Currently based in Vienna, studied classical and jazz saxophone at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, she then went on to study jazz composition at the Anton Bruckner private university in Linz, and jazz theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Falb travelled on an Erasmus year to the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin (Gebhard Ullmann, Hayden Chisholm), and went on to complete  further studies in  New York (Steve Lehman, Chris Potter, Ellery Eskelin, Hal Crook, etc) and Bern, Switzerland (Django Bates).
 

Viola Falb founded her first band FALB FICTION shortly after her studies, which enabled her to express and develop her compositional voice. The band is characterised by the intensity of the improvisations and its compelling interplay between the musicians. The band is an audience favourite as well, receiving great reviews from across the jazz press, and in 2006 FALB FICTION was voted “European Newcomer of the Year”.

"... As a composer, Falb is in a class of her own. Her compositions never seem too controlled, but her pieces are always based on clear ideas and structures, from which expressive moments emerge." (Falter)

Falb's interests have always been across a broad musical spectrum, and this can be heard in her many projects as band leader, but also her work as an ensemble member. Since the start of her career, Falb has been playing and composing in the saxophone quartet PHOEN, she also founded the ‘pop-hop’ duo Kitsch & Glory, where she plays accordion and bass clarinet. Falb also immerses herself in the world of improvised music with TRIP-LING and FALB | HOLUB | SATZINGER, and with FS:EINS, she performs an avant-garde concert programme with electronic artist Bernd Satzinger. She also explores her love of chamber music with FALB / TODOROVSKI / NOVAK.

Falb's musical world has always included composition, at the start of her career this meant composing mostly for her jazz quartet and saxophone quartet, but her composition work has since expanded to include contemporary orchestral music, opera and chamber music. In 2020 she was awarded the “Staatsstipendium für Komposition des Bundesministeriums” (Austrian yearly composition award) and in 2022 the “Arbeitsstipendium der Stadt Wien” (Viennese yearly composition Stipend).