Monika Uhler was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 1973.
She received her first violin lessons at the age of six at the Arthur Rubinstein Music School in Bygdoszcz where her teachers were Prof. Stanislaw Hajzer and then Prof. Zenon Brzewski.
She studied with Prof. Miroslaw Lawrynowicz at the Warsaw Music Academy.
From 1994 she taught violin at the Warsaw Academy. She attended master classes given by Zakhar Bron, Rugierro Ricci, Thomas Brandis and Norbert Brainin.
From 1995 to 2002 she was a member of the Cordes string quartet and a substitute in the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
She was a prizewinner at the International Violin Competition in Geneva (semi-final), the International Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań (5th Prize) and received the funding award from R. Ricci’s master class in Berlin.
She has been principal violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2003.