Uta Wylezol

Uta Wylezol was born in Sondershausen and received her first violin lessons at the age of three. From 1998 to 2007, she attended the Schloss Belvedere special grammar school for music in Weimar, where she switched to the viola in 2003 and was accepted into the class of professors Erich W. Krüger and Ditte P. Leser. In 2007, she won first prize in the ‘Jugend musiziert’ competition. After graduating from high school, she continued her viola studies at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar.

She gained orchestral experience in the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the Stuttgart Festival Ensemble, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Weimar, where she initially played as a substitute and later on a temporary contract.

Uta Wylezol has been a permanent member of the Staatskapelle Dresden since 2011.