Born 1970 in Lausanne, Régis Bringolf was trained first in Switzerland by Jean Piguet at the Conservatoire supérieur de Lausanne and by Patrick Genet in Freibourg, where he received a diplôme de virtuosité summa cum laude in 1990. There followed many years at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in the classes of Michael Schnitzler and Günter Pichler.

He won the Prix Gerber in Lausanne in 1978 and the Junesse Musicale Suisse first prize in 1985; later, he was awarded First Prize at the String Quartet Competition in Cremona, the European Chamber Music Prize and the Vienna Philharmonic Special Prize.

A soloist with various youth orchestras of the Suisse Romande and substitute concertmaster of the Lausanne Opera, Bringolf has been living in Vienna since 1990, where he is in great demand; he co-founded the Hugo Wolf Quartet in 1993 and the Vienna Alban Berg Ensemble in 2016.

Apart from his activities with the quartet, he has received many invitations from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata, and the Reihe; he has worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Ricardo Chailly and Sandor Vegh.