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Mozartinterpretationspreis
The Mozartinterpretationspreis (Mozart Interpretation Prize) was a music award named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, administered by the Mozartgemeinde Wien ( Vienna Mozart Society) and sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Culture. It was awarded from 1963 to 1998. Recipients The 35 recipients have been: * Wiener Trio, 1963 * Wiener Sängerknaben, 1964 * Weller Quartett, 1965 * Werner Krenn with Ralph Weikert, 1966 * Die Wiener Solisten, 1967 * Capella Academia der Wiener Akademie für Musik, 1968 * Heinz Medjimorec with Günter Pichler, 1969 * Rudolf Buchbinder, 1970 * Gerhard Zeller, 1971 * Agnes Grossman, 1972 * Rainer Küchl, 1973 * Chor und Orchester des BRG IX, 1974 * Franz Schubert-Quartett, 1975 * Peter Weber, 1976 * Regine Winkelmayer, 1977 * Michael Werba, 1978 * Christian Simonis, 1979 * Christian Altenburger, 1980 * Gabriele Fontana, 1981 * Karin Adam, 1982 * Igo Koch, 1983 * Hagen Quartet, 1984 * Elisabeth Schadler, 1985 * Arnold Schönberg Choir, 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schönberg Choir
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (german: Arnold Schoenberg Chor) is a Viennese/Austrian choir which was founded 1972 by Erwin Ortner, who is still its artistic director. The choir has a high reputation both among conductors and among critics and the musical scene in general. All members of the choir have broad experience and expertise in vocal music; most of them have graduated from or are currently studying at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. The choir is named after Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg. Repertoire The choir's repertoire covers a wide range from Renaissance to contemporary music, from ''a cappella'' works to large orchestral pieces and operas. The choir has worked with famous conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti and Lorin Maazel – to name only a few. Moreover, it has performed in opera productions such as Schubert's ''Fierrabras'' at the Vienna State Opera, Messiaen's ''Saint François d'Assise'' and Berio's Cronaca del luogo at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Till Fellner
Till Fellner (born 9 March 1972) is an Austrian pianist. Biography Till Fellner was born in Vienna and studied at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien with Helene Sedo-Stadler, and subsequently with Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg and Claus-Christian Schuster. He won first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland in 1993, and was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozart Society of Vienna in 1998. Fellner has played with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Manfred Honeck, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Jonathan Nott, Kirill Petrenko, and Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Scharinger
Anton Scharinger (born 5 March 1961 in Straning-Grafenberg Lower Austria) is an Austrian operatic bass-baritone and academic teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Life Scharinger first studied with Margarita Heppe in Vienna and graduated from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in 1984. As a student, he already distinguished himself as a concert singer. In 1981, he joined the Salzburger Landestheater, where he made his operatic debut as Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte''. His international career began with further Mozart roles, Papageno, Figaro (conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt) and Leporello in ''Don Giovanni''. He also expanded his repertoire with roles in unknown works, such as the Captain in Manfred Gurlitt's ''Wozzeck'' and Count Robinson in ''Il matrimonio segreto''. As a concert soloist, he has performed among others under Riccardo Chailly, William Christie, Christoph von Dohnányi, Antal Doráti, Bernard Haitink, Harnoncourt, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Vladar
Stefan Vladar (born in Vienna, 1965) is an Austrian pianist and conductor. Biography Stefan began piano lessons at the age of six, and in 1973 he began studies at the Vienna University for Music and Arts; Renate Kramer-Preisenhammer and Hans Petermandl were two of his teachers. In 1985 Vladar won Vienna's VII Ludwig van Beethoven piano competition. In 1992 he participated in '' My War Years'', a Canadian docudrama about Arnold Schoenberg and this composer's way to atonality. Vladar was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozartgemeinde Wien in 1994. In addition to his concert career he's been the Grosses Orchester Graz principal conductor since 2002 and since 2008 principal conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra The Vienna Chamber Orchestra (Wiener Kammer Orchester, or WKO) is an Austrian chamber orchestra based at the Vienna Konzerthaus. History The WKO was founded in 1946, and its first artistic directors were Franz Litschauer, Heinrich Hollreiser, Pa .... Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Pichler
Günter Pichler (born 9 September 1940) is an Austrian violinist, teacher and conductor. He was the 1st violin in the Alban Berg Quartett. Biography Günter Pichler was born and raised in Kufstein, Tyrol, Austria.Nach Altmann, W.: ''Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon'', 15. Aufl.: 2. T. He was accepted at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna in 1955. He joined the Vienna Symphony as concertmaster under Wolfgang Sawallisch at the age of 18. At 21, he was made concertmaster by the Vienna Philharmonic thanks to a tie-breaking vote on his appointment by conductor Herbert von Karajan. From 1963 to 2009 he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna as a professor, from 1993 to 2012 he was a professor at Cologne University of Music. In 2007 he was appointed head of the department for chamber music at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. In addition he teaches at several summer academies, including Pro Quartet Paris, Accademia Chighian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Buchbinder
Rudolf Buchbinder (born 1 December 1946, Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia) is an Austrian classical pianist. Biography Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965, he made a tour of North and South Americas. In 1966 he won a special prize awarded at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Subsequently he has toured with the Vienna Philharmonic and appeared as soloist around the world. He has also taught piano at the Basel Academy of Music. For the Teldec label he has recorded the complete keyboard music of Joseph Haydn, all Mozart's major works for piano, all the Beethoven piano sonatas and variations, and both Brahms piano concertos with Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. With János Starker, he recorded memorable performances of works for cello and piano by Beethoven and Brahms. He has twice recorded the Beethoven Piano Concertos conducting from the keyboard, first with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Küchl
Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, 25 August 1950. Background He started to play the violin at the age of 11, and was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, at the age of 14, where he studied with Franz Samohyl. From 1971 to 2016 he was concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and also of the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. As a soloist he has worked with some of the world's most famous orchestras and conductors, such as Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Carlos Kleiber,Valery Gergiev, and Simon Rattle. In 1973 he founded the string quartet ''Küchl Quartett'' which is now known as the ''Wiener Musikverein Quartett''. Since 1976, the quartet has its own concert series at the Brahmssaal of the Musikverein Vienna. Rainer Küchl is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 1982. Among his pupils were Wolfgang David and Joji H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Kirchschlager
Angelika Kirchschlager (born 24 November 1965, Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer. Career Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. Her first engagements were at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Graz Opera. Kirchschlager won 1st Prize together with Morenike Fadayomi in Wien's international Operncafé HArtauer-COmpetition and third prize in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition both in 1991. Her stage debut was in Graz in 1993 as Octavian (''Der Rosenkavalier''). In 1993, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera, and made her debut there as Cherubino (''The Marriage of Figaro''). Also in 1993, she was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozart Society of Vienna. In 2002, Kirchschlager sang the role of Sophie in the world première of Nicholas Maw' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Moser
Barbara N. Moser (born 1970) is an Austrian concert pianist. Life Born in Vienna, one of the youngest students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at the age of five, she received her training with Heinz Medjimorec and subsequently with Greta Kraus in Toronto, Boris Bloch in Essen and Oleg Maisenberg, Roland Keller and Rudolf Buchbinder in Vienna. In addition to her activities as a soloist and guest of well-known orchestras under renowned conductors, Moser devotes herself to chamber music, often performing with members of the Vienna Philharmonic. She is also interested in working with singers, and has accompanied Annette Dasch, Natalie Dessay, Mara Zampieri, Placido Domingo, Adrian Eröd, Wolfgang Holzmair, Anton Scharinger, Michael Schade, Mathias Zachariassen and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir among others. She has conducted seminars on outstanding composers at the European Forum Alpbach and the , she gives master classes, acts as a juror at competitions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagen Quartet
The Hagen Quartet is an Austrian string quartet founded in 1981 by four siblings, Lukas, Angelika (first replaced by Annette Bik, who was then replaced by Rainer Schmidt in 1987), Veronika and Clemens, in Salzburg. The quartet members are teachers and mentors at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik Basel. The ensemble made its Salzburg Festival debut in 1984. The complete recordings of the Mozart string quartets were released in 2006. In the 2012–2013 season, the Hagen Quartet performed the complete Beethoven cycle in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Salzburg and Vienna. They performed, between December 2013 and August 2017, on the four famous Stradivarius instruments played previously by the Paganini Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet, and the Tokyo String Quartet, respectively. Those instruments are now being played by the Quartetto di Cremona. Awards * 1981 Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Prize of the Jury, Audience Prize * 1982 Portsmouth Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Fontana
Gabriele Fontana (b. 1958 Innsbruck) is an Austrian operatic soprano. Biography Fontana made her professional opera debut in 1980 as Pamina in ''Die Zauberflöte'' with Oper Frankfurt. She joined the Hamburg State Opera in 1982 where she sang Pamina, Konstanze in ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', Sophie in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' and the role of Sophie Scholl in the world premiere of Udo Zimmermann's '' Weisse Rose''; the latter of which she reprised and recorded two years later at the Vienna State Opera. Since then Fontana has been a regular presence at the world's best opera houses making appearances in Hannover, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Trieste, Geneva, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York. She has also been a regular performer at the Salzburg Festival and has made appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival, Vienna Festival, the Bregenzer Festspiele, the London Proms, Carinthischer Sommer, Festival di Carpi, Prague Spring Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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