Margret Köll is one of the world's leading players of the historical harp and performs worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player with various baroque ensembles and orchestras: As a permanent ensemble with Il Giardino Armonico and the Accademia Bizantina, as a guest soloist with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, B'Rock and Concerto Köln, among others. Her renowned chamber music partners are Luca Pianca, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Stefan Temmingh, Michele Pasotti, Benedikt Kristjánsson and Roberta Invernizzi. She has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Covent Garden, the Theater an der Wien, the Opéra Garnier in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. She is also a member of the Tyrolean neo-folk music jazz octet "Knoedel" and tours the world with them.
Margret Köll has taken part in numerous CD productions, radio recordings and tours, including with Cecilia Bartoli, Isabelle Faust, Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi, and has released seven of her own CDs to date: her first recording, "L'arpa di Partenope", with 17th-century Neapolitan music, was awarded the Diapason d'Or. Her solo CD "Silent Dance" with works by Dowland and Purcell was selected for the longlist of the German Record Critics' Award in 2023. Her latest recording "Wondrous Machine" (Accent) with concertos by Handel and Scottish tunes, accompanied by her ensemble Between the Strings, was released at the end of 2023.
One of her most memorable concert highlights was the opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, where Margret Köll performed as a duo with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Her most recent engagements include performances with her ensemble at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, duos with Benedikt Kristjánsson and Stefan Temmingh at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, as well as recitals and tours in the UK, Spain, Germany, Colombia and Japan. In her concerts, the musician regularly performs works by contemporary composers for historical harp, which she also commissions herself.
Margret Köll is the founder of Harfenlabor, an interdisciplinary platform for historical and contemporary performance practice on historical harps that aims to provide impetus for critical discourse and to inspire new performative and interpretative approaches. Since 2021, she has been organising the Harfenbiennale Innsbruck with Harfenlabor.