Elzbieta Sajka-Bachler was born in Kraków and is a graduate of Kraków Academy of Music. While still a student she substituted with Kraków Radio Symphony Orchestra. Elzbieta Sajka-Bachler also studied viola d’amore at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna and took part in numerous courses for chamber music and early music. She plays Baroque viola and works with many ensembles and orchestras in Austria and abroad, including the Barockorchester Johann Josef Fux, the Clemencic Consort, the Haydn Akademie, the Czech Ensemble Baroque, Solamente naturali (Bratislava), Ensemble Inégal (Prague). She is a member of Orchester 1756 and Ensemble 1756 (Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft), of Musica aeterna (Bratislava) and the Hofkapelle Esterházy (Fertöd). She has performed with, among others, the soloists Ronald Brautigam, Alexei Lubimov, Enrico Onofri and Andreas Staier and under conductors such as Paul McCreesh and Krzysztof Penderecki. She was a member of the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien and of the Concilium musicum Wien. She lives in Vienna and works in Austria and abroad as a teacher and lecturer at master classes. Elzbieta Sajka- Bachler is the founder and head of the Pandolfis Consort and, since June2013, head of the International Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Festival in Vienna.