Bianca Riesner

Subjects

Complementary subject Baroque cello

Biography

Bianca Riesner, a cellist and gambist from Vorarlberg, studied modern cello at the Konservatorium Feldkirch with Imke Frank and Martin Merker, and at the Zurich University of the Arts in Roel Dieltiens’ class. She then specialized in historical performance practice on the Baroque cello and the viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Jonathan Manson. In 2017–18, she was a fellow of the Monteverdi Apprentice Scheme, through which she received personal coaching from Sir John Eliot Gardiner and regularly performed in concerts with the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

She currently performs with Jordi Savall’s Le Concert des Nations, Concentus Musicus Wien, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and is a member of the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra.
Her international concert career takes her not only to venues throughout Europe but also on tours of the U.S. and South America with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Jordi Savall, and Masaaki Suzuki, as well as to renowned festivals like the Bachfest Leipzig and the Boston Early Music Festival.
In 2024, the CD “Vivaldi – The Four Seasons” was released on the Alia Vox label, on which she appears as a soloist alongside Alfia Bakieva in the double concerto for violin and violoncello “Il Proteo” under the direction of Jordi Savall, as well as a continuo cellist in The Four Seasons.
In the fall of 2024, Bianca Riesner began teaching Baroque cello as a complementary subject at the Stella Musikhochschule in Feldkirch.