Starla Pöschl, BM
Biography
I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. I have a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. On coming to Vienna in 1996 to further my musical studies, I met and married an Austrian, and this has become home.
Languages have always held a certain fascination for me. Even in elementary school I loved studying English, learning vocabulary and diagramming sentences, it was my favorite subject. This was reinforced at home by parents who were very particular (especially mom!) about our grammar. Having a grasp of the grammatical structure of English helped tremendously in learning other languages. By the time I graduated from high school I had finished courses in Norwegian and French at a local community college, with honors in both. After finishing my degree in Boston, I studied German for a year before coming to Austria, and now it has become my second language. I can even understand Viennese, at least some of the time!
Over the years I have taught violin and English to both children and adults, and the similarities between learning a spoken language and the language of music have become more and more apparent. There is a great source of satisfaction in giving someone a love of either music or language.
My husband, Christopher, and I have our home in Brunn am Gebirge with our two children, David and Rebekah.