Eva Dorothea Schödl (née Brockhaus), born in Munich in 2003, discovered the double bass at the age of nine and, from 2018, received lessons from Prof. Song Choi (Pre-College of the Mozarteum University Salzburg). After graduating from high school in 2020, she began her studies with Prof. Heinrich Braun at the University of Music and Theatre Munich (HMTM). In 2023/24, she studied with Prof. Franco Petracchi as part of the Artist Program at the Stauffer Academy for Strings in Cremona (Italy) and with Prof. Wies de Boevé (Switzerland) as part of SEMP. She received further valuable inspiration from Prof. Christine Hoock, Prof. Dorin Marc, Prof. Werner Fleischmann, and Matthias Gerstner. Since 2022, she has also been a member of the Institute for Historical Performance at the HMTM with violone. In the winter of 2025, she successfully completed her bachelor’s degree in double bass and continued her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts with Prof. Wies de Boevé, before moving in 2026 to the class of Prof. Philipp Stubenrauch at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (HMDK Stuttgart).
The young musician gained valuable experience as a member of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the vbw Festival Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, among others. She also performs in ensembles such as the Matrix Orchestra Vienna, the Munich Chamber Opera, and the Munich Bach Orchestra. Since June 2026, she plays as an academist with the Munich Philharmonic.
Eva Schödl is a prize winner of the 9th International Bottesini Competition (2024), the Bruno Frey Music Prize 2024, the Althofen Master Classes (2023), and the German national competition “Jugend musiziert” (2019) and has been supported by the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”, the Althofen Master Classes, the PROMOS Scholarship, and the Bruno Frey Foundation. She is a scholarship holder of the YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now Munich association and the Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation.
As of June 2026. This biography may only be modified or shortened with the consent of Eva Schödl.