Lorenz Karls was born in Vienna into an Austrian Swedish family and began playing the violin at age 4. To highlight some of his soloist appearances in the last seasons, should be mentioned his appearance at the Mozartwoche Salzburg in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation followed by concerts with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, WDR Funkhausorchester, Camerata Bern, Odense Symfonieorkester, Kremerata Baltica, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Milan.

Lorenz has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, among them seven top prizes from member competitions of “World Federation of Music Competitions” including both Mozart Competitions in Salzburg, Austria and Zhuhai, China.

Lorenz plays the G.B Guadagnini “ex-Bachmann” 1785 violin kindly loaned to him by the Stephan and Viktoria Schmidheiny Foundation.