Christoph Prendl

Christoph Prendl began his musical training as a boy soprano with the St. Florianer Sängerknaben in Austria. Later he studied harpsichord with Brett Leighton and Viola da Gamba with Claire Pottinger at the Bruckner-Universität Linz and continued to study the Viola da Gamba and early string instruments with Paolo Pandolfo and Randall Cook at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, where he completed his Master of Arts in 2011. In the same year he was awarded a special prize at the Telemann-competition in Magdeburg (Germany) for the best improvised ornamentation. In 2012 he completed a masters degree in music theory with Johannes Menke and Felix Diergarten in Basel. On the Viola da gamba, the harpsichord and as a choir conductor, he gave concerts at many important festivals and concert halls, e.g. at the „Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik“, at the "Festival Oude Muziek" in Utrecht, at the „Telemann-Festtage Magdeburg" and at the Musikverein Wien. Beside his artistic activities he published several articles and a monography on the history of music theory and holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Würzburg. He is professor of Early Music Theory at the University for the Arts Bremen, Germany.