Hatto Beyerle (20 June 1933 – 16 October 2023) was a German-Austrian violist who played mainly as a chamber musician, conductor and academic teacher.
[1] He studied viola at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Ulrich Koch, violin with Ricardo Odnoposoff in Vienna, composition with Alfred Uhl, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky.
[1][2] In 1960 he was co-founder of the chamber orchestra Wiener Solisten[2][3] [4] with which he undertook numerous concert tours.
[3] He then moved to the same position at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover,[5] and from 1990 to 2004 he also taught at the City of Basel Music Academy.
[2] In 2004 Beyerle was the initiator of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA)[3] and artistic director of the Europäisches Kulturforum Grossraming in Austria.