Valerie Fritz, an Austrian musician, studies violoncello at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Clemens Hagen and Giovanni Gnocchi. As a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, as well as a substitute in the Camerata Salzburg and the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, Valerie has participated in several concert tours throughout Europe and worked with conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda, Matthias Pintscher and Péter Eötvös.

Her passion for contemporary music led her to the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, the Impuls Academy in Graz and the IEMA Academy at Klangspuren Schwaz. In addition to her regular work with the Austrian Ensemble for New Music and the New Art an Music Ensemble Salzburg, Valerie also curates the concert series nɔɪz//Elektrorauschen in Innsbruck, which focuses on electroacoustic music.

Valerie is a winner of the Concorso Enrico Mainardi, a scholarship holder of the Académie Jaroussky in Paris and winner of the Berlin Prize for Young Artists 2021.