Ulrike Muellner
Ulrike Marianne Müllner (* 1983 or 1984 in Grieskirchen ) is an Austrian violinist who, parallel to her solo career, is best known as a former member of the Russkaja band .
She is also known by the stage name Mia Nova , with which she has been pursuing her solo career, which has been going on since 2015.
Live and act
Ulrike Müllner was born in Grieskirchen in the Hausruckviertel , grew up here with her brother Robert (* 1985), who would later become a saxophonist , and began playing the violin at the age of six after her parents had persuaded her to do so because it was where she lived gave an excellent violin teacher. She received her first violin on her seventh birthday. Müllner describes her parents, a now retired optician, and a likewise retired bank clerk, as musical; her mother is a choir singer . After her early musical education with Ingeborg Enzlmüller, she completed ten years of lessons with the Grieskirchen violin teacher Peter Gillmayr , who has already produced several professional musicians in the course of his career. Gillmayr also describes Müllner as an extreme supporter to whom she owes a lot.
As a result, Müllner began studying the violin at the University of Salzburg , which she broke off after a year to study chemistry at the University of Vienna . However, since she could not imagine her future working life in the laboratory, she also dropped out of this study and returned to music. She studied music education , German studies and instrumental pedagogy for teaching and after completing her studies switched to the music school Grieskirchen and also worked as a music teacher in Andorf , am in Rohrbach , in Ried im Innkreis , and at the BORG Grieskirchen.
After playing the classical violin had become too one-sided for her, Müllner attended jazz lessons and got an electric violin . She then performed with her electric violin at the side of DJs in discos , whereupon her first band projects emerged. Through one of these projects she came to Vienna, where she met the band Russkaja . After accompanying the band on a trial tour, she took over from Antonia-Alexa Georgiew as a violin player in 2012 and was a permanent member of the band from this year. Since then, she can also be seen every Tuesday in the late-night show Willkommen Österreich on ORF eins, recorded the day before . While her work with Russkaja mainly focuses on hard and rocky sounds with Ska and Balkan influences, as a solo artist she moves musically in a wide variety of genres. Mia Nova, as Müllner calls herself as a solo artist, relies on an acoustic violin paired with a distorted electric violin mixed with POP and EDM sound. Her music moves more towards the dance floor .
Müllner, who composes all of her songs herself, is often booked as a solo artist for appearances at events, festivals or gala events as a show act; this often also in connection with dancers, artists or other musicians. She came up with her stage name spontaneously after a DJ told her during her initial career as a “disco violinist” that he could not announce her as Uli and that she should quickly think of a stage name. So she derived Mia from her middle name Marianne and chose the surname Nova ( Latin for new (es) ). In the course of her solo career, which has been running since 2015, she has already released a handful of singles; most recently in 2018 together with Florian Ragendorfer the single Dancing Again . In autumn 2019 she left Russkaja to concentrate more on her solo career. In the band she was replaced by Lea-Sophie Fischer , who had previously worked with Fuchsteufelswild from 2016 to 2018 .
Today (as of: 2019) Müllner lives on the outskirts of Vienna , where she has her most appearances even when she is not on tour abroad with Russkaja. As a music teacher, she is no longer active today, mainly for reasons of time, but could imagine working as such again.
Works with RusskajaAlbums
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Mia Nova: released fourth single, Dancing Again , accessed April 18, 2019
- ↑ We warmly welcome our new violinist ? Lea-Sophie Fischer , accessed on January 23, 2020
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| SURNAME | Müllner, Ulrike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müllner, Ulrike Marianne; Müllner, U (l) li (first name); Nova, Mia (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 or 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grieskirchen , Upper Austria , Austria |