biography

Raphael Nussbaumer was born in Altendorf (Switzerland) in 2006. He started playing the violin at the age of 4. At the age of 6 he was accepted into the violin class of Philip A. Draganov.

He was able to win 1st prize with distinction in each of several National Violin Competitions.He was also able to collect 2nd prize in each of the International Violin Competition "Andrea Postacchini" (Fermo,2018) and the "Louis Spohr" (Weimar,2019) Competition.He was in the semi-finals of the Menuhin Competition. He participated in the 10th Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition in Vienna and won the 4th prize as the youngest finalist. In 2023 he won the 2nd prize at the Tibor Varga International Competition in Sion.

His concert activities have already let him play with several orchestras, such as the

Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonie-Orchester-Biel, Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra Vienna, Camerata Zurich, Youth Symphony Orchestra Zurich and some more. He has performed at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in Germany, Austria, Italy and South Korea.