Dorothea Vogel was born in Switzerland and
studied with Rudolf Weber in Winterthur.
After winning first prize in the Swiss Youth
Competition, Dorothea won scholarships to study with Paul Coletti
at the Peabody Institute, USA, and with David Takeno and Micaela
Comberti at the Guildhall School in London, where she graduated
with the coveted Concert Recital Diploma. She was a founder member
of the Amar Quartet.
Dorothea has played the baroque viola in the
Kings Consort and Florilegium and has been both principal viola in
the Gustav Mahler Orchestra and the World Youth Orchestra in
Israel. She has appeared as a soloist with the Zurich
Kammerorchester and at London's Wigmore Hall.
Since 2001 she has been the violist in the Allegri
Quartet, combining it with the Primrose Piano Quartet (since 2015);
and spends the summers leading the viola section at Garsington
Opera.