Arabella Bozic is a multi-faceted musician currently based in Paris. She is equally at home performing with orchestras in renowned concert halls, playing chamber music in more intimate venues and working in recording studios as both an instrumentalist and producer in a range of genres.
Arabella Bozic was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and holds Australian, Croatian and Hungarian citizenship. She has spent the last decade living in Europe and has worked in over twenty distinguished orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic/Vienna State Opera, Camerata Salzburg, Bavarian State Opera, Munich Philharmonic, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra. She has played as guest principal with orchestras including the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Arabella regularly plays in chamber music concerts and has participated in series such as Play On Music and the International Society for Contemporary Music “World Music Days.” She has appeared in the Salzburg (Austria), Aldeburgh (UK), Tsinandali (Georgia) and Verbier (Switzerland) Festivals. She was also awarded the Musica Viva Australia Chamber Music Prize. As a soloist she has performed with orchestras including Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock and appeared on “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” Radio.
Arabella Bozic began her classical training at the age of three, when she began Suzuki Method violin lessons with John Speer in Sydney. She later learnt viola and piano and completed her university degrees majoring in viola performance. She has a Bachelor of Music Performance (Honors Class 1) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying with Roger Benedict and a Master of Arts degree from the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, studying with Thomas Riebl. During her studies she also participated in masterclasses including the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove (UK) and the Angelika Prokopp Sommerakademie der Wiener Philharoniker (Salzburg). Her primary musical influences include Gábor Tackács-Nagy and Lars Vogt. Arabella teaches viola and violin students both privately and through organizations such as “Equal Music” by Ilumina Music directed by Jennifer Stumm.
Arabella completed studies in Music Production at Berklee Online in 2022 and is an Avid certified user of ProTools. She collaborates with artists as an engineer, producer and string arranger. This allows her to explore the different genres she is also passionate about including hip hop, jazz and neo-soul. Her main influences include musicians of the Soulquarians and Eminem. She performed with Eminem on his European tour in 2018.
After living in Salzburg, Berlin, Munich, London, Helsinki and Vienna, Arabella now resides in Paris and has a tenured position in Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.
Photography by Mehdi Hassine