Raphaela was born in Ried, Austria. After completing her studies at the Wiener Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, cum laude, she continued studying recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Walter van Hauwe. As a soloist and member of various ensembles Raphaela performed in The Purcell Room in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Cawaguchiko Hall in Tokyo, the Erasmushuis in Jakarta, at the Varna Summer Festival in Bulgaria, in the Izmir Concerthall in Turkey, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.Next to Ziggurat she is a member of the Renaissance ensemble Mezza Luna, the Turkish/Dutch Anatolia Ensemble and Ensemble Thuraia. She was awarded prizes at the International Recorder Symposium Calw in Germany, the Early music Festival in Belgium and at the International Gaudeamus Competition in the Netherlands. In 2002 Raphaela was teaching at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since 2002 Raphalea has been studying duduk with Gevorg Dabaghian in Yerevan, Armenia.
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