Muriel Razavi , an American-Iranian violist, is a professor at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Trossingen University of Music. She founded the Leipzig Soundseed Festival, which focuses on female composers from the MENA region. As a soloist and chamber musician, she performs internationally, including with Mutter’s Virtuosi, and regularly commissions new works. Her artistic research on re-Orientalism in Iranian female composers (Iranian Female Composers Association) at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre is supervised by Daniel Barenboim. Razavi has received numerous awards, including the Theodor Körner Prize (2024), and has won several international competitions. She studied with Tabea Zimmermann, Nils Mönkemeyer, and Wilfried Strehle and holds a Master’s degree in Religion and Culture (Humboldt University of Berlin) and a BA in Iranian Studies (Free University of Berlin).
The Kuss Quartet and violist Muriel Razavi embark on a three-volume traversal of the six Mozart String Quintets.
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