About us

Theresa Aranya Aigner

violin

Studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Roswitha Randacher. Since 2015 member of the ensemble Die Tanzgeiger, 2021 foundation of the Schrammelensemble Divinerinnen. Important artistic impulses from Rudi Pietsch, Roland Neuwirth, Nataša Mirković, etc. Tours have taken her to the USA, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Italy, Lithuania, South Korea, etc. Regular guest appearances with various ensembles such as Wiener Tschuschenkapelle, Musicbanda Franui, Neue Wiener Concertschrammeln, etc. Furthermore, she has an intensive musical collaboration with the Israeli director David Maayan (including Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom; Festival der Regionen, Circus of Knowledge Linz). 2018 Co-founder of the chamber orchestra Klangkollektiv Wien under Rémy Ballot. Co-curator of the Kultursommer Wien since 2023. Through her involvement with authentic music-making practice, she is a regular speaker at seminars throughout the German-speaking world. 

Julia Brunner

violin

Julia Brunner studied concert violin and instrumental pedagogy at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She is a section leader in the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien orchestra, a member of Divinerinnen and teaches at the Regional Music School in Sieghartskirchen, Lower Austria.

Erna Ströbitzer

contraguitar

Erna Ströbitzer plays the three-stringed viola in various traditional (dance) music ensembles between Vienna, Munich and Berlin, such as Tanzhausgeiger, Hermann Fritz Banda, violins in fusion, Stifta Geigenmusi, wombradldüll. Her heart beats for Transylvanian Csárdás. With Divinerinnen, she has discovered for herself Viennese music, the contraguitar and presenting. Her work as a subject librarian in the Archives of the Austrian Folk Song Institute, her studies have sharpened her eye for stories and images, and her love of books and people provide her with endless material.

Marie-Theres Stickler

Viennese button accordion

Born in 1988 in the Schneeberg region of Lower Austria, Marie-Theres Stickler began playing the harmonica self-taught at the age of 5. Her first teachers can be found in the “pub”. From 2006 to 2013 she studied nstrumental pedagogy “Folk Music Instruments”, majoring in diatonic harmonica at the Mozarteum Salzburg, and almost at the same time she joined the ensemble Die Tanzgeiger in Vienna. For several years, Marie has been working with accordions of various kinds: diatonic - the Styrian harmonica, chromatic - the Viennese Schrammel harmonica or a mixture of both - the Chemnitz concertina, “sister” of the bandoneon. So she plays diatonic, chromatic, Styrian, Viennese, now and again theoretically, but much more practically. In addition to the Divinerinnen, she can also be heard with ALMA, Die Tanzgeiger, Stickler-Koschelu, HSH | Hohenberger-Stickler-Havlicek, Diem ||| Stickler, wondrak.lindschi, Wüdaramusi, Hollatrio - in the Dudel-Trio with Tini Kainrath and Maria Stippich, among others - in short: stylistic diversity is her top priority.

Andrea Götsch

clarinet in B-, D- and G-flat

Die aus Südtirol stammende Klarinettistin Andrea Götsch ist Mitglied des Wiener Staatsopernorchesters sowie der Wiener Philharmoniker und derzeit auch im Komitee des Vereins vertreten. Darüber hinaus ist sie mehrfache Preisträgerin verschiedener nationaler und internationaler Wettbewerbe, konzertiert sowohl als Solistin als auch in verschiedensten Kammermusikkonstellationen (neben Divinerinnen u. a. mit Clarinet & Strings Vienna und im Duo mit dem Pianisten Eduard Kutrowatz) und übt zudem einen Lehrauftrag für Orchesterliteratur an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien aus. Außerdem ist sie als Dirigentin und Komponistin tätig.

Stefanie Kropfreiter

viola

Born in Amstetten, the violist completed her master's degree in viola performance at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in 2019 and her master's degree in viola instrumental pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2017. She also completed the Music Physiology certification course at the MDW and a Bachelor's degree in Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. In recent years, Stefanie Kropfreiter has increasingly worked with the conductor and violinist Rémy Ballot in formations such as the Ballot Quartet or Ballot Quintet. In addition to Divinerinnen and her engagement in the orchestra of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, the versatile musician also plays in the ensemble MERVE and with singer-songwriter Sigrid Horn. Sigrid Horn & das Nest was nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards in 2024.

Anna Aigner

cello

Anna Aigner received her first instrumental lessons at the age of five at the Upper Austrian State Music School. Since 2017, she has been studying concert music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Peter Somodari. Parallel to her studies in Vienna, she was enrolled in the postgraduate course at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt with Romain Garioud in 2023/24. Anna is particularly interested in contemporary compositions and took part in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 2020. She plays in numerous chamber music formations, such as the Duo Veris, in the chamber orchestra Klangkollektiv Wien, with Sigrid Horn & das Nest, and had a temporary contract with the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.