Johanna Kargl was born in Styria in 1983 and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. Being part of a musician family made a decisive contribution to her early intensive preoccupation with music. In addition to studying psychology at the Karl-Franzens University Graz, Johanna Kargl completed the study of historical violin instruments at Dario Luisi at the Department of Old Music at the Johann-Joseph-Fux Conservatory in Graz because of her special passion for ‘early music’ Various courses and workshops.
In addition to her active work as a psychologist, Johanna Kargl with her baroque violin is a long-time member of the St. Pölten cathedral music and is involved in numerous ensemble projects at home and abroad, such as Solament Naturali Bratislava (conductor: Milos Valent), Dolce Risonanza (Head: Florian Wieninger), … Since its foundation, she has been a fixed ensemble member of the Austrian Baroque Orchestra Neue Hofkapelle Graz (Head: Lucia Froihofer and Michael Hell), with whom she has already worked with artists such as Arianna Savall, Emma Kirkby and Gerlinde Sämann.
As a chamber and orchestral musician, she already took the Festival Musica Sacra (St. Pölten), Festival Echi Lontani (Cagliari, Italy), Baroque Festival St. Pölten, Summer Academy Days of Early Music (Pöllau), Kulturring Kaufbeuren (D) and Styriarte (Graz ), etc. on. Johanna Kargl was also involved in various CD productions in Germany, Slovenia and Austria with Ars Antiqua Austria (Head: Gunar Letzbor), Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna (Head: Manfred Huss) and the new Hofkapelle Graz.