Liv Migdal
Melbourne, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Oslo, Shanghai: as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors, the award-winning musician has toured concert stages worldwide. In 2016 she made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie, a year later at the Elbphilharmonie and in 2024 at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 2017, her concert tour to China included acclaimed debuts in Beijing and Xi’an. In addition to invitations from renowned festivals such as Schumann-Fest Bonn, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and a number of other music festivals in Europe, the violinist’s concert calendar in recent years has also included tours to Australia, France, Denmark and Great Britain. One of the highlights in 2025 was her debut with the Jerusalem Symphony.
WDR Funkhauskonzert April 2023 – Liv Migdal, Violine und Schaghajegh Nosrati, Klavier. Robert Schumann: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr.1 a-Moll – 2. Allegretto + 3. Lebhaft
In 2023/2024, Liv Migdal has been “Artist in Residence“ at the Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern and at the Kurt Weill Festival Dessau. She appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, the Bergisches Symphony Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, the Symphony Orchestra Münster, the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra and the Zug Sinfonietta. The season 2025/2026 will see Liv Migdal’s return to the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau and the Elbphilharmonie and concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra Cottbus, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, among others.
All of Migdal’s CD recordings, featuring works from the Baroque to the present, have received excellent critical reviews and numerous international awards. These include the recordings with pianist Marian Migdal and the Eight Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin which was nominated for the International Classical Music Award (ICMA). 2019 marked the release of the violinist’s fourth CD album, Refuge, featuring solo sonatas by Bach, Ben-Haim and Bartók, which was highly acclaimed by international critics and nominated in three categories for the OPUS KLASSIK 2020: Solo Recording of the Year, Young Artist of the Year and Instrumentalist of the Year.
In 2017, the violinist initiated the project : “Giving ostracized composers a voice” – funded by the Ministry of Culture. For many years Liv Migdal has been committed to the musical work of Paul Ben-Haim in her international performances. In 2022, she played the German premiere of Ben-Haim’s Poem for Violin and Orchestra „Yizkor“ with the Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern. The recording of the piece with the Weimarer Staatskapelle has been released in January 2025 and was met with great international acclaim. Her latest recording “Beyond Horizons” together with pianist Mario Härig – released in September 2025 – features works by Ethel Smyth, Amanda Maier and Edvard Grieg and was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.
Amanda Maier: 6 Stücke für Violine und Klavier – 1. Allegro vivace + 2. Allegretto con moto
Liv Migdal, who comes from a family of artists – her father an internationally renowned musician and pianist, her mother a writer – began her university studies as an eleven-year-old junior student with Christiane Hutcap at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, where she graduated with a diploma. She continued her artistic education in the master class of Igor Ozim at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, followed by postgraduate studies in early music with Reinhard Goebel. After receiving her Master’s degree with distinction, Liv Migdal was honored in Austria with the Paul Roczek Music Award for outstanding violin playing.
Since her early concert appearances, Liv Migdal has been awarded a number of international music prizes and scholarships, including First Prize International Ruggiero-Ricci Violin Competition Salzburg, International Hindemith Competition Berlin, GWK Music Prize Münster, Fritz Kreisler Competition Vienna, Mozart Society and others.
“Electrifying”… “with expressive power”… “existential playing”… “breathtaking”… “from the ear directly to the soul”… “a full-blooded musician”…
- Photo credits: Matan Goldstein (1, 4), Tanita Karkuth (2, 3)




