Marika Cecilia Riedl

Curriculum Vitae

Marika Cecilia Riedl, Harp

Marika Cecilia Riedl received her first harp lessons at the age of 6 with Ms. Tabitha Nicolas. From 2010 she studied as a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Ms. Cristina Bianchi and in 2014 she transferred to the Zurich University of the Arts to Ms. Sarah O'Brien. There she completed the Master of Pedagogy and the Master of Specialized Soloist. An exchange semester led her to Lausanne to Ms. Letizia Belmondo. Marika Cecilia Riedl received further guidance in masterclasses with Luisa Prandina, Prof. Isabelle Moretti, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Emmanuel Ceysson and Nicolas Tulliez.

She has been awarded numerous national and international prizes. In 2018 and 2020, she won study grants from the Migros-Kulturprozent and acceptance into their concert agency. In July 2019, she became a prize winner at the world's most prestigious harp competition, the USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington (Indiana) and in 2017 she won the Concours International Félix Godefroid in Tournai (Belgium). Her awards include also special prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich (2016) and at the Suoni d'Arpa Competition (Italy, 2017), as well as Second Prize at the Franz Josef Reinl International Competition as the youngest participant in 2013.

In addition, she convinced several foundations with her playing. These include the Lyceum Club Zurich, the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation Lucerne, the Lyra Foundation, the Zangger-Weber Foundation and the Richard Wagner Association Munich. The Kiwanis Club Zurich-Enge took on a sponsorship of several years and she was presented with the Cultural Sponsorship Award of the Sudeten Deutschen Landsmannschaft.

As a soloist with and without an orchestra, Marika Cecilia Riedl maintains an active concert schedule. She has played solo concerts with the Georgischen Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, the Zürcher Symphonikern, the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker, the Medizinerorchester Bern and the Musik-Collegium Schaffhausen.

Marika Cecilia Riedl is also a sought-after orchestral harpist. She plays as a substitute in the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Philharmonia Zürich (Opernhaus Zürich), the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. In 2020/2021 she held an internship with the Berner Symphonieorchester and won the audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

She currently resides in Switzerland.