Xaver Paul Thoma

In 1968, he began his studies at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, with Albert Dietrich violin / viola and chamber music, later with Professor Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn.

He studied music theory with Roland Weber and Eugen Werner Velte [de].

From 1972, he played many great works as a violist in the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and began to compose intensively.

He composed important works such as his first String Quartet (1972/75) or the "Reflexionen Eines Musikalischen Traumas" for large orchestra with solo viola (1979).

Kammersymphonie was written on the occasion of his composer portrait at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music.

In 1984, he was awarded the Lower Saxony Work Scholarship for writing down the score of the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra op.

After several years of chamber music in various formations, the Quintetto coll'arco developed with former colleagues of the Wahl-Quartet in 1999.