born in Vienna, he received his musical and technical education and received his diploma with honors. A took scholarship him to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. There he was student of Valery Klimov and studied in the tradition of David Oistrakh and qualified also with honors.

He also studied in Masterclasses with Max Rostal, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Sandor Vegh, Gidon Kremer, Andre Gertler and Alexander Arenkov. He won several prizes at national and international competitions. Since that time Gernot Winischhofer gives guest performances at a lot of festivals as Budapest, Echternach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ossiach, Prague, Salzburg, Vienna and all over the world.

Soloist and chamber music partner of Igor Oistrach, Josef Suk, Pavel Gililov, Tanja Grindenko, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura Skoda, Hans Kann, Franz Bartolomey, Raner Honeck and others.

He performed with Orchestras like Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg in the Big Festival Hall, Hermitage Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg and Meran Festival, Nürnberg-, Slovak-, Prague-Philharmonic Orchestras, with Moscow Chamberorchestra, Camerata St. Petersburg, Slovak, Prague, Lithovian, Prague, Vienna-Chamberorchestra, Athens-Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors as Christian Thielemann, Saulius Sondeckis, Sergiu Comissiona and others.

He is Founder of Trio di Vienna, Oistrachensemble, Vienna Piano Quintet with the concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Vienna. Tours through Austria, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Hungaria, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, USA, Japan, Hong Kong and others as soloist with orchestras and in chamber music ensembles.

1992-2014 Professor at the Vienna State Conservatory. Since 1987 he is the artistic director of the East-West Music Festival. Recordings on radio, TV and CD. Jury of competitions. He plays the violin of Paolo Maggini/Gasparo da Salo, the “Ole Bull” built in 1600.