<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1993--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> christophkoncz.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Christoph Koncz (born September 3, 1987 in Konstanz) is an Austrian - Hungarian classical musician . He performs internationally as a violin soloist, conductor, chamber musician and principal of the Vienna Philharmonic . At the age of just nine, he received worldwide acclaim for starring as child prodigy Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, which won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Score . </P> <P> Born 1987 in Konstanz into an Austrian - Hungarian family of musicians, Christoph Koncz received his first violin lesson at the age of four and entered the Vienna University of Music only two years later, studying with Eugenia Polatschek . He went on to study violin with Josef Hell, Igor Ozim and Boris Kuschnir at the Music Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Graz as well as conducting with Mark Stringer in Vienna . Master classes with Daniel Barenboim and Daniel Harding further enriched his musical education . In 2008, at the age of twenty, Christoph Koncz was appointed principal second violin of the Vienna Philharmonic . </P>

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