Julia Willeitner – Viol

Born in Passau in 1993, Julia Willeitner received her first cello lessons at the age of 12 from Siglinde Käß. Later, as a young student, she was accepted into the class of Wolfgangs Nüsslein at the HfKm in Regensburg.

After successfully completing her bachelor's degree with Heidi Litschauer and Enrico Bronzi at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, she discovered her passion for early music after a project with the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, which led her to the Bruckner University in Linz. She is currently studying a master's degree in early music / historical performance practice. Julia Willeitner was able to gain valuable experience with the Versailles Academy, the Hanse Ensemble, the Collegium Marianum Prague and other early music ensembles. She received other important impulses from Marco Testori, Vittorio Ghielmi, Hille Perl and Jan Freiheit. In 2014 Julia Willeitner founded the duo CellAr together with the Chilean guitar virtuoso Danilo Cabaluz, with whom they mainly devote themselves to folk music from South America and have already given concerts in Chile, Spain, Brazil, Germany and Austria. In 2015 they released their first CD "La vida breve". In 2020 she founded the "Bergfried Kulturfestival" in an old monastery in Passau, where artists and musicians from all cultures regularly come together and present concerts and exhibitions.