graduated from Mittenwald
violin making school in 1983,
and subsequently worked
for various makers in Cremona/Italy,
and for C.M. Hutchins
in Boston, U.S.A.
From 1985 until 1990
she spent five years
working in Amsterdam
for Andreas Post.
She achieved her Austrian
masters degree in 1991,
and opened her own atelier
in Vienna in 1993.