Richard Cibula

Richard Cibula is a Slovak violinist based in Austria.

He was born in Bratislava and, as an exceptional student, studied violin at the State Conservatory under František Török. He subsequently attended a course for highly gifted students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Anna Gutowska and a preparatory course at the Private University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Dalibor Karvay. He currently continues his studies with Karvay and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky.

Since 2025, he has served as deputy concertmaster (first violin) of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Richard Cibula has performed at music festivals in Slovakia (Bratislava Chamber Music Festival, 2024), Bulgaria (Plovdiv International Chamber Music Festival, 2022), and Austria (Amadeus Festival with ensembles and musicians including Jánoška Ensemble, Andrey Park, Siyi Li, and Isabella Egawa).

He has given solo and chamber performances in Austria (Musikverein, Graz, 2025; Musikverein, Vienna, 2025), Hungary (Budapest Music Center, 2024), and Belgium (Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, 2024).

In 2023, he performed with members of the Wiener Philharmoniker – Maxim Brilinsky, Sebastian Breit, Filip Waldmann, and Stefan Gartmayer – and with the Arthur Grumiaux Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. In the same year, he also took part in the annual concert of the Church Conservatory at the Slovak Philharmonic.

As part of masterclasses with the world-renowned virtuoso Midori Gotō in Bratislava, he performed as a soloist with the Slovak Youth Orchestra under the direction of Marco Vlasák at the Large Concert Studio of Slovak Radio in Bratislava (2018).

He is the co-founder of The Echoes Ensemble and Cibula Chamber Orchestra, and in 2025, he won the gold prize with The Echoes Ensemble at the VIII Internationales Musikfest in Vienna.