Portuguese violist Miguel Erlich has recently been performing as soloist, chamber musician and in orchestra across Europe, America and the Middle East, in venues such as Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Berliner Philharmonie, Dubai Opera and NCPA Beijing.

Miguel has been solo viola of Ensemble Resonanz, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra among other orchestras, and is a frequent guest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

He has performed at festivals including Krzyżowa-Music, IMS Open Chamber Music, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, NUME, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival de Pâques, and the Alderney Chamber Music Festival.

He was also a founding member of Stravinstrio, which won 1st prize in Portugal’s national radio competition Prémio Jovens Músicos and the Concorso Internazionale Saverio Mercadante, among other awards. Stravinstrio has premiered works dedicated to the trio on radio and television.

Miguel studied with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, in the National Conservatory in Portugal with Anne Victorino D’Almeida and with António Pereira, and took part in masterclasses with Lawrence Power, Ettore Causa, Lars Anders Tomter, Gérard Caussé, Tatjana Masurenko, Leo De Neve, Pauline Sachse and Christophe Desjardins, among others.

He is currently based in Berlin.