Violinist Teresa Allgaier shifts her focus between classical contemporary music and experimental pop music. She collaborates with emerging composers and bands, focuses on contemporary chamber music in Kontai Ensemble, improvises with sound and electronics and writes music for her chamber pop duo Fallwander.
Her long-standing collaboration with composer Sophia Jani results in the album release of the violin solo cycle ‚Six Pieces for Solo Violin‘ via Squama Recordings in May 2024.
As a soloist Teresa has performed with various orchestras, interpreting violin concertos by Bach, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Khachaturian, Pärt and Riley. As a composer, stage musician, chamber musician and band musician, she has worked on theater and concert productions at venues such as the Barbican Theatre London, Wigmore Hall London, Vienna Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, State Opera Munich, Kammerspiele Munich, Philharmonie Munich, Schauspiel Leipzig or Volksbühne Berlin. Teresa plays in the live ensembles of Ralph Heidel and Carlos Cipa as well as with the Northern German chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor. She took part in the International Ensemble Modern Academy at the Klangspuren Festival in Austria and has performed several times at the Fusion Festival, X-Jazz Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, Überjazz Festival amongst many others.
In her project Fallwander, Teresa creates electronic-influenced pop music together with composer and producer Theresa Zaremba. The duo not only performs on festival and club stages, but also collaborates with artists from the fields of dance, theatre, film, visual and interactive art. In 2019 and 2023, Fallwander were artists in residence at 'The Arctic Hideaway' in Norway. They wrote the music for the award-winning dance theatre 'Loewenherz', which will run at the Kammerspiele Munich in summer 2024.
Furthermore, Teresa is one the co-founders of 'Feet Become Ears', a contemporary chamber music series that aims to contribute more minimal-influenced styles to the spectrum of new music in Germany.
She studied classical violin at the University of Music and Drama Munich with Prof. Ingolf Turban and Prof. Sonja Korkeala and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London with Prof. Alexander Janiczek, followed by a year of studies on the International Cooperation Master New Music programme in Bern/Dresden/Salzburg.
She is currently based between Leipzig and Munich.