutter.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2024_Razavi.jpg” title_text=”2024_Razavi” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”|10px||10px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]She is currently enrolled in a doctoral program (Dr.sc.mus) at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre under the artistic supervision of Daniel Barenboim, where she is conducting research on Re-Orientalism in Music. In the last years Muriel has been working on special concert designs and formats with music by Iranian composers of contemporary classical music from the \u201cIranian Female Composers Association\u201d and commissioned the Viola Concerto \u201cher path through clay and silk\u201d composed by Golfam Khayam. In 2022 she received the \u201caward for an outstanding program with special societal relevance\u201d for her Viola Solo performance \u201cancient eve is once again offering apples\u201d at the Db\u00fc-Competition. In the season 22\/23 she performed her program at the Ultraschallfestival Berlin and the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling Music Festival.<\/p>\n Ms. Razavi is a first prize winner of the international \u201cWashington String Competition\u201d (Washington D.C., 2018) and award winner of the international competitions \u201cMichael Spisak\u201d (Katowice, 2017) and \u201cCitt\u00e0 di Cremona\u201d at the 43. international Viola Conference (Cremona, 2016). She has played at numerous festivals, including the \u201cSeiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland\u201d, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Stavelot Festival in Belgium, the Yeosu Festival in South Korea and the Musicales de Frutillar in Chile, where she also taught a masterclass.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” background_video_mp4=”https:\/\/www.anne-sophie-mutter.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Stipentiaten.mp4″ height=”400px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”|10px||10px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Regular international concert tours, i.a. as Principal – Viola, with the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim as well substitutional work at Germany\u2019s most notable symphony orchestras supplement her widely diversified musical activities. Her chamber music partners include Baiba Skride, Kian Soltani, Tobias Feldmann, Harriet Krijgh and Frank Braley. She is a member of the Ensemble \u201cMutter\u00b4s Virtuosi\u201d under the artistic leadership of Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.<\/p>\n She studied with renowned musicians such as Prof. Tabea Zimmermann, Prof. Nils M\u00f6nkemeyer and Prof. Tatjana Masurenko. In 2019 she completed her Master\u2019s Degree with honors under Professor Wilfried Strehle at the Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste in Berlin.<\/p>\n As a baroque Violist she deepened her knowledge of historical performance practice with the \u201cBalthasar Neumann Ensemble\u201d under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock, the \u201cOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment\u201c in London, the \u201cIl pomo d\u2019oro\u201d Ensemble and the \u201cLe Concert Olympique\u201d Orchestra in Belgium.<\/p>\n Since 2021 has taken on an honorary mentorship in the Mentoring Arts Program at the University for Music and Theater in Leipzig, preparing students for their careers in the field of music.<\/p>\n Ms. Razavi performs on a French viola built for her by the luthier Patrick Robin and an Alemannic baroque viola from Dorothea van der Woerd.<\/p>\n Besides her musical studies she has also completed a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in \u201cThe History and Culture of the Middle East \u2013 Iranian Studies\u201cat the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin as well as a Master\u2019s Degree in \u201cReligion and Culture\u201c at the Humboldt University in Berlin.<\/p>\n