Sara Rilling

Sara Maria Rilling was born into a musical family in Stuttgart: daughter of Helmuth Rilling, sister of Rahel Rilling. Her musical education began on the piano and continued on the viola with Friedrich Rüstig and Enrique Santiago at the University in Stuttgart. She studied in Salzburg at the Mozarteum with Jürgen Geise and later in Berlin with Erich Krüger and Stefan Fehlandt and completed her diploma in Weimar studying under Erich Krüger. Additional musical impulses came through masterclasses with Hariolf Schlichtig, Jürgen Kussmaul, Paul Coletti and Thomas Kakuska. Sara is a member of the Bachcollegium Stuttgart, plays regularly in the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, played with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Sara is a passionate chamber musician and performed with Shai Wosner, Jeffrey Kahane, Jörg Widmann, Amichai Grosz and Isabel Charisius among others. As a soloist she played with the Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra Haydn Di Bolzano E Trento, The Philharmonic Orchestra Of Medellin (Kolombia), the TCU Symphony Orchestra (Texas), the Orquesta Sinfonica de Merida Orquesta Merida De Secundino Pech (Venezuela) and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela in Caracas. Sara is a musical embassador. Since more then 10 years she works with much success giving lessons to children from the slums in Venezuela and giving them another perspektive of life through music. She gave masterclasses for Viola in Chile, Venezuela, Colombia and Africa and teaches in Germany. She founded the international chamber music academy Hohenstaufen, with students from the whole world, which takes place every year in Hohenstaufen near Stuttgart. She lives as an freelancing artist in Berlin.