Carola Schaal (born 1982, Tübingen, Germany) studied clarinet in Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. She completed her Master’s Degree with Professor Alexander Bachl at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2009. She also attends master classes and participates in performance workshops. Concert tours take her to China, the USA, Chile and Mexico.

Carola Schaal was scholarship holder of the Anni-Taube-Foundation Hamburg and the DOMS-Foundation Basel. She recently gave a masterclass at the XIV. Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea‘/Santiago de Chile. She is a founding member of Decoder, a Hamburg based ensemble for new music. Carola Schaal is interested in classical chamber music and orchestra as well as music theatre. But particularly she is excited by the newest stylistic ideas of contemporary music as well as the theatrical elements of performance. Carola Schaal is a current scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. Photo: © Lutz Nikolaus Kratzer http://decoder-ensemble.de/